What were the most popular posts on Healthcare Economist this year? Here are the top 10 in descending order: Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best PracticesThe world is relying on the United States to get value-based drug pricing rightWhy is the market design for innovative…
The decline in cognitive health, especially that leading to Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases, is one of the most feared conditions by patients and their families. It’s also one of the most expensive. But if we can predict it early there are things we can do to prevent or ameliorate it. The issue has been…
The serial entrepreneur and CEO of Transcarent has dismissed care navigation companies in the past. What led him to buy Accolade, the biggest — though struggling — name in navigation? The post Is Glen Tullman a Hypocrite or a Victim of the System He Aimed to Disrupt? appeared first on MedCity News.
HHS awarded $77 million in SAMHSA grants for substance use prevention and treatment, mental health, suicide prevention and crisis services. The post HHS Provides $77M in Grants for Substance Use Prevention, Mental Health appeared first on MedCity News.
Autonomous coding startup Nym raised $47 million. The New York City-based company has 21 provider customers, including Geisinger and Ochsner Health. The post Nym Rakes In $47M for Autonomous Coding Engine appeared first on MedCity News.
Angel Foster had a backup plan. It was the first weekend in May. A federal appeals court had just made it illegal to mail mifepristone, a pill that’s part of the most widely used abortion method in the U.S. But Foster, a doctor who specializes in reproductive health, was prepared. As leader of the Massachusetts…
ADAIR, Iowa — The blue-and-white highway sign for the eastbound rest stop near here displays more than the standard icon of a person in a wheelchair, indicating facilities are accessible to people who can’t walk. The sign also shows a person standing behind a horizontal rectangle, preparing to perform a task. The second icon signals…
These products have yet to offer treatment solutions designed to get users from their current health state to a desired future health state. This creates a massive, untapped opening for tools that move people from awareness to action in a clinically meaningful way, without the cost and access barriers of engaging the healthcare system or requiring…
KFF Health News Nevada correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed the potential impact of Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals on KNPR’s “State of Nevada” on July 17. Click here to hear Orozco Rodriguez on “State of Nevada.” Read Orozco Rodriguez’s “‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say.” KFF Health News chief Washington…
In this JAMA Health Forum post, Executive Vice President Larry Levitt explores why the incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are likely to pursue budget cuts in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and why such efforts are likely to boost the number of uninsured Americans.