AHRQ to Fund State-Based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives
With an initial focus on behavioral health, up to 15 cooperatives will use the funding to build their capacity to implement patient-centered, evidence-based healthcare delivery improvements
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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Live from Austin, Examining Health Equity
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner 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 to…
En los comerciales de medicamentos en TV, lo que ves no siempre es lo que es
La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de Opdivo+Yervoy, una combinación de inmunoterapias para tratar el melanoma metastásico y el cáncer de pulmón. Los comerciales de Skyrizi, un medicamento para tratar la psoriasis en placas y otras enfermedades, muestran a los pacientes buceando…
El secretario de Salud Xavier Becerra anunció protecciones contra el calor extremo; trabajadores agrícolas quieren más
CLARKSBURG, California. – En una soleada mañana de agosto, en este pueblo agrícola, antes que las temperaturas se dispararan hasta los 103 grados Fahrenheit, el secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) de Estados Unidos, Xavier Becerra, se paró frente a la pequeña biblioteca pública. Becerra venía a hablar de los esfuerzos de la administración…
How Embedded Finance Creates a Better Patient Experience
In an age where consumers have more options than ever about where to receive their care, improving the financial experience through embedded finance can give providers an advantage in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The post How Embedded Finance Creates a Better Patient Experience appeared first on MedCity News.
Merger Brings Together 3 Payment Integrity Companies
New Mountain Capital bringing together the Rawlings Group, Apixio’s Payment Integrity business, and VARIS
There is Still a Significant Need for Community Pharmacies
Losing these retail medication outlets creates more than just pharmacy deserts. In many low-income and underserved areas, drugstores also serve as grocery stores and hubs for essential services, and hence their closures mean communities lose crucial access points for a variety of goods and services. The post There is Still a Significant Need for Community…
It’s Time to Actively Manage Medications at the Individual Level
Any successful response to skyrocketing drug costs has to also actively manage medications at the individual level — just because someone can be on a medication doesn’t mean they should be. The post It’s Time to Actively Manage Medications at the Individual Level appeared first on MedCity News.
CMS Notifies People Potentially Impacted by Data Breach
WPS notified CMS that files containing protected health information were compromised in a cybersecurity incident involving MOVEit
With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get
Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination of immunotherapies to treat metastatic melanoma and lung cancer. Ads for Skyrizi, a medicine to treat plaque psoriasis and other illnesses, show patients snorkeling and riding bikes — flashing their rash-free elbows. People with Type…