At the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Colton Underwood and fertility experts highlighted the need to break the stigma around male infertility, urging greater awareness, testing and support to recognize it as a men’s health issue as much as a women’s one. The post How the Stigma Around Male Infertility Can Be Reduced appeared first…
When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend and a social worker. “When the ride is an hour or an hour and a half of mostly freeway driving, people tend to tell you what they’re going through,” she said. Drivers such as Carr…
Healthcare organizations face challenges with siloed data, causing repeated paperwork
Bristol Myers Squibb is licensing global rights to a Philochem program in development for both diagnostic imaging and targeted treatment of prostate cancer. It follows the pharma giant’s entry into radiopharmaceuticals via the $4.1 billion acquisition of RayzeBio last year. The post Bristol Myers Squibb Is Paying $350M to Expand Its Reach in Radiopharmaceuticals to…
CMS’ new $50 billion rural health fund seeks to help rural providers sustain care in their communities over the next five years. However, experts believe the program will not be enough to stabilize the finances of rural hospitals — especially in the face of worsening reimbursement issues, an ongoing workforce crisis and billions of dollars’…
The technology already exists that would allow us to close the loop between physiological dysfunction and neural adaptation in real time. The question is not if, but how, rapidly this capability will reshape therapeutic paradigms and the economics that sustain them. The post What If Training the Brain, Not Medicating the Body, Is the Future…
One reason are the administrative obstacles and frictions that eligible individuals have to overcome to receive the public services. A paper by Herd and Moynihan (2025) in the Journal of Economic Perspectives provides an overview of the literature. Such burdens are the experience of policy implementation as onerous, and arise via learning costs (knowing about…
By reimagining clinical trials as the initial step in designing a service ecosystem, organizations can accelerate time to delivery and lay the groundwork for successful commercialization. The post Building Service Infrastructure for “Made-To-Order” Therapies appeared first on MedCity News.
Reducing diagnostic error is a significant part of healthcare organizations’ efforts to improve patient outcomes. By using data to recognize vulnerabilities in the diagnostic process, empowering their diagnostic teams and fostering an environment where every team player understands their vital role organizations can proactively correct the potential root causes of diagnostic errors. The post Strategies…
[Sponsored] Veradigm Senior Manager of Provider Performance and Tech Utilization Amanda Banister shared insights on how payers can lead the next phase of VBC implementation and how they can collaborate with providers more effectively. The post Improving Value-Based Care Depends on Better Payer-Provider Collaboration appeared first on MedCity News.