That is the title of my column for my latest column forThe Evidence Base. In this latest edition of Perspectives from the Healthcare Economist, Jason Shafrin (FTI Consulting and Mann School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California) examines how AI is beginning to reshape health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), from evidence generation and literature reviews to…
The Patient Transport team at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center is a strong example of Crothall’s commitment to workplace safety in action. Crothall Healthcare’s Patient Transport team, located in Salisbury, N.C., makes over 68,000 trips a year and has achieved impressive safety milestones: no major injuries since January 2017 and no ‘Red Rule’ violations for more than eight…
Difficult packaging comes with tangible consequences, including lower adherence, higher rates of adverse events, and diminished real-world effectiveness. It can also delay FDA submissions and ultimately, market entry. The post Our Aging Population is Forcing a Rethink of How We Design & Package Medicines appeared first on MedCity News.
How much of precision interventional psychiatry can actually happen remotely, and where does the model hit a wall? The answer is potentially more nuanced than the conventional framing suggests. The post Can Precision Psychiatry Be Delivered Remotely? The Limits and Opportunities of Telehealth in Interventional Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Healthcare inefficiency is rarely about a single task. It is typically about disjointed systems, misaligned incentives, and fragmented accountability. When we automate broken processes like these, we simply fail faster and at scale. The post Digitized Dysfunction: Why Healthcare Must Eliminate Work — Not Just Automate It appeared first on MedCity News.
State Medicaid and public health agencies both work to advance the health of their communities, often pursuing similar priorities and serving similar populations. This brief examines findings from KFF’s 25th annual Medicaid budget survey, which asked state Medicaid directors about new or enhanced initiatives involving public health in FY 2025 or planned for FY 2026.
KFF’s latest Health Tracking Poll finds that confidence in the independence of key government health agencies overseeing food and drug safety and public health is low among the public and across partisans. Most of the public also share a distrust of agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical companies to act in the public’s best interest, compared with…
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to…
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — In a midwife’s suburban Atlanta home with a playground and chicken coop outside, Madie Collins lay on an examination table while the midwife measured her pregnant belly. Unlike at many a doctor’s office, no crinkly paper sheet covered the table and no antiseptic chill lingered in the air. The room next…
Following a recent outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius, KFF Health News editor-at-large and infectious disease doctor Céline Gounder spoke to numerous media outlets about the risks from the disease. Here are some highlights from Gounder on the evolving story. WHO: Hantavirus Outbreak Risk to Public Is ‘Absolutely Low’ Gounder…