Three panels. One great city. Can’t wait for the conversations at ISPOR 2024 in Montréal. GCEA: Where do we go from here? (14 May, 5-6pm)Should we finally rethink the 3% discount rate? (15 May, 3:15-4:15pm)How can HEOR support providers in value-based care? (16 May, 10-11am) I’ll be diving into all three — including teaming up with…
A couple of weeks back Transcarent completed its $630m acquisition of Accolade. But CEO Glen Tullman calls it a merger for a reason because Accolade brings people, products and clients that Transcarent didn’t have. Glen got in deep about Transcarent’s new product set in terms of its AI fueled navigation, primary care, weight management, cancer…
Alzheimer’s costs American families upwards of $360 billion per year, and with our growing aging population, the disease needs to be more of a public health priority. The post The Dementia Diagnosis Gap Is Wider Than We Think appeared first on MedCity News.
It’s time that the healthcare industry transitioned from isolated point solutions to an integrated care model that incorporates remote monitoring and virtual care management. The post Acuity-driven Care — Leveraging Multi-level Monitoring for Complex Needs appeared first on MedCity News.
This analysis examines the share of inpatient hospital days that are covered by Medicaid nationally and by state at a time when Congress is considering potential cuts to the program. It finds that Medicaid covered at least one in five inpatient hospital days in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2023.
[Sponsored] Scheduled for May 8 at 1 pm ET, the conversation will include Morgan Cheatham, head of healthcare and life sciences at Breyer Capital, Gurdane Bhutani, founder and managing partner of MBX Capital, and will be moderated by Mercury Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences Ben Kromnick. The post What Do Early Stage Life Science…
Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute — or threaten to prosecute — people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by traveling to another state. One of the plaintiffs, the reproductive justice nonprofit…
People who work in real-life emergency rooms have raved about how the new TV drama “The Pitt” accurately captures the complex dynamics of their workplaces and the medical details of their cases. Host Dan Weissmann talks with Alex Janke, an emergency medicine doctor and health policy researcher, about how the show stacks up against his…
The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted the money from…
Like bandaids, AI chatbots can comfort us in times of desperation. But healing a wound takes more than a comforting bandaid. The post Are Therapy-Bots Really Our Best Chance At Solving Population Mental Health? appeared first on MedCity News.