Your Guide to Outpatient Addiction Treatment: Top Choices in Sacramento and Beyond
[Sponsored] Unlike inpatient recovery, which requires you to live at a facility full-time, outpatient care…
Your Guide to Outpatient Addiction Treatment: Top Choices in Sacramento and Beyond
[Sponsored] Unlike inpatient recovery, which requires you to live at a facility full-time, outpatient care allows you to continue working and maintain important relationships while getting necessary care. The post Your Guide to Outpatient Addiction Treatment: Top Choices in Sacramento and Beyond appeared first on MedCity News.
How Smarter Metrics Can Unlock AI’s Potential in Healthcare
Healthcare doesn’t reward shortcuts. It rewards outcomes. AI will play a critical role in shaping those outcomes — but only if leaders measure what truly matters. The best AI implementations elevate expertise, improve quality and create space for innovation. The post How Smarter Metrics Can Unlock AI’s Potential in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
What the New CMS Strategy Signals for Rehab Professionals
The CMS vision is ambitious, but so is the potential for rehab therapy to shape its execution. To do that, providers must actively engage, document their impact, and advocate for their inclusion in evolving models of care. The post What the New CMS Strategy Signals for Rehab Professionals appeared first on MedCity News.
Push To Move OB-GYN Exam Out of Texas Is Piece of AGs’ Broader Reproductive Rights Campaign
Democratic state attorneys general led by those from California, New York, and Massachusetts are pressuring medical professional groups to defend reproductive rights, including medication abortion, emergency abortions, and travel between states for health care in response to recent increases in the number of abortion bans. The American Medical Association adopted a formal position June 9…
‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join HIV advocates at an April rally against the Trump administration’s actions. It had clawed back more than $11 billion…
Ariel Katz, H1
H1 has raised over $200m to build out a very comprehensive data set of physicians internationally. Those products were primarily aimed at pharma. Now they are moving into the world of managing physician data for plans and providers, primarily via the 2025 acquisitions of Ribbon Health and Veda Health. I spoke with CEO Ariel Katz,…
More Than 50 Health Plans Commit to Simplifying Prior Authorization
Several insurers, such as UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna, pledged to improve prior authorization. These changes include streamlining decision timelines and increasing transparency. The post More Than 50 Health Plans Commit to Simplifying Prior Authorization appeared first on MedCity News.
Why This Former OpenAI Exec Is Urging Health Leaders to ‘Specialize in Empathy’
At the HFMA Annual Conference, AI expert Zack Kass shared a personal story to emphasize the enduring importance of human qualities like empathy and compassion in healthcare. In his view, these qualities will only become more essential as AI continues to transform the clinical landscape. The post Why This Former OpenAI Exec Is Urging Health…
Muchas personas mayores aceptan las vacunas con entusiasmo. La investigación les da la razón
Kim Beckham, agente de seguros en Victoria, Texas, había visto a sus amigos sufrir tanto por la culebrilla (shingles) que quería recibir la primera vacuna aprobada contra esta infección tan pronto como estuviera disponible, incluso si tenía que pagarla de su bolsillo. Su médico y varias farmacias le dijeron que no podían administrarle la vacuna…
Vertex Pharma’s Type 1 Diabetes Cell Therapy Shows Potential to Achieve Insulin Independence
In Phase 1/2 results for 12 patients at least one year after receiving the cell therapy, zimislecel, Vertex Pharmaceuticals reported all participants achieved blood glucose in the target range and 10 of the 12 were free of exogenous insulin as of the data cutoff. Vertex expects to complete enrollment in the pivotal portion of the…
