The path to scalable AI in healthcare will not be defined by a single breakthrough or technology. It will be shaped by the industry’s ability to address the foundational challenges that have existed for decades. The post Healthcare Doesn’t Have an AI Problem — It Has a Readiness Problem appeared first on MedCity News.
LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, is struggling…
The Business of Health with Chip Kahn May 5, 2026 Video https://www.youtube.
Leeza Osipenko Ekaterina Cleary Julie Egginton By JULIE EGGINGTON, EKATERINA CLEARY & LEEZA OSIPENKO When CMS issued its Request for Information under the Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH) initiative in February, it zeroed in on a long-festering problem: fraud, waste, and abuse in laboratory testing, especially in genetic and molecular diagnostics. The laboratory…
Biosimilars aim to be lower cost options for biologic therapies after loss of exclusivity. A key question is whether these cost savings get passed through to patients via lower out-of-pocket costs. A paper by Dayer et al. (2026) aims to answer this question using 2011-2023 Merative MarketScan Commercial claims data. The authors observed: …significant patient…
A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area. The post Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall? appeared first…
Candid Therapeutics brings to UCB two clinical-stage T cell engagers in development for autoimmune disorders. To accept UCB’s offer, Candid terminated its reverse merger with Rallybio. The post UCB Joins the Chase for Immune System Reset With $2B Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News.
CIO Yeman Collier, Artisight CEO Andrew Gostine, M.D., M.B.A, discuss building on three initial use cases for Smart Hospital Platform
This fact sheet examines Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (also known as Gavi), an independent, public-private partnership and multilateral funding mechanism that aims to increase access to immunization in lower income countries, and explores the role the U.S. government plays in supporting the partnership.
EHRs not only document care but can also act as a financial engine to bridge the gap between patient care and prompt reimbursement. Here’s how to bring the two sides together to alleviate tedious administrative burdens. The post Why EHRs Are Critical to Effective Revenue Cycle Management appeared first on MedCity News.