By MIKE MAGEE “The technological leaps of the 1900s — microelectronics, antibiotics, chemotherapy, liquid-fueled rockets, Earth-observing satellites, lasers, LED lights, disease-resistant seeds and so forth — derived from science. But these technologies also spent years being improved, tweaked, recombined and modified to make them achieve the scale and impact necessary for innovations.” Jon Gertner, author of “The Idea…
Since deploying the system, Gleason says, Prisma has seen improvements in team engagement, safety culture, and quality outcomes
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A paper in Value in Health by Grueger, Martin and Sullivan (2025) provides some lessons. Together with widespread digitalization of drug compendia (price lists), IRP led to a rapid convergence of list prices across Europe. Although prices often spread ±50% from the average price for drugs first launched in the EU in 1997, this narrowed…
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration’s new immigration detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This posting combined Donald Trump’s longtime passion to use the offshore base to move “some bad dudes”…
The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses is the latest blow to national defense, former health security officials said. They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic. “The administration’s actions are gutting our deterrence from…
In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis limits her mobility, necessitating the walkers and wheelchairs and considerable help from her husband, Dennis, who…
El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, que aspira a presentarse en las elecciones presidenciales, ha enfurecido tanto a demócratas como a republicanos por su posición sobre la atención médica para los inmigrantes en su estado. La situación revela el delicado camino político que tiene por delante. Por segundo año, el demócrata pidió a los legisladores…
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed a mysterious illness in Congo that has claimed dozens of lives on CBS’ “CBS Mornings” on Feb. 26. Click here to watch Gounder on “CBS Mornings” KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed moves by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F….