Impact of Continuous Glucose Monitoring on Clinical Outcomes and Productivity Losses Among People Living With Type 2 Diabetes Not Using Insulin From an Employer’s Perspective
That is the title of a new paper out yesterday in the Journal of Diabetes…
Impact of Continuous Glucose Monitoring on Clinical Outcomes and Productivity Losses Among People Living With Type 2 Diabetes Not Using Insulin From an Employer’s Perspective
That is the title of a new paper out yesterday in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology from my FTI colleague Marie Steele-Adjognon, along with Martha E. Shepherd, Jon Harris-Shapiro, David Hines, Abraham Lee and Yeesha Poon. The abstract is below. Background: This study evaluated the impact of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on health…
New Comprehensive AI Risk and Supply Chain Transparency Guide for Healthcare
New guide provides healthcare entities with strategies to enhance AI governance, improve procurement processes, and establish shared responsibility models with vendors to better manage AI-related cybersecurity risks
Why Innovaccer Is Pouring $250M into Its Agentic AI Platform
Innovaccer is committing $250 million to expand its AI agent platform, which automates workflows across areas like prior authorization, revenue cycle management and population health. The move comes amid an ongoing debate over whether administrative AI tools can ultimately reduce costs for providers. The post Why Innovaccer Is Pouring $250M into Its Agentic AI Platform…
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance 101
This Health Policy 101 chapter explores employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI), the primary health coverage source for U.S. residents under age 65. In addition to detailing ESI requirements and incentives, structure, availability, and costs, the chapter examines ongoing challenges related to affordability and access to care for those with ESI coverage.
Eli Lilly Buys Startup CrossBridge Bio to Bring a More Powerful Strike to Tumors
Eli Lilly is paying up to $300 million for CrossBridge Bio, a startup developing antibody drug conjugates that deliver two drug payloads to cancers. Beyond potentially better efficacy, CrossBio’s dual approach could also fight drug resistance. The post Eli Lilly Buys Startup CrossBridge Bio to Bring a More Powerful Strike to Tumors appeared first on…
Implications of AI Chatbots Performing Poorly at Differential Diagnosis
Mass General Brigham’s Marc Succi, M.D., discusses his team’s study involving 21 large language models
From Insight to Intervention: Why Over-the-Counter Digital Therapeutics (ODTx) are the Next Step for LLMs and Wearables
These products have yet to offer treatment solutions designed to get users from their current health state to a desired future health state. This creates a massive, untapped opening for tools that move people from awareness to action in a clinically meaningful way, without the cost and access barriers of engaging the healthcare system or requiring…
The Last Mile Problem in AI Radiology: Detection Improves, Follow-Through Breaks
The next wave of radiology AI value will come from closed-loop follow-up. An actionable finding should start a pathway with a measurable end state: the follow-up exam is completed, the referral is completed, or the recommendation is clinically resolved with a documented rationale. The post The Last Mile Problem in AI Radiology: Detection Improves, Follow-Through…
Medi-Cal Immigrant Enrollment Is Dropping. Researchers Point to Trump’s Policies.
For months, a cloud of fear has hovered over the immigrant community in San Bernardino, California, making it hard for María González to do her job as a community health worker in this city where almost a quarter of residents are foreign-born. It started building over the summer, fed by news of immigration raids across…
Rural Nebraska Dialysis Unit Closes Despite the State’s $219M in Rural Health Funding
HAY SPRINGS, Neb.— The sun was just warming the horizon as Mark Pieper left his house near his cattle ranch on a crisp February morning. It’s not unusual for the rancher to wake up early to tend to livestock, but at 5:45 a.m. this day his cattle wouldn’t come first. For the past 3½ years,…
