We should never wait for tragedies to force a conversation around clear governance and accountability. Oversight has to evolve alongside innovation to protect people before harm occurs. The post When Innovation Outpaces Oversight: Lessons from IV Spas to AI appeared first on MedCity News.
What many organizations haven’t yet connected is how security decisions ripple through their entire financial picture, from recruitment to retention to operational efficiency. The post The Staffing Crisis Security Teams Aren’t Talking About: When Safety Concerns Drive Healthcare Worker Exodus appeared first on MedCity News.
An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical debt, insurance delays and denials, and corporate profiteering. In Maine, lawmakers unanimously voted to remove medical debts from credit reports. While a nationwide court ruling has cast doubt on the new law’s…
A Texas boy’s second dose of the MMRV vaccine cost over $1,400. A Pennsylvania woman’s long-acting birth control cost more than $14,000. Treatment for a Florida Medicaid enrollee’s heart attack cost nearly $78,000 — about as much as surgery for an uninsured Montana woman’s broken arm. In 2025, these patients were among the hundreds who…
ALEXANDER, N.C. — Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend. Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond curls, the 3-year-old sat in her mother’s lap carefully enunciating a classmate’s first name after hearing the words “best friend.” Just months ago, Gaile Osborne didn’t expect her adoptive daughter would make friends at school….
Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned the cosmetic surgery center to ask if she should head to the emergency room, she alleges in a lawsuit. The nurse who took the call at the Sono Bello center in Addison, Texas, told…
By MIKE MAGEE The Ghost of Christmas Past, in the form of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, has returned this season to torture one RFK Jr who refuses to fully share life saving vaccines with children. In the encounter, the ghostly Koop reviews a time 37 years ago when citizens came together to celebrate separating…
Deloitte’s 2026 Healthcare Outlook shows that while more than two-thirds of U.S. healthcare leaders expect to outperform competitors, rising policy uncertainty is pushing greater focus on digital care, AI and partnerships. The post Deloitte’s 2026 Healthcare Outlook: Key Findings on Confidence, Digital Health, AI and Partnerships appeared first on MedCity News.
HTI-5 proposes significant regulatory updates, including removing over half of certification criteria
That is the title of a helpful article by Karnon and Haji Ali Afzali (Pharmacoeconomics 2014) with a subtitle A Review and Critique of the Costs and Benefits of DES. The paper starts by highlighting the 3 most common types of models: decision trees, Markovian cohort models, and individual level models. Decisions trees are useful…