Cedar Evolves Platform as Patient Financial Pressures Increase
Florian Otto, CEO and co-founder of Cedar, says the company initially focused on transparency and convenience, but now also addresses affordability for patients
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In Hepatitis B Vaccine Debate, CDC Panel Sidesteps Key Exposure Risk
The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children. This comes despite a failed attempt to do so at the most recent meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Both President Donald Trump and some…
Tufts-CEVR HEOR Leaders Survey
How will HEOR leaders respond to recent policy changes? A survey from Tufts and the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) provides the answer. About 2/3 of the n=57 respondents were Head of their HEOR department and the remaining 1/3 had some other senior level HEOR role. Three key topic…
Healthcare Economist Weekly Reader
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From Close Calls to Safer Systems: Rethinking Near Miss Reporting in Healthcare
To truly drive safety at scale, healthcare organizations will have to look beyond just adverse events and better leverage insights from one of the most valuable, but often underutilized, sources of safety data: near misses. The post From Close Calls to Safer Systems: Rethinking Near Miss Reporting in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
What Do Consumers and AI Think Of Omada Health?
Omada Health is a respected health tech company but what do customers see it? A flesh and blood and an AI analysis follows. The post What Do Consumers and AI Think Of Omada Health? appeared first on MedCity News.
MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Chat With AWS Chief Medical Officer Rowland Illing
Dr. Rowland Illing explained how life science companies and health systems are leveraing AWS HealthLake to transform healthcare. The post MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Chat With AWS Chief Medical Officer Rowland Illing appeared first on MedCity News.
On the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship
“I will maintain that there is no comparably important question in economics, because this is the question of human progress. This is the question of human wellbeing over millennia. Everything else about resource allocation, about policy, about macro…everything else is a footnote to this larger question of how new things come into being and how…
Nearly 7,000 US Healthcare Devices & Records Are Exposed to the Public Internet, Research Shows
New research shows that there are more than 14,000 unique IP addresses across the globe exposing patients’ potentially sensitive medical information on the public internet. Nearly half of these exposures are in the U.S. The post Nearly 7,000 US Healthcare Devices & Records Are Exposed to the Public Internet, Research Shows appeared first on MedCity…
How LG Is Moving Into Clinical Workflows
As it deepens its push into healthcare, LG is developing more tools and workstations aimed at supporting clinical workflows. National sales leader Jim Salamon said the company’s innovations are designed around clinician needs, such as the desire for more lifelike color representation and lightweight displays that can be set up easily for home use. The…