SAN FRANCISCO — Health nonprofits and medical interpreters warn that federal cuts have eliminated dozens of positions in California for community workers who help non-English speakers sign up for insurance coverage and navigate the health care system. At the same time, people with limited English proficiency have scaled back their requests for language services, which…
Patient flow automation startup Qventus closed a $105 million Series D financing round. The company’s technology is used by more than 115 hospitals and health systems, including Northwestern Medicine, Banner Health and Allina Health. The post Qventus Snags $105M for Its Patient Flow Automation Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center Venture Fund, Yale New Haven Health join General Catalyst in $10.5 million funding round
[Sponsored] AI can free up 20% of nurses’ time by reducing documentation, which takes up to 60% of their shifts, helping combat burnout and improve patient care. The post 7 Ways AI Is Helping Nurses and Transforming Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Nearly all CIOs and other healthcare technology leaders at provider organizations believe that effectively leveraging AI gives them a competitive edge, according to new research. However, the report also found that some organizations still struggle with barriers to adoption, such as the lack of the right talent and concerns about ethics, privacy and security. The…
Healthcare organizations tend to view issues in pockets – how they are impacting their specific organization and region – but patient safety is a collective mission. No matter what hospital or health system they are in, or which care model they belong to, patients everywhere deserve safer care. The post Patients Everywhere Deserve Safer Care…
Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will slow after mass firings at the federal Department of Health and Human Services swept out staff members responsible for releasing records, according to transparency advocates and health experts. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s layoffs…
During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill. “We decided the best option for me was an IUD,” she said, referring to an intrauterine device, a long-acting, reversible type of birth control. Anderson, 25, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, asked her doctor how much it might cost. At the time,…
Come January 1, CMS will begin enforcing new price transparency requirements for hospitals. Experts doubt that these regulations will do much to help patients shop for care, but they are optimistic that increasing the amount of publicly available pricing data will help tech companies develop tools that simplify pricing for patients. The post Hospitals Are…
When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work. “It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project,…