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…
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,…
Give That 1337 a Job!
By KIM BELLARD Chances are someone in your family is a gamer. Maybe you are a gamer yourself. After all, somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of Americans play video games, and if you just looked at young men, it’d be closer to 100%. Grumpy older people don’t get it, complaining that gaming is just a…
Heartflow Sues Cardiac AI Rival Cleerly Over Alleged IP Theft
HeartFlow, which makes AI tools to analyze cardiac images, sued its rival Cleerly, alleging infringement on six patents. Cleerly is pushing back. The post Heartflow Sues Cardiac AI Rival Cleerly Over Alleged IP Theft appeared first on MedCity News.
Vida Health Teams Up with ŌURA to Provide More Personalized Metabolic Care
Vida Health is partnering with ŌURA to use data from the Oura Ring to provide more continuous, personalized cardiometabolic care and improve patient outcomes. The post Vida Health Teams Up with ŌURA to Provide More Personalized Metabolic Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Bouncing Back From Trial Failure, Travere Wins First FDA Approval in Rare Kidney Disease
Travere Therapeutics’ Filspari is now the first FDA-approved drug for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a rare kidney disease. Analysts project the pill will become a blockbuster seller. The post Bouncing Back From Trial Failure, Travere Wins First FDA Approval in Rare Kidney Disease appeared first on MedCity News.
Two visions for value – Why GCEA and HEMA clash on drug pricing
That is the title of my latest Perspectives from the Healthcare Economist article published in The Evidence Base this week. Here is the teaser: In this guest column, healthcare economist Jason Shafrin (FTI Consulting and Mann School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California) explores a widening divide over how health systems define value, and what that means…
5 of the Top 10 U.S. Health Systems Are Moving to This New Health IT Category. Here’s Why.
[Sponsored] 74% of healthcare AI is stuck in pilots. The reason isn’t the AI, it’s the data architecture underneath it. Read more to find the solution. The post 5 of the Top 10 U.S. Health Systems Are Moving to This New Health IT Category. Here’s Why. appeared first on MedCity News.
