5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Family Planning
Amid debates to limit federal Medicaid support, this brief presents five facts to know about Medicaid’s role for family planning.
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Which Platform of Platforms (UDHP) is Right for your Health System? A Market Analysis
Neil Jennings Vince Kuraitis By NEIL JENNINGS & VINCE KURAITIS This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Platforming Healthcare — The Long View In previous posts in this series, we have covered the definitions of Unified Digital Health platforms and whether “EHRs can become UDHPs.” In this follow-on post, we’ll talk through the requirements for…
Food is Medicine?
Everyone knows that eating healthy is good for your health. But should we think of food as a type of medicine? A paper by Ridberg et al. (2025) examines public perceptions of different interventions to get people to eat better to improve their health. Health systems are increasingly deploying Food Is Medicine interventions, which incorporate…
Future of Health Tech: From Structured Data to Scalable AI [Video]
[Sponsored] Executives from Sellers Dorsey and eFax®by Consensus join MedCity News and share their insights impacting the healthcare industry. The post Future of Health Tech: From Structured Data to Scalable AI [Video] appeared first on MedCity News.
How Will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Affect the ACA, Medicaid, and the Uninsured Rate?
This analysis details the number of people who would become uninsured from policy changes in the ACA Marketplaces and Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, taken together, these changes will result in 16 million more uninsured people in the year 2034 than would otherwise be the case.
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Potential Implications of the Election
Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have taken widely different stances and approaches on recognizing and addressing racial and ethnic disparities. These differences can be seen across areas of health care, including health coverage, reproductive and maternal health, and immigrant health and well-being and are likely to have important implications for future efforts to…
The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus
‘No Longer Based on Facts or Truth’ Sylvia Chou, 51, Maryland Program director, National Cancer Institute Sylvia Chou specializes in communication between patients and their health care providers, and social media’s role in public health. She joined the federal government in 2007 as a fellow and became a civil servant in 2010. She left her…
Acquisition to Enhance McKesson’s Oncology Platform
McKesson is paying $2.49 billion in cash for a controlling interest in Florida Cancer Specialists’ management services organization
5 Key Facts About Medicaid Coverage for People Living in Rural Areas
This brief presents five key facts about Medicaid coverage among individuals living in rural areas. It draws on recent data to describe enrollment patterns, differences by state Medicaid expansion status, characteristics of the rural Medicaid population, and patterns of health care use among enrollees.
Making Insurance Cover IVF Could Actually Reduce Access
President Trump’s plan to fix IVF might look bold in a headline. In reality, it doesn’t create a single new embryology lab. It doesn’t hire one more specialist. It won’t change the fact that right now, only people with plenty of money can afford IVF, and throwing subsidies at a market that’s already bottlenecked only…