Rural US Healthcare Has A Cybersecurity Problem — CMS Funding Can Help Fix the Part No One Sees
Rural hospitals need trained people, tested backups, downtime procedures, clinical continuity planning, and staff who…
Rural US Healthcare Has A Cybersecurity Problem — CMS Funding Can Help Fix the Part No One Sees
Rural hospitals need trained people, tested backups, downtime procedures, clinical continuity planning, and staff who know what to do when an alert fires. A framework won’t substitute for that work, but it helps organize it and makes progress measurable. The post Rural US Healthcare Has A Cybersecurity Problem — CMS Funding Can Help Fix the…
What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently
It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.” Tompkins returned to her home in San Diego, but she was still taking antibiotics, along…
Drive for Nuclear Power Boosts Uranium Industry — And Tribal Health Concerns in Southwest
WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s…
KFF: Insurers Denied 12%-18% of Prior Authorization Requests in 2025
KFF found that insurers denied 12%-18% of standard prior authorization requests in 2025, with significant variation among insurers and gaps in transparency. The post KFF: Insurers Denied 12%-18% of Prior Authorization Requests in 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
Slate Medicines’ Merger and $245M Private Placement Fuel Mission in Migraine
Migraine drugs developer Slate Medicines is going public in a reverse merger with Fulcrum Therapeutics. The biotech’s lead antibody drug blocks two novel migraine targets, offering the potential for better efficacy compared to other next-generation migraine drugs in R&D. The post Slate Medicines’ Merger and $245M Private Placement Fuel Mission in Migraine appeared first on…
The Rise of Consumer Diagnostics and Emerging Trends
Consumer diagnostics will be one of several discussions at the INVEST Digital Health conference focused on power shifting to the consumer in healthcare. The conference is scheduled for October 29 in Dallas at Pegasus Park, in partnership with Health Wildcatters. Click here to view the agenda and register. The post The Rise of Consumer Diagnostics…
Healthcare Is Deploying AI Tools — It’s Not Ready for AI Colleagues
Most healthcare organizations are experimenting with AI. Few are preparing to manage AI agents as participants in everyday healthcare workflows. The post Healthcare Is Deploying AI Tools — It’s Not Ready for AI Colleagues appeared first on MedCity News.
How Payers and Health Plans Think of Identity and the Risks of Fragmented Data
[Sponsored] A recent webinar, sponsored by Verato, offered insights from executives at SCAN Health Plan and the Alliance of Community Health Plans on a wide range of tech challenges in healthcare from fragmented data to technology architecture to patient identity. The post How Payers and Health Plans Think of Identity and the Risks of Fragmented…
Newsom Promotes Affordable Insulin, but California’s Generic Label Off to a Slow Start
SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear. Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to have if a patient…
Kennedy’s Quiet Hunt for Autism Culprits Stalls as Trump Orders Baseless Changes to Childhood Shots
President Donald Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism cases — even as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has failed to produce evidence linking vaccinations to the disorder. While the executive order released Aug. 10 does not directly mention autism,…
