Heather Cox, President of Insights & Empowerment at Zelis, talked about the company’s care coordination tools with MedCity News Reporter Katie Adams. The post MedCity Pivot Podcast: Putting a Human Touch on Healthcare Navigation and Coordination appeared first on MedCity News.
While hospitals excel at inventorying connected devices, the real challenge lies in translating visibility into actionable security measures. Risk prioritization based on device function and behavior enables targeted responses, making segmentation policies more effective and sustainable over time.
Every clinical encounter must be viewed as a medication reconciliation opportunity and primary care physicians are the coordinators-in-chief. The post How Care Transitions Complicate Medication Management — and How to Fix Them appeared first on MedCity News.
ZEM Life is developing a smartwatch that can deliver Narcan to combat a fentanyl overdose. The post How One Company Aims to Save Lives with Its Smartwatch appeared first on MedCity News.
Even the most promising medical advancements struggle to take off in real-world settings without clinician buy-in. Here are some key factors that affect clinician adoption and ways healthtech companies can better position their innovations for success. The post Clinician Adoption: How HealthTech Can Overcome Key Barriers appeared first on MedCity News.
KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio’s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25. Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on Insight With Vicki Gonzalez. Read Boyd-Barrett’s “‘I Can’t Tell You’:…
Novo Nordisk’s new Denmark site will produce drugs for rare diseases, such as hemophilias. Separately, the pharma giant said all regulatory conditions have been met for Novo Holdings’ acquisition of Catalent, which will bring to Novo Nordisk three manufacturing sites for GLP-1 medications. The post Novo Nordisk Adds to Manufacturing Capacity, Pumping Billions Into New…
AmplifyMD raised a $20 million Series B round for its AI-driven virtual specialty care platform and physician network. Memorial Hermann Health System, both a customer and investor, uses the platform to fill specialty gaps and improve workflows. The post AmplifyMD Snags $20M to Help Hospitals Scale Virtual Specialty Care appeared first on MedCity News.
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 can we characterize the epidemiology and health care resource utilization of Americans with schizophrenia? This is the question a new paper in JMCP by Parks et al. (2026) aims to answer among patients enrolled in Medicaid. The authors use Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) Analytic Files from 2016 to 2022 and find that:…