Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care
Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care…
Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care platform. The post Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care appeared first on MedCity News.
With the merger, Processa’s new lead asset is a Vidya Therapeutics immunology drug that offers pipeline-in-a-product potential addressing a target that has clinical and regulatory validation from a recently approved Novartis drug. Vidya’s molecule is a next-generation drug that could have advantages over Novartis’s pill. The post Processa Acquisition Lands Immunology Drug That Could Rival…
A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic’s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger — but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on. The post Epic-First Doesn’t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from…
This analysis finds that CMS’s proposed cut to Medicare reimbursement for 340B drugs, and accompanying increase for other outpatient services, would reduce revenues among safety-net hospitals while increasing revenues among for-profit hospitals.
CMS’s new framework sounds like a gentle opt-in. There’s no requirement to meet every standard on day one, just a commitment to work toward doing the right thing. That sounds great. But to actually participate in the network, you have to meet a baseline level of interoperability. The post A New Era of Interoperability, But…
The most common and most expensive misunderstanding in healthcare cloud strategy is treating the cloud as a destination you either reach or you do not, when it is really a progression through five distinct stages, each one unlocking capabilities the stage before it could not support. The post The Healthcare Cloud Maturity Model: The Five…
Medicaid work requirements may make it more difficult for some SSI applicants to maintain coverage due to the added complexity of navigating the verification process for the medical frailty exclusion. KFF’s policy analysis explains why SSI applicants are particularly at risk of going uninsured under the new Medicaid rules.
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. Now, the same pain had returned — on the left. This time,…
Mark Vantrease regularly sees his Vietnam War buddies over breakfast, attends his grandchildren’s Little League games, and, when he’s up to it, tends to his lush front-yard garden, which is dotted with shells retrieved from his abalone-diving days. Time is precious for him. Last year, doctors told the 76-year-old former truck driver that a combination…
The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. In a July 15 letter, the small Department of Health and Human…