“Everybody can get” the covid-19 vaccine. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 4 in a Senate Finance Committee hearing When health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, several senators criticized him for restricting the covid-19 shots after promising in November he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines.” “Did…
Technology alone is not the answer to the capacity crisis facing healthcare. But when thoughtfully integrated into care delivery operations, digital tools can help healthcare organizations rebalance workloads and stabilize patient access. The post Repurpose, Don’t Replace: Three Ways Digital Agents Are Improving Phone Access appeared first on MedCity News.
HarmonyCares’ Will Robinson outlines how high-needs ACOs helped CMS identify and address huge spikes in wound care spending
Nearly 90% of babies who had to be hospitalized with covid-19 had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings appear in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Babies too young to be vaccinated had the highest…
Early experience and comfort with AI benefits everyone. Nurses who understand how to work alongside technology are better equipped to deliver high-quality care, adapt to new systems, and navigate increasingly complex clinical environments. The post AI is Changing Nursing Education and Raising New Graduate Expectations appeared first on MedCity News.
Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he told Romero, and agents…
From the CMS document “Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Selected Drugs for Initial Price Applicability Year 2027“: On January 17, 2025, CMS announced the selection of the below list of 15 drugs covered under Medicare Part D for the second cycle of negotiations (initial price applicability year 2027), based on total gross covered prescription drug…
What clinicians really need today is comprehensive support to offload routine tasks. They need intelligent systems that can proactively highlight relevant patient history before appointments, flag care gaps, and automatically queue up appropriate screening reminders or preventive care protocols. The post I Didn’t Dedicate My Career to Medicine to Manage Paperwork — And AI Scribes…
Eli Lilly’s retatrutide set a high mark in weight loss for obesity drugs, but with clinical trial results that show some new side effects. More detailed data from the Phase 3 study are scheduled for presentation next month during the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions meeting. The post Eli Lilly’s Triple Combo Obesity Drug Tops…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to make health care more accessible and affordable for all Californians. More than a million California…