Four U.S. senators led by Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have sent letters to the four largest inhaler manufacturers – AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Teva Pharmaceuticals – informing them of an investigation into inhaler prices, which the senators called “outrageous.”
Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $360 million to Humana to settle a lawsuit alleging the retail pharmacy overcharged for prescription drug reimbursements.
GenAI can help solve healthcare challenges, but at some point it becomes hard to explain what it’s doing, says Dr. Rebecca G. Mishuris, CMIO and VP at Mass General Brigham.
UNC Health first made investments on AI in 2016, with the early development work focused on care redesign, algorithms and sepsis, says University of North Carolina Health Chief Analytics Officer Rachini Moosavi.
Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) and Essentia Health have called off their merger talks and will not be moving forward with their proposed integration, the organizations said. The two entities have “engaged in meaningful discussion” over the last two years about how they could combine their strengths, they said, but have decided that a merger […]
Mask mandates have returned in at least four states as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and other respiratory infections rise. Healthcare facilities in New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts have made masks mandatory among patients and providers, according to Reuters.
CVS Health Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance Tom Cowhey has been serving as the company’s interim chief financial officer since October, and has now been appointed as permanent CFO, CVS recently announced. CEO of Oak Street Health and interim lead of Health Care Delivery, Mike Pykosz, has been formally appointed President of Health Care […]
AI innovation at the Cleveland Clinic is in its early days, but there are a number of initiatives focused on the pathology and lab areas and supporting physicians to optimize their workflows, says Chief Analytics Officer Albert Marinez.
Elevance Health is looking to expand, entering into an agreement late last week to acquire Paragon Healthcare, a company specializing in infusible and injectable therapies.