Sanford Health is embedding AI into its EHR to turn vast patient data into actionable insights. Tools like a chronic kidney disease module and a personalized colon cancer screening model are helping clinicians catch disease earlier and tailor care to individual patients, explained Jeremy Cauwels, the health system’s chief medical officer. The post How Sanford…
Report reflects that the data exchange capabilities of behavioral health and social service providers left out of HITECH funding lag significantly behind traditional healthcare organizations
[Sponsored] Body image struggles can quietly shape how you move through the world. The post Where to Find Highly Rated Therapists for Body Image Struggles appeared first on MedCity News.
Currently available therapies for Hunter syndrome don’t cross the blood-brain barrier to address cognitive symptoms of the inherited enzyme deficiency. Denali Therapeutics’ technology gets its drug across the protective membrane, and the biotech plans to seek accelerated FDA approval in this rare disease. The post Denali’s Data in Rare Enzyme Deficiency Keep It on Pace…
Covid’s rampage through the country’s nursing homes killed more than 172,000 residents and spurred the biggest industry reform in decades: a mandate that homes employ a minimum number of nurses. But with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the industry is ramping up pressure to kill that requirement before it takes effect, leaving…
Black people in the U.S. have been disproportionately affected by HIV since the epidemic’s beginning, and that disparity has deepened over time. Black people account for more new HIV diagnoses, people estimated to be living with HIV, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. This fact sheet provides an overview of…
[Sponsored] In an interview, Jamie Benton, vice president of HR at Rollins, talked about how he led a shift in the company’s health benefits strategy, producing $29 million in savings over a five-year period. The post Health Plan Transformation: HR Exec Shares How and Why an Employer Changed Its Approach to Healthcare appeared first on…
EndPoints notes that the Most Favored Nation Executive Order has led some large pharmaceutical firms to make two changes: (i) start charging Europeans the same price as the US, and (ii) start selling more products direct to consumer (a.k.a. ‘pharm to table‘) AbbVie, Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim each joined their peers in making price-related concessions…
Novartis’s alliance with Unnatural Products is pursuing next-generation peptide drugs for cardiovascular disease. The startup already has drug R&D alliances with BridgeBio Pharma, Merck, and Argenx. The post Novartis Commits $100M to Startup With Tech That Brings Peptides to Undruggable Targets appeared first on MedCity News.
The AI revolution is already here — but what does it mean for patients, clinicians, and health care industry leaders? Eric Larsen, veteran health care strategist and longtime advisor to CEOs across the industry, joins host Chip Kahn for a discussion about why the U.S. health care industry is uniquely exposed to AI-driven disruption and…