By OWEN TRIPP Move over, GLP-1s. This year the healthcare spotlight is on alternative plan design. Alternative health plans offer cost transparency and a consumer-friendly shopping experience. But can the capabilities under the hood deliver on quality and value? Though it may not sound buzzworthy, it has the potential to trigger a seismic shift in…
Estás listo para salir del hospital, pero todavía no te sientes en condiciones de cuidarte solo en casa. O bien ya terminaste un par de semanas de rehabilitación. ¿Podrás manejar una rutina complicada de medicamentos, además de hacer las compras y cocinar? Tal vez te caíste en la ducha y ahora tu familia quiere que…
EHR vendors says Claude synthesizes complex, longitudinal patient data — including problem lists, medications, visit notes, labs, and vitals — into concise summaries
Addressing the burnout demands integrated systems that lighten administrative burdens rather than compound them. The post To Reduce Therapist Burnout and Improve Care, Turn to Longitudinal Data appeared first on MedCity News.
We are currently experiencing an inflection point for progress in interoperability. Without meaningful reform to reflect the real world, the system risks repeating and even accelerating historical patterns of exclusion — leaving vulnerable patients behind. The post Making Interoperability Privacy Standards Work for the Real World appeared first on MedCity News.
That is the tile of my recent paper in the Journal of Medical Economics with co-authors Kyi-Sin Than, Sanjana Muthukrishnan, Jincy Paulose, Ver Bilano and Nicholas Kuypers. The abstract is below: ObjectiveParoxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare and debilitating hematological disease with significant economic burden. Despite the availability of multiple therapies, there is a…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When a trio of Republican state lawmakers introduced a bill last year that would subject women who obtain abortions to decades in prison, some reproductive rights advocates feared South Carolina might pass the “most extreme” abortion ban in the United States. Now, though, it seems unlikely to become state law. In November,…
It’s feeding time for the animals on this property outside Nashville, Tennessee. An albino raccoon named Cricket reaches through the wires of its cage to grab an animal cracker, an appetizer treat right before the evening meal. “Cricket is blind,” said Robert Sory, who is trying to open a nonprofit animal sanctuary along with his…
AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI are both expanding their large language models into healthcare. Anthropic is blending its enterprise and consumer tools in a single platform, while OpenAI is separating its consumer-facing ChatGPT Health from its industry-focused OpenAI for Healthcare. They are both targeting patients, providers and researchers with AI tools for tasks ranging from…
Dr. Jackie Gerhart explained that Epic is building a digital concierge, which will be able to do much more than just answer a person’s health and medical questions. But many features are still in development and the average user can only access it if their provider decides to pay for it. The post What does…