[Sponsored] Make Biotech Showcase your homebase during the busiest week in healthcare. The event convenes 3,200 life science leaders, including 1,200+ investors and over 340 presenting companies, for three days of breakthrough innovation, investment opportunities and strategic collaborations. The post Biotech Showcase™: Where Innovation Meets Investment and Partnerships appeared first on MedCity News.
In my latest Guest Column in The Evidence Base, II am joined by my colleague Tiago Beck as we examine how global pricing reforms are reshaping the European pharmaceutical landscape. Building on their session at ISPOR Europe 2025, the column explores the growing tension between EU access ambitions and international policy pressures – offering a…
As the industry continues to pour money into AI and other emerging technologies, a more disciplined era of healthcare technology investment is taking shape. The post The Hidden Million-Dollar Problem Lurking in Hospital Operations appeared first on MedCity News.
Funding from rural health transformation program will help hospitals prepare for participation in the state’s AHEAD Hospital Global Budget Model
This brief summarizes the “test-negative” methodology for estimating the effectiveness of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, noting its strengths and potential limitations. This is the design is used in a CDC-led COVID-19 vaccine study that HHS decided not to publish.
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who was tapped last week by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, called fluoride an “industrial waste” and linked it to cancer and other diseases and disorders while campaigning for Trump….
If you are a payer or a policymaker, should you except the results of a global clinical trial or require additional evidence that a drug works in your country. There are a few options to consider. Delay approval until local confirmatory trial. Approach enacted in several Asian countries (see Habr et al. 2024). While this…
Incorporating PbD into the software development process of EHR systems presents a strategy to protect information starting from the initial stages of development and, throughout the entire lifecycle of the software. The post Boosting HIPAA Compliance in EHR Systems with Privacy-by-Design appeared first on MedCity News.
New research found that most healthcare CFOs anticipate minimal financial gains this year due to high labor costs and insufficient payer rates. While providers are leveraging more data to improve financial planning, persistent challenges like wage pressures, recruiting difficulties and payers’ increasing use of technology to deny claims continue to strain margins. The post Labor…
Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do surgeries or deliver babies. The small 24-hour emergency room is overseen by two full-time doctors. CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding physicians for a rural area…