Access to care isn’t enough. Healthcare organizations need to build trust in order to reach underserved communities, experts said on a recent panel. The post How Can Healthcare Organizations Earn Trust with Marginalized Communities? appeared first on MedCity News.
Cybersecurity and data protection in healthcare is only as strong as its weakest crack. Medical device makers, pharmaceutical firms, health IT, privacy equity, research organizations, and consolidated systems all play a role in vulnerabilities, and their shortcomings can ripple outward, endangering patient data and trust. The post The Hidden Cracks in Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem appeared…
Newly launched Pfizer drugs will be priced at parity to prices in comparable developed nations, according to the most-favored nation pricing agreement. But industry observers note that big pharma companies are also raising some prices overseas as part of a strategy to protect U.S. revenue. The post Pfizer Reaches Deal on Most-Favored Nation Drug Pricing;…
By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. Healthcare organizations are getting larger, as failing enterprises are absorbed into growing systems. Yet clinicians of all stripes but particularly physicians feel a deepening sense of alienation from the…
On a bright October day, high schoolers from Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus piled into a boat on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. Most had never been on the water before. Their guide, Trey Sherard of the Anacostia Riverkeeper, started the tour with a well-rehearsed safety talk. The nonprofit advocates for the protection of…
Company lands $3 million in seed funding led by Canvas Ventures with participation from CoFound Partners, StoryHouse Ventures and several individual investors
BOGALUSA, La. — Less than a mile from a century-old mill that sustained generations in this small town north of New Orleans, 19-year-old Tajdryn Forbes was shot to death near his mother’s house. She found Forbes face down in the street in August 2023, two weeks before he had planned to move away from the…
By KIM BELLARD I have to admit, I’ve steered away from writing about AI lately. There’s just so much going on, so fast, that I can’t keep up. Don’t ask me how GPT-5 differs from GPT-4, or what Gemini does versus Genie 3. I know Microsoft really, really wants me to use Copilot, but so…
Massive cuts to medical research and Medicaid. Waves of layoffs across the Department of Health and Human Services. Ongoing uncertainty around federal subsidies to buy health insurance on Affordable Care Act marketplaces. 2025 has been a rough year for federal health programs. But meanwhile, in the states, there were some wins for health care access….
Data only drives change when the right people see the right numbers at the right time and someone owns the follow-through. The post Bridging the Gap Between Data and Quality Improvement for Hospitals appeared first on MedCity News.