The Staffing Crisis Security Teams Aren’t Talking About: When Safety Concerns Drive Healthcare Worker Exodus
What many organizations haven’t yet connected is how security decisions ripple through their entire financial…
The Staffing Crisis Security Teams Aren’t Talking About: When Safety Concerns Drive Healthcare Worker Exodus
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: A Few More Good Things From 2025
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…
Medical Bills Can Be Vexing and Perplexing. Here’s This Year’s Best Advice for Patients.
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…
It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?
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….
After Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery, They Wound Up in the Hospital or Alone at a Recovery House
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…
Father Christmas Reminds Us We Can Do Better Than This
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: Key Findings on Confidence, Digital Health, AI and Partnerships
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.
HHS Proposes HTI-5 Rule to Streamline Certification Program
HTI-5 proposes significant regulatory updates, including removing over half of certification criteria
When to Use Discrete Event Simulation (DES) for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies?
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…
AHA Invests in AI that Tackles Cardiology’s Gender Bias Problem
The American Heart Association is backing an AI startup aimed at improving detection of hard-to-diagnose conditions like cardiac amyloidosis and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The company, named Ultromics, offers a platform that analyzes routine echocardiograms to help clinicians catch disease earlier, particularly for women who are more likely to be missed. The…
