Epic Alums Launching Behavioral Health EHR
ProsperityEHR execs discuss the acquisition that is serving as the foundation for their EHR startup in behavioral health
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A Centenarian Thrives Living Alone, Active and Engaged
“The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew — on her own — in a one-bedroom apartment in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. Fourteen years later, Jaffe, now 102, still lives…
An Ice Rink To Fight Opioid Crisis: Drug-Free Fun vs. Misuse of Settlement Cash
A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink. That amount wasn’t enough to solve the county’s troubles, but it could have bought 333 kits of Narcan, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses. Instead,…
How Lifepoint Health Is Addressing Incidental Findings at Enterprise Scale
Using Eon’s AI platform. Lifepoint says it has identified more than 100,000 high-risk abnormalities and delivered a 36% improvement in early-stage cancer diagnoses
What is HEMA?
The Pink Sheet reports on a new international health technology assessment (HTA) body: Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA). The Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA) is a new, independent group of health technology assessment agencies from the US, England and Canada that will work together to develop recommendations on adopting novel health economic methods…
Stuck in the Middle
By KIM BELLARD Even before the war – oops: special operation, excursion, or whatever your preferred term is – with Iran started, people were complaining about how expensive things are. Home ownership for first time buyers seems out of reach. Sure, egg prices may be down from the late stages of the Biden Administration (thank…
A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal
One family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just found out their health plan’s deductible will jump from $800 to $20,000 next year. About 200 miles north, in Maryland, another household learned they’ll pay $500 more monthly to insure their brood in 2026. And thousands of people in Idaho were greeted with insurance rates that’ll cost, on…
April 24 Virtual Event: Understanding Fraud and Abuse in Medicaid
As Congress considers ways to help pay for extending tax cuts, some lawmakers have suggested that hundreds of billions of dollars in federal savings could be achieved by addressing fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid program. They often cite data about improper payments in Medicaid, which accounted for 5.1 percent of total Medicaid outlays…More
The Women’s Health Market Is Poised to Reach $600B by 2030. That’s if ‘We Do Nothing’
A PwC report finds that women’s health is evolving into a much larger, high-growth market as investment expands beyond reproductive care, though it remains underfunded and under-researched. The post The Women’s Health Market Is Poised to Reach $600B by 2030. That’s if ‘We Do Nothing’ appeared first on MedCity News.
Will HHS Enhance or Stall the Promise of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare?
By STEVEN ZECOLA In its Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (V.3), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) acknowledges that: “For too long, our Department has been bogged down by bureaucracy and busy work.” HHS promises that it will accelerate artificial intelligence (“AI”) innovation, including “accelerating drug and biologic approvals at the FDA.” History shows…