What the Health? From KFF Health News: A Headless CDC
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is…
What the Health? From KFF Health News: A Headless CDC
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A…
LGBT People Experience Widespread Concerns and Challenges When it Comes to Health Care Affordability
This analysis highlights the health care affordability challenges facing LGBT adults, a growing population that faces health related disparities. Findings from KFF Health Tracking Polls show that LGBT adults face more widespread concerns with affording basic necessities, including health care, compared to non-LGBT adults.
Ian Shakil, Commure
Ian Shakil is the Chief Strategy Officer of Commure, the AI platform being used by HCA, Tenet and others. He came to Commure via its acquisition of Ambient AI vendor Augmedix, and there are a lot other other new acquisitions within Commure (Athelas, PatientKeeper, Memora Health, Rx Health etc). We dived in not only about…
Frozen Does Not Mean Stable: Rethinking Cryopreservation in Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
As cell-based therapies grow more complex and manufacturing networks expand, resilience can’t be an afterthought, and cryopreservation can no longer just be a step that gets validated during development and left alone. It needs to play an ongoing role in product consistency, potency, and reliability. The post Frozen Does Not Mean Stable: Rethinking Cryopreservation in…
DPC Is Scaling — The Financing Architecture Isn’t Ready
Growth without structural discipline creates risk. And the risk that has gone largely unexamined in the DPC advocacy space is the one that matters most to the broader healthcare system: what happens to insurance risk pools when healthy lives migrate out of them? The post DPC Is Scaling — The Financing Architecture Isn’t Ready appeared…
Personalized Rehab Solution: Supporting Patients With Work Responsibilities
[Sponsored] Balancing recovery with professional obligations can feel overwhelming. The post Personalized Rehab Solution: Supporting Patients With Work Responsibilities appeared first on MedCity News.
New KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust Finds One in Three Adults Have Used AI Chatbots for Health Advice — The Monitor
KFF’s latest Tracking Poll finds that one-third of the public report using AI chatbots for health information and advice in the past year. And a federal judge suspended, for now, the appointments of thirteen members of ACIP, halting a scheduled meeting and staying recent, widely debated, changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
Taking a GLP-1? Doctors Say Not To Forget About Movement and Mental Health
LISTEN: Taking a GLP-1? Doctors say don’t forget to move your body and tend to your mental health, too. Severe ankle pain drove Jelon Smart to start taking a weight loss injection a year and a half ago. Smart was 285 pounds and worked as a caterer in Savannah, Georgia. After she’d been standing on…
With AI, why do we still have radiologists?
From Lex Fridman’s interview with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA: …the first job that computer scientists said, AI researchers said was gonna go away was radiology because computer vision was going to achieve superhuman levels…and it did. Computer vision was superhuman in 2019….maybe a little bit later, 2020. And so it’s been a long time…
Could There Be a ‘Soft Opening’ of H.R. 1 Medicaid Changes?
Experts are split on whether H.R. 1 Medicaid changes in 2027 will roll out gradually or on schedule. The post Could There Be a ‘Soft Opening’ of H.R. 1 Medicaid Changes? appeared first on MedCity News.
