About a year ago, I was stationed in downtown D.C. on an especially chilly spring day, watching hundreds of federal employees line up outside their office buildings. In a humbling exercise, employees were waiting to test whether their entry badges still worked at the Department of Health and Human Services — or whether they’d be walked back…
This brief provides on overview of funding proposals for domestic HIV programs and initiatives in President Trump’s FY27 budget request to Congress.
Digitization has certainly cut down on the paperwork glut in healthcare. But if that’s the extent of technology’s impact on the patient experience, it’s clearly not enough. The post Know Your Patient: How Technology Can Help Health Care Providers Dramatically Improve One Key Aspect of the Patient Experience appeared first on MedCity News.
The good news: fixing our ancient administrative infrastructure does not require technology that’s particularly experimental, nor does it require passing new laws or regulations. It does, however, require coordination. The post Healthcare’s Most Fixable Cost Problem: Administrative Waste appeared first on MedCity News.
This year, executives from nearly every major health insurance company made the same declaration in calls with Wall Street analysts: Using artificial intelligence to make coverage decisions would help save them money. Even the Trump administration is testing AI’s usefulness in managing the prior authorization process for the Medicare program, as well as seeking to…
The accident happened in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. Joseph Masterson, a lawyer who was just days from retiring at age 63, suffered cardiac arrest while driving, plowed into a guardrail, and lost consciousness. Other drivers stopped, broke the car window, and pulled him to safety. A passing volunteer firefighter performed CPR until an ambulance arrived…
By ANISH KOKA I was listening to a conversation between two critical thinkers I respect greatly: geneticist/technologist/blogger Razib Khan and Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle. Their discussion was a freewheeling rant about the problems they see with the rise of populism on the left and right, but a throwaway comment related to the US physician shortage in the…
Luminai raised $38 million in Series B funding to scale its AI platform that automates healthcare administrative workflows. The company is working with Cleveland Clinic to expand the use of its system across high-volume processes, starting with referral management. The post Luminai Raises $38M With Cleveland Clinic Using Its AI for Hospital Operations appeared first…
That is the title of a new paper published this week in Clinical Nutrition with co-authors Kyi-Sin Than, Khounish Sharma, Kirk W. Kerr, and Dhanasekhar Kesavelu. The abstract is below: IntroductionPediatric malnutrition is a significant global public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This study quantifies the lifetime, per-person economic impact of pediatric…
Cigna Healthcare ranks highest in digital experience among commercial plans, while UPMC Health Plan ranks highest among Medicare Advantage plans, according to a new JD Power report. The post Which Health Plans Rank Highest In Digital Experience? appeared first on MedCity News.