Two hospital-at-home providers, DispatchHealth and Medically Home, announced their plan to merge. Once combined, the company will provide in-home care across 50 major metropolitan areas and partner with nearly 40 health systems. The post DispatchHealth to Acquire Medically Home, Creating One Large Hospital-at-Home Provider appeared first on MedCity News.
Hank Capps, M.D., chief information and digital officer for Wellstar, joins Terrarium CEO Mark Rosenblum to discuss working with early stage startups
According to the Washington Post, at least 390,000 students were exposed to a school shooting (exposure is defined as students attending a school at which a shooting occurred during the current school year) since the 1999 Columbine shooting. This brief analyzes the rate of student exposure to school shootings over time at the national and…
Sarepta Therapeutics said the Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient recently had a cytomegalovirus infection, which can damage the liver and may have contributed to the fatality. It’s the first patient death out of more than 800 patients treated with Elevidys, a gene therapy for the rare muscle-wasting disease. The post Liver Failure-Associated Death Reported in Patient…
These global health budget summaries highlight key information about global health funding levels throughout the federal budget and appropriations process.
On March 15, 2025, the President signed a full-year “continuing resolution” (CR) that continues funding the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year. It maintains U.S. global health funding at the prior year (FY 2024) level ($10.8 billion).[i] The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which was passed by the House on…More
The key to realizing the full potential of legacy systems in modern healthcare lies in overcoming interoperability challenges — ensuring seamless data exchange between various systems while preserving the trusted reliability and security healthcare providers depend on. The post Modernizing Fax Systems in Healthcare: A Reliable Foundation for Interoperability appeared first on MedCity News.
Program integrity efforts work to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, to increase program transparency and accountability, and to recover improperly used funds. This brief explains what is known about improper payments and fraud and abuse in Medicaid and describes ongoing state and federal actions to address program integrity.
We need to embrace a more holistic, integrated approach to mental healthcare: one that combines the best of human expertise with rapid innovations of technology, all while being mindful of the real-world challenges faced by marginalized and underserved communities. The post Reimagining Mental Healthcare: We Need A New Road, Not A Bigger Truck appeared first…
In 2019, Cristina Iglesias filed a lawsuit that changed the course of treatment for herself and other transgender inmates in federal custody. Iglesias, a trans woman who had been incarcerated for more than 25 years, was transferred from a men’s prison to a women’s one in 2021. And in 2022, she reached a landmark settlement…