Nearly two years ago, my husband and I left home for a skiing trip, excited and hopeful for carefree days on the mountain, and a much needed escape from our everyday routines. We never…
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Direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform Hims & Hers launched a new weight loss program Monday that offers weight loss medications, educational content and digital tracking tools.
San Francisco-based Hims & Hers is a health and wellness platform…
Like most physician specialties, radiology is experiencing a labor shortage driven by burnout and an aging workforce. AI is often heralded as something that can mitigate workforce issues in radiology and other healthcare sectors, but…
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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia has partnered with Aledade, a network of independent primary care practices, to improve access to value-based primary care for Medicaid members, the companies announced last week.
Bethesda,…
“I don’t think we talk enough about the tension between innovation and who pays for the innovation — and who can access it.”
Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and chief medical officer at Amazon Pharmacy…
The combination of medicine and information technology have at times created dissonance and dynamic tension. Medicine has historically relied on a slow, deliberate build-up to amass a body of evidence. Whereas development of information…
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Americans can’t afford their medications. About 25% leave prescriptions unfilled, split pills, or skip doses. Seniors face challenges covering non-Medicare services, including prescriptions. Even those with commercial health insurance are not immune. One-third of…
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AI development powerhouse Nvidia is launching a new set of cloud-based application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to speed up the creation and deployment of specialized AI models in the medical imaging field. The company…
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When I was practicing as a community pharmacist, I saw patients walk away from the counter without their prescription because they couldn’t pay for a drug they needed. I saw patients expecting that their…
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Healthcare organizations are one of the biggest targets of cyber attacks. A survey we conducted found that more than half of healthcare IT leaders report that their organization has faced a cybersecurity incident in…
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