In an effort to increase access to naloxone, Walgreens has said that over-the-counter (OTC) NARCAN nasal spray will be available at its stores and online this month, with nationwide availability beginning today. This follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval earlier this year.
Respiratory syncytial virus activity is on the rise in the Southeast, and with numbers ticking up over recent weeks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that numbers are likely to rise nationally over the next several months.
Use cases must make sense, rather than being forced because of emerging tech or AI, says Aster DM Healthcare Group CIO Veneeth Purushotaman.
Medicare Advantage has steadily grown in popularity and now covers slightly more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and one of the drivers of this growth has been people switching from traditional Medicare, especially younger and healthier patients, a
About two-thirds of nurses say they’re satisfied with their career, with eight in 10 saying they’re likely to stay in healthcare. But according to a new Jarrard survey, there’s room for improvement, particularly when it comes to onboarding and career development.
On September 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed minimum nursing standards for nursing homes, days Kaiser Health News published a study commissioned by CMS that said there was “no single staffing level that would guarantee quality care.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the voluntary States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model in which participating hospitals would receive a fixed payment amount in advance of a prospectively set budget per year.
Quality issues are still the number one reason for drug shortages, and in an effort to address this, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debuting a quality management maturity (QMM) program intended to incentivize drugmakers to invest in quality measures.
Healthcare is a growing sector of the economy including the export of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and devices, says Filipe Santos Costa, chairman and CEO of AICEP.
Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC), a California healthcare system that operates multiple providers including a hospital and several clinics, has agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. The alleged false claims […]