Lauren Ranalli is the VP of Patient & Community Engagement at Town Square Health, a brand new medical group setting itself up for the senior population. There have of course been a lot of attempts to create new primary care medical groups. Town Square has its roots in Oak Street but is adding immediate visits…
Platform being co-developed by Commure and HCA Healthcare is designed to support critical workflows in emergency departments, hospitalist operations, and ambulatory care
Experts say the bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Act — aimed at breaking up vertically integrated healthcare companies — faces slim chances of passing despite recent PBM reforms. The post It Took Years for Congress to Enact PBM Transparency, Delinking. What About Vertical Integration? appeared first on MedCity News.
This tracker provides up-to-date data on federal Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) funding, including an overview of funding mechanisms by year, agency, grant mechanism, and jurisdiction. It will be updated over time.
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Someone in America dies by suicide every 11 minutes. It’s that common. But that doesn’t make it normal. Humans have evolved over centuries to survive. So when people try to kill themselves, something has gone wrong….
Counting hospital closures only tells part of the story, noted Duane Fitch, partner at Plante Moran. Across the country, hundreds of hospitals remain technically open while steadily shedding services their communities depend on, such as emergency care, obstetrics and psychiatric care. The post Why ‘Still Open’ Is the Wrong Way to Measure the Hospital Crisis…
The new funding will accelerate product development, AI automation, and expansion across various behavioral health settings
As patients increasingly bring AI chatbot advice into exam rooms, where does liability land when that advice goes wrong? Health law attorney Meghan O’Connor said the answer still isn’t clear, but silence is the riskiest response for providers. The post What Happens When Patients Trust AI Over Their Doctor? appeared first on MedCity News.
With the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits set to expire at the end of 2025, a large majority (77%) of the public favor Congress extending the credits while about one in five (22%) say they should let them expire, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Majorities of Democrats (91%), independents (80%),…More
Ambulatory EHR vendor says offering patients 24/7 access to front-office AI agents will enable text and chat features as well as enhanced self-scheduling