Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. “That’s…
Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. “That’s what I’m trying to avoid,” said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III her baby. She remembers a boy who dressed himself in three-piece suits, donated his allowance, and graduated high school at 16 with an academic scholarship and plans…
Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes
ORANGE, Calif. — Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law to help. They grabbed canned food, fruit and vegetables, and a grocery store gift card. And…
Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.
BALTIMORE — David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he’s defused hundreds of fights that could have led to a shooting. The effort, part of Baltimore’s more than $100 million gun violence prevention…
Why AI Still Isn’t Fixing Patient Referrals—And How It Could
By NAHEEM NOAH A Call from the Black Hole Three months into building Carenector’s facility-to-facility platform, I got a call that crystallized everything wrong with healthcare referrals. A hospital social worker, who was already using our individual patient platform to help families find care, had been trying to coordinate an institutional placement for an 82-year-old…
Payers Made a Bold Prior Auth Commitment in 2025. Here’s What to Expect in 2026
More than 50 major insurers have pledged to streamline prior authorization starting in 2026, but providers remain cautiously optimistic and skeptical that the changes will truly reduce burden or delays in care. The post Payers Made a Bold Prior Auth Commitment in 2025. Here’s What to Expect in 2026 appeared first on MedCity News.
Why Are Aidoc’s AI Tools Winning Over Radiologists?
Clinical decision support startup Aidoc has become a major player in healthcare AI thanks to its focus on acute, life-or-death cases and its R&D-first approach. As Aidoc continues to innovate, Chief Business Officer Tom Valent thinks its commitment to patient safety and transparency will be key contributors to future success. The post Why Are Aidoc’s…
Mind The Gaps: Closing the Digital Divide to Improve Behavioral Healthcare
The shortfalls that accompany this technology gap touch everything from continuity of care and outcomes to the patient experience. The post Mind The Gaps: Closing the Digital Divide to Improve Behavioral Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
CMS Proposes New Mandatory GUARD and GLOBE Models
The proposed models intend to test a payment model that modifies the inflation rebate using international drug pricing information
The Referral Is Broken: Why Healthcare’s Last Bottleneck Still Lacks Innovation
We’ve automated everything but the one workflow that most directly determines whether patients actually get the care they need. The gap between knowing what works and implementing it at scale reveals the real problem that healthcare treats referrals as an administrative burden to manage, not a critical workflow to optimize. The post The Referral Is…
My Top 10 Favorite Quotes of 2025
A look back at some of the most intriguing statements from Healthcare Innovation interviews in the past year
