The future of healthcare will be one where technology doesn’t just serve the industry but genuinely improves the lives of individuals, transforming how we interact with medical data, healthcare providers, and our personal well-being. The post Four AI Disruptions in 2025 That Will Reshape Pharma and Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Johnson & Johnson’s agreement to acquire Intra-Cellular Therapies brings Caplyta, which is projected to become a blockbuster seller across several neurological indications. In other M&A news, GSK and Eli Lilly each struck deals to fill their cancer drug pipelines. The post J&J Bolsters Its Prospects in Brain Health With $14B Buyout of Intra-Cellular Therapies appeared…
In April, Thomas Sanford, a medical student who regularly listens to “An Arm and a Leg,” set out to create a resource he could easily share with patients to help them deal with unaffordable medical bills. In this mini-episode, host Dan Weissmann talks with Sanford about how handing out charity care information on tiny cards…
In this JAMA Health Forum post, KFF’s Larry Levitt outlines four reasons why high drug prices are in the spotlight more than hospital prices, even though hospitals accounted for 40% of the growth in national health spending from 2022 to 2024, and explores the potential for policy action to restrain them.
In the shift from isolated expertise to collective insights, shared data are revolutionizing patient care in EMS and hospitals. The post From Silos to Synthesis: How the Information Renaissance is Transforming Emergency Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief describes the Managed Care Program Annual Report (MCPAR), a relatively new, comprehensive report on state Medicaid managed care programs that includes plan-level data. It is used with other managed care reports to improve state and federal managed care program monitoring, oversight, and transparency.
When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it between the front door and the car,” Lai later recalled, and the child wasn’t complaining. The doctor grabbed a pair of forceps…
Most recent settlement marks 14th enforcement action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative
UCSF researcher Maria Shcherbakova highlighted how adaptive deep brain stimulation is improving Parkinson’s care by automatically adjusting brain implants in real time to better control symptoms. The post How Medtronic & UCSF Are Giving Parkinson’s Patients Greater Control Over Their Symptoms appeared first on MedCity News.
SALINAS, California. — Este valle costero, que se hizo famoso gracias al novelista John Steinbeck, a veces se conoce cariñosamente como “la ensaladera de Estados Unidos”, aunque la siembra y la cosecha las realizan principalmente inmigrantes de México. Para Taylor Farms, que es uno de los principales proveedores mundiales de ensaladas envasadas y verduras cortadas,…