This volume covers recent claims about COVID vaccine safety after a new study describes a rare condition it calls “post-vaccination syndrome” (PVS). It also investigates the false claim that ivermectin can treat cancer and highlights the re-emergence of concerns online about Gardasil, and its alleged mortality rate.
Hospitals’ flat revenues are clashing with rising costs and excessive reimbursement denials from payers, said Rod Hanners, CEO of Keck Medicine of USC. He warned that policy efforts focused solely on limiting provider payments ignore the larger issue of unchecked profits among payers, drugmakers and other healthcare industry players. The post Why Hospitals Are Losing…
Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon [it].” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on “Meet the Press,” Sept. 15 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sept. 15 told viewers of NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump built up the Affordable Care Act, even though Trump could…
The inventory is already built. The audience is already there. The problem is what the channel can prove — and that problem is solvable. The post Why Clinical Digital Out-of-Home Displays Are Healthcare’s Most Untapped Advertising Opportunity appeared first on MedCity News.
CEO Toyin Ajayi, M.D., says Homeward’s rural expertise complements Cityblock’s urban focus
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly pledged to protect and improve health services for Native Americans — whether speaking during his late-January Senate confirmation hearing or an April trip to Arizona, where he met with tribal leaders. In some ways, he has. When layoffs were set to hit the Indian…
As organizations dive further into their datasets and explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help reveal new insights, one thing must remain at the forefront: data quality. The post Data-Driven Transformation: The Role of Data Quality in Accelerating Healthcare Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
California public school teacher Mollie Blustein planned her pregnancy so that her daughter would arrive during summer break. But when the elementary school teacher went into premature labor and delivered her baby two weeks before the end of school, she faced another stressor: a huge pay cut. The majority of California’s roughly 300,000 teachers don’t…
Healthcare’s next transformation will not come from algorithms that try to replace doctors but from infrastructure that connects their tools. The post Healthcare’s AI Illusion: Why Integration, Not Algorithms, Will Define the Next Decade appeared first on MedCity News.
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Imbalance of Power — And Healthcare Why can members of Congress remain on full taxpayer-funded salaries during prolonged medical absences while millions of working Americans cannot afford to get sick? (Kennedy,…