Raising $60 million, Tuesday Health has launched an app and supportive care for seriously-ill Medicare patients in partnership with Valtruis, Blue Venture Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures and CareSource.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again sounding the alarm bell on bird flu, and is asking health officials in all 50 states to continue monitoring the prevalence of H5N1 infections even during the warmer months. While respiratory viruses tend to spread more easily during colder months, bird flu infections among poultry […]
Other innovations include virtual bedside nursing support, ambient AI for documentation and population health strategies, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director, health informatics at Trinity Health.
Medicaid value-based primary care company Cityblock is teaming with Florida-based Sunshine Health, a Centene subsidiary, to provide primary care and care coordination services to high-need, hard-to-reach Medicaid members in 11 Central Florida counties. The partnership, which began this month, includes wrap-around services offered to members 24/7 and across modalities, allowing members the option to see […]
A new pharmacy model from Optum Rx called Clear Trend Guarantee is seeking to increase transparency around drug costs for members. The pharmacy services arm of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Optum Rx is promising that its price-centered offering will offer drug benefit plan sponsors greater predictability of pharmacy spend to help manage the total lowest net cost.
An appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling on 340B that sided with drug manufacturers. At issue is whether pharmaceutical companies can limit distribution of discounted drugs in the 340B program. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has said that they can.
Making patients aware of medications that are potentially dangerous is important, but alert fatigue poses a threat to physician wellness and burnout, says First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz.
Mental health inequities may not only harm individuals but also hinder economic prosperity. A new Deloitte analysis projects mental health inequities could total about $478 billion in avoidable costs throughout the rest of this year.
The health system uses ambient documentation, but whatever works for physicians is the most efficient system, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski.
The Cleveland Clinic is paying $7.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting federal grant applications and progress reports to the National Institutes of Health that failed to disclose information about a key employee involved in administering the grants. The individual involved had pending and/or active financial research support […]