In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch’s in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health. DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical…
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The Lown Institute has released its 2023 Shkreli Awards, highlighting “the worst in healthcare profiteering and dysfunction.” The selection panel includes clinicians, journalists, patient advocates, and health policy experts.
In case anyone doesn’t recognize…
UK Digital Health and Care (UKDHC), a new UK membership body, has been launched to provide a home for professionals in the sector.The launch of the new body comes with the imminent demise of…
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NHS England (NHSE) will investigate whether US data analytics giant Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform (FDP) by launching a covert influencer campaign targeting legal transparency non-profit…
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Hospitals seriously improved their compliance with price transparency regulations in 2023, according to a report released Thursday by Turquoise Health.
CMS began enforcing its price transparency rule on the first day of 2021. The law…
Doctors at Englewood Health in New Jersey are using the Ion endoluminal system from Intuitive Surgical to take tissue biopsies from the hard-to-reach outer third of the lung to identify early-stage lung cancer.WHY IT…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has temporarily paused the International Trade Commission’s exclusion order banning sales and imports of Apple’s Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S….
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The New York State Attorney General on Wednesday announced a major new settlement around one health system’s use of privacy-violating online pixel technology.WHY IT MATTERSNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will pay $300,000 for its use of third-party…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation hacked into and seized the Russia-based ALPHV or Blackcat ransomware’s darknet website and infrastructure, according to a Department of Justice announcement Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS
Alongside FBI Miami, the U.S. Secret…
Mr. H posed a question last week about how to streamline training for PCPs and asked me to weigh in as well.
To really answer the question, we have to ask ourselves what we…
