It’s not well known but there’s a lot of people in hospitals who spend a lot of time creating patient registries for quality programs, CMS reporting, clinical trials and lots more. It requires extremely detailed abstraction of patient data from patient records and comparisons with registry demands. Wouldn’t it be clever if an AI system…
[Sponsored] Employee mental health, emotional resilience and workplace well-being are strategic priorities for health care organizations navigating burnout, staffing shortages and rising stress levels. The post The Best EAP Providers in America: Top 10 Services for Workplace Support appeared first on MedCity News.
A proposed amendment to existing legislation could create centralized and harmonized rules for single-use device reprocessing across all EU member countries. The post Europe’s Promising (But Rocky) Path to Embracing Single-Use Device Reprocessing appeared first on MedCity News.
This interactive tool tracks public opinion on the Affordable Care Act, from the inception of the law to the present. It highlights key moments when views shifted and trends based on party identification, income, age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
Meeting people where they are with personalized AI-powered patient outreach could help traditional healthcare move beyond reactive medicine. The post Could AI be the Antidote to ‘Sick Care’ in America? appeared first on MedCity News.
A small Tennessee hospital that was destroyed by a surging river during Hurricane Helene will soon be rebuilt on low-lying farmland that could face several feet of flooding in a much smaller storm, risking another disaster if the new facility is not built to withstand extreme weather, according to a KFF Health News analysis. Ballad…
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration’s new immigration detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This posting combined Donald Trump’s longtime passion to use the offshore base to move “some bad dudes”…
Republicans have hitched themselves to the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign, banking on its popularity to give them an electoral bounce. But the strategy carries risks. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who rails against Big Pharma and ultraprocessed food, is the leader of the movement. And Americans’…
OpenEvidence’s $12 billion valuation reflects investor confidence in its bottom-up, doctor-first model. It has driven rapid adoption, with more than 430,000 clinicians using the startup’s free AI medical search tool regularly. That scale is paired with targeted pharmaceutical advertising that’s already pushed the company past a $100 million revenue run rate. The post Thunderstruck By…
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 and the Department of Labor’s proposed rule implement major PBM reforms for employers, but don’t include everything they want, including a ban on spread pricing. The post Employers Celebrated PBM Reform. The Reality Is More Complicated appeared first on MedCity News.