How Foreign Reference Pricing Embeds Valuations And Risks Undermining Global Innovation
That is the title of my new Health Affairs Forefront piece out today with Lou…
How Foreign Reference Pricing Embeds Valuations And Risks Undermining Global Innovation
That is the title of my new Health Affairs Forefront piece out today with Lou Garrison and Richard Xie. An excerpt from the article is below: United States policy makers increasingly argue that Americans pay too much for prescription drugs. In a recent report, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee minority staff contended…
Keeping Up With Clinicians
AI adoption in healthcare isn’t being led by innovation teams, it’s the clinicians The post Keeping Up With Clinicians appeared first on MedCity News.
Women’s Health Is Not a Wearable Feature — It’s an Operating System Problem
The issue is not only functional. It is experiential. Many women do not need more scores. They need continuity, context, and support that feels companionable rather than corrective. The post Women’s Health Is Not a Wearable Feature — It’s an Operating System Problem appeared first on MedCity News.
Key Facts About Medicare Spending Trends and Projections from the 2026 Medicare Trustees Report
This brief provides an overview of key trends in Medicare spending and spending growth, as well as the impact of these trends on out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries and Medicare program solvency, as projected by the Medicare Trustees in the 2026 Trustees Report.
Crothall Healthcare and Ascendco Health Advance Innovation in Sterile Processing Services
Technology partnership supports improved defect visibility, post-procedure compliance tracking, customized multi-facility dashboards, operating room readiness, and patient safety. Crothall Healthcare’s Sterile Processing Services team is helping hospitals strengthen operating room readiness, sterile processing performance, and patient safety through its technology partnership with Ascendco Health. Implemented over the past two years across approximately 25 hospitals nationwide,…
From Trial-and-Error to Targeted Success: How Computational Disease Models Can Help Patients and Pharma Companies
The in-depth, constantly-changing birds-eye view of disease that computational models provide is an essential next step in linking our ever-expanding clinical knowledge and data with drug development. The post From Trial-and-Error to Targeted Success: How Computational Disease Models Can Help Patients and Pharma Companies appeared first on MedCity News.
Care Without Walls: Scaling Alternatives to Skilled Nursing Facilities
Here’s how alternative care pathways are changing the way we think about patient discharge and how to create effective and safe disposition options from both emergency department (ED) and inpatient settings. The post Care Without Walls: Scaling Alternatives to Skilled Nursing Facilities appeared first on MedCity News.
The Payer AI Readiness Gap: Why Better Data Will Define the Next Era of Health Plan Performance
[Sponsored] A July 22 webinar, scheduled for 1 pm ET and sponsored by Verato, will explore why the next era of payer performance will depend on building a trusted data foundation that connects people, providers, and relationships across the enterprise. The post The Payer AI Readiness Gap: Why Better Data Will Define the Next Era…
Even in Blue States, Hospitals Have Continued To Drop Gender-Affirming Care for Youths
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns. “OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first…
A Ban Won’t Stop Abortion Pill Access, Telehealth Providers Say
Angel Foster had a backup plan. It was the first weekend in May. A federal appeals court had just made it illegal to mail mifepristone, a pill that’s part of the most widely used abortion method in the U.S. But Foster, a doctor who specializes in reproductive health, was prepared. As leader of the Massachusetts…
