Cheaper, Alternative Health Plans Are Having a Moment, but Critics Urge Caution
When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple…
Cheaper, Alternative Health Plans Are Having a Moment, but Critics Urge Caution
When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine…
AI at Scale: Does It Deliver?
How is AI applied to clinical care and hospital operations across a real health system at full scale? Chip Kahn talks to Dr. Michael Schlosser, Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer at HCA Healthcare, about how AI is developed for everyday use, starting with careful testing and customization, with clinicians and nurses engaged from…
AstraZeneca, Daiichi Drug Approved as New First-Line Therapy for Tough Type of Breast Cancer
Datroway landed its third FDA approval in the past 18 months, this time as a treatment for triple negative breast cancer. The antibody drug conjugate was developed under a broad collaboration between Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca. The post AstraZeneca, Daiichi Drug Approved as New First-Line Therapy for Tough Type of Breast Cancer appeared first on…
Precision Medicine’s Next Hurdle Isn’t Science — It’s Execution
A new UPMC report found that while most health systems now offer precision medicine programs, many still face challenges scaling them due to reimbursement, data integration and patient engagement issues. Health system leaders say the field’s future depends on embedding genomics into routine care, as well as proving its clinical and financial value. The post…
Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing
Is a private-label product really better once you factor in performance, durability, and everything it takes to support it? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The job is knowing the difference. The post Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing appeared first on MedCity News.
What the Failure of Wearables Can Teach Us About AI
The takeaway from the current failure of wearables is that signal without synthesis doesn’t change outcomes. If healthcare treats AI as just another way to collect or repackage data, it will repeat the same mistake. The post What the Failure of Wearables Can Teach Us About AI appeared first on MedCity News.
Clinical Operations Burnout Is Undermining Patient Enrollment
When coordinators are buried in documentation, scheduling, and data reconciliation, patient engagement is the first thing to go. And when engagement drops, retention drops with it. The post Clinical Operations Burnout Is Undermining Patient Enrollment appeared first on MedCity News.
Smarter Engagement for Stronger Growth: How Payers Can Successfully Do More with Less
The defining capability of modern health plans is intelligent engagement with unified infrastructure. The post Smarter Engagement for Stronger Growth: How Payers Can Successfully Do More with Less appeared first on MedCity News.
AI Is Becoming the Front Door to Healthcare — But Millions of Patients Can’t Get Through It
AI genuinely could reduce barriers, by making health information more conversational, more personalized, and easier to act on. But that only happens if the people building these tools decide, from day one, that accessibility isn’t optional. The post AI Is Becoming the Front Door to Healthcare — But Millions of Patients Can’t Get Through It…
AI Made Healthcare Smarter – The Next Step is Making It Simpler
A newly diagnosed person experiences healthcare as a complicated maze of physicians, specialists, pharmacies, insurers, deductibles, formularies, prior authorizations, benefit explanations and coverage rules that rarely speak to one another and often contradict each other. Better AI can help. The post AI Made Healthcare Smarter – The Next Step is Making It Simpler appeared first…
