For the healthcare industry, this crisis isn’t just about financial risk — it’s about consumer trust. When patients can’t afford care, they disengage, often convinced the system isn’t built for them. And when trust erodes, so do outcomes — because people who don’t trust the system are less likely to seek care at all. The…
VITL CEO Beth Anderson says the pandemic helped cement a bond between Vermont health information exchange and Department of Health
Is a private-label product really better once you factor in performance, durability, and everything it takes to support it? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The job is knowing the difference. The post Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing appeared first on MedCity News.
The Plausible Mechanism Framework is a breakthrough. Turning it into treatments that reach families will take five things the framework doesn’t provide. The post The FDA Opened the Door For Rare Disease Patients — Here’s What It Takes to Walk Through It appeared first on MedCity News.
By making RT-PCR testing a routine option in outpatient and urgent care settings — and by educating all stakeholders along the clinical continuum — we can significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, protect the effective drugs we still have, and ensure that bacterial infections remain treatable for future generations. The post From Urgent Care to Smarter…
By MIKE MAGEE What are the chances that citizens of New York, the largest city in the nation, would vote in a majority to oppose a formerly corrupt politician with a party machine behind him, and instead favor a little known candidate – the son of immigrant parents with “swarthy skin and belligerent independence,” from…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a busy few months. He fired the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, purged the agency’s vaccine advisory committee, and included among the group’s new members appointees who espouse anti-vaccine views. The leadership upheavals, which he says will restore trust in…
By safety and cautiously integrating LLMs in a clinician setting, we have the potential for the ultimate levels of personalization: the perfect words for the right person at the right time. The post Therapy 2.0: An AI-Powered Science of Language Intervention appeared first on MedCity News.
Until a new CEO is identified, three principal executives are jointly managing CEO responsibilities at the company
It reduced cravings, dulled alcohol’s “buzz,” and carried no risk of addiction. By every measure, naltrexone should have immediately become a major triumph. Instead, it flopped because the institutions charged with treating addiction refused to use it. Now considered a gold standard, it survived because patients and communities kept it alive. The post The Pill Patients…