When Patients Become Consumers: The New Care Stack Collides With Legacy Healthcare
To succeed, our healthcare system must fully embrace consumer-focused product design to address demands of…
When Patients Become Consumers: The New Care Stack Collides With Legacy Healthcare
To succeed, our healthcare system must fully embrace consumer-focused product design to address demands of scale, access, and daily usability that the market is revealing. The post When Patients Become Consumers: The New Care Stack Collides With Legacy Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Breast Cancer Survivorship Is a Menopause Problem Nobody Owns
For all the pink ribbons we see, women with breast cancer are abandoning one of the most effective treatments they have because of symptoms no one in their care team is clearly responsible for. The post Breast Cancer Survivorship Is a Menopause Problem Nobody Owns appeared first on MedCity News.
Three Healthcare Solutions Earn Silver Honors in 2026 Impact Awards
Clarest Health, Murj and SafeRide Health recognized for innovations in medication management, heart failure monitoring and patient transportation
IVF Patients, Doctors Navigate Fetal Personhood Laws’ Unknowns
In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos. The married couple were living in California but storing their nine embryos for $3,000 per year at the clinic in Michigan, where Mertzman had resided before. After having two daughters through in vitro fertilization, the couple…
Stuck in Shelters for Months, Some Migrant Children Abandon Hopes of Staying in US
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle in Healthcare
The FTC sent warning letters to 25 health plan marketers over potentially deceptive marketing practices, following its earlier letters to healthcare services companies about price transparency. The post The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Flagship Merges 3 Startups to Turn Cause and Effect Insights Into Novel Medicines
Flagship Pioneering unveiled Etcelera, a new startup formed by combining three of the firm’s portfolio companies. Etcelera’s approach to drug R&D focuses on “causal intelligence,” which Flagship defines as predicting and understanding cause and effect in biology. The post Flagship Merges 3 Startups to Turn Cause and Effect Insights Into Novel Medicines appeared first on…
Mayo Clinic Platform Develops AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support Solution
Solution offers specialty-specific chat that can be integrated within the EHR as well as 22 clinical calculators, accessible via chat or voice dictation
Putting the “AI” in “Legal” (and “Health Care”)
By KIM BELLARD I once again have to thank The New York Times for introducing me to a new concept. Sarah Kessler wrote about the rise of “legal engineering” – for which, it turns out, one doesn’t have to be either a lawyer or an engineer. Their role is to help integrate A.I. into the…
A Déjà Vu Moment for Women’s Health Research
In this column for Nature, Alina Salganicoff reviews efforts to improve women’s health research during previous U.S. administrations that fell short of their promise and highlights the recommendations of a congressionally mandated committee aimed at improving women’s health research at the National Institutes of Health.
