2025 Books of the Year
As I do every year, here are the books I read and enjoyed this year….
2025 Books of the Year
As I do every year, here are the books I read and enjoyed this year. Non-fiction. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler. This is probably not the most ‘fun’ book I read for the year, but it is the one that is likely to have the biggest…
Rural Health Providers Hit by $100K Trump Visa Fee
More than 30 people have applied for a lab technician job at West River Health Services in Hettinger, North Dakota, a thousand-person town in the rural southwestern part of the state. Because they aren’t U.S. citizens, they would each need a visa. West River and other companies used to pay up to $5,000 in fees…
Seguros con deducibles altos ponen en aprietos a pacientes con afecciones crónicas
David Garza a veces siente que no tiene seguro médico, por lo caro que le cuesta tratar su diabetes tipo 2. Su prima mensual de $435 por la cobertura familiar es casi igual a la del seguro de su trabajo anterior. Pero el plan de salud de su empleo actual tiene un deducible anual de…
Top Telemedicine Services for Hospitals: Leading Solutions Compared
[Sponsored] Improving teamwork flows and patient experiences is easier with the latest technology. The post Top Telemedicine Services for Hospitals: Leading Solutions Compared appeared first on MedCity News.
Cut Through The Hype: 3 Things To Know Before Adopting Agentic AI
“Agentic AI” is the next solution to help fix what healthcare has been focused on for years – connecting patients to care easily and efficiently, while reducing staff burden. The post Cut Through The Hype: 3 Things To Know Before Adopting Agentic AI appeared first on MedCity News.
Omaha ABA Therapy: Comparing the Top Providers
[Sponsored] The right provider enables children to gain confidence, learn to express their needs and discover new ways to connect with the world around them. The post Omaha ABA Therapy: Comparing the Top Providers appeared first on MedCity News.
Reducing EMS Documentation Time Without Sacrificing Accuracy
For field providers, the goal isn’t just faster paperwork — it’s smarter, safer documentation that puts patient care first. The post Reducing EMS Documentation Time Without Sacrificing Accuracy appeared first on MedCity News.
Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers
We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The…
Vaccine Panel’s Hepatitis B Vote Signals Further Turbulence for Immunization Policy, Public Trust
When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. “I was 18, healthy, in college,” she said. “And suddenly I had a chronic illness I didn’t even know about.”…
How do CMS negotiated prices compare to value?
That is the question asked in a recent Health Affairs Forefront article by Peter Neumann, Josh Cohen, Sean Sullivan and Feng Xie. They compare the CMS negotiated prices for Initial Price Applicability Year (IPAY) 2027 against value-based prices (using QALYs) from the Tufts Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry. The authors found that cost-effectiveness estimates varied among…
