Digital health and patient expert Birgit Bauer discusses the core aspects of the Gravitate Health project and her role in the project’s user advisory group.
Beginning this week, Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin testing for monkeypox using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an ordinance into law which raises the minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25 per hour at eligible private healthcare facilities.
UnitedHealth Group’s provider arm, Optum Health, has teamed up with Red Ventures on a new consumer health-focused joint venture, RVO Health, which among other things includes doctor ratings through Healthgrades. Red Ventures is a portfolio of bands that includes Healthgrades, Healthline Media, Optum Perks and Optum Store, as well as virtual coaching programs. Those will […]
In order to help discriminated groups and reduce health disparities, key stakeholders must show “amazing leadership and be incredibly brave,” in helping disadvantaged groups and reducing disparity in healthcare, according to Steve Gilbert, a serious mental illness living experience consultant and anti-racism advisor.
The American Medical Association has criticized the new Medicare payment schedule proposed rule released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, saying it fails to account for inflation in practice costs and “COVID-19-related challenges to practice sustainability.”
There is a low risk of transmission of monkeypox in healthcare settings, according to a June study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to avoid a shortfall in the Medicare Hospital Insurance Fund by closing tax loopholes and redirecting tax revenue in a push to keep the fund solvent by at least another decade.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, announced it has secured 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. The protein-based, adjuvanted vaccine will be made available for free to states, jurisdictions, federal pharmacy partners and federally qualified health centers if it receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
According to Moffitt Cancer Center’s vice president of digital innovation, Santosh Mohan, oncology providers and startups can work together to improve the patient and clinician experience.