Virta Health is in the diabetes reversal business. It’s a medical group that for a decade has been aggressively coaching people with diabetes and cardiometabolic disease to radically change their eating habits–basically to eat the right things for them, to saity. Some how in a nation obsessed with processed food and carbs they have succeeded…
Success requires orchestrating an end-to-end experience that connects manufacturing, logistics, clinical sites, payers, and patients seamlessly. The companies that treat this orchestration as a strategic competency, rather than just operational logistics, will be best positioned to scale. The post Scaling Radioligand Therapy: 3 Essential Strategies From Inside The Ecosystem appeared first on MedCity News.
Healthcare affordability continues to decline as patients struggle with rising healthcare costs. Roughly half of U.S. adults report struggling to pay their medical bills. Patients are also frustrated with the lack of cost transparency, inaccurate estimates and confusion around what insurance covers and what’s owed out of pocket. When there’s a lack of understanding about…
Volpara Health CEO Teri Thomas thinks AI will shape the future of radiology. This belief is a major reason why Volpara combined with South Korean AI company Lunit earlier this year, she said. The post Why One CEO Is Excited About Breast Imaging AI appeared first on MedCity News.
Families filed nearly 23,000 federal civil rights complaints against schools in fiscal 2024, the highest number ever. That includes about 8,400 cases involving allegations of discrimination against students with disabilities, who have struggled to recover academically from the pandemic. Under federal law, public schools must provide children with disabilities a “free appropriate public education,” to…
The average Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace deductible experienced the steepest increase in history—growing by 37% or over $1,000, from $2,759 in 2025 to $3,786 in 2026 as enhanced premium tax credits expired, according to a new KFF analysis. After the enhanced tax credits ended, many Marketplace shoppers shifted toward lower-premium, higher-deductible plans.
A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area. The post Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall? appeared first…
Sanofi’s Vicebio acquisition brings technology for developing vaccine combinations for multiple pathogens, such as RSV and hMPV. The deal complements an existing partnership with Novavax that encompasses R&D of combination vaccines for Covid-19 and flu. The post Sanofi Extends Respiratory Vaccines Reach With $1.15B Acquisition of Clinical-Stage Vicebio appeared first on MedCity News.
To better understand how states are preparing for Medicaid work requirements, states were asked to discuss anticipated challenges to implementing work requirements by the end of 2026, including related system changes and data matching.
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.