There’s a hesitancy of residency students to understand and validate how AI can be used in medical care, says Dr. Patrick Thomas, director of digital innovation in pediatric surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine.  

Vaccinations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an upper respiratory virus that typically thrives in colder weather, may soon extend to adults in their 50s thanks to a priority review granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Rising Medicare Advantage utilization among older U.S. adults, as well as rate cuts for 2025, are likely to be credit-neutral to the healthcare industry, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

Tom Lawry’s HIMSS24 sessions will focus on the realities of AI: stemming nurse burnout by ending their role as data entry clerks, and nursing informatics, says the managing director at Second Century Tech.  

The Administration for Community Living has released a final rule that updates regulations for implementing its Older Americans Act (OAA) programs for the first time since 1988, aiming to better support the national aging network that delivers OAA services and improve program implementation.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed former CVS executive Mary Langowski as executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare.  Langowski replaces current executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare, John Driscoll, who will transition to a senior advisory role working closely with CEO Tim Wentworth, Langowski and the U.S. Healthcare business, Walgreens said. 

Telehealth utilization increased nationally and in every U.S. census region in November 2023, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. The widespread increases followed a month of varied changes in October.

The Health Resources and Services Administration is leveraging new legal authority proposed in the President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, issuing requests for proposals in advance of executing multiple different contract awards meant to increase competition as part of its Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Modernization Initiative.

Amazon is reportedly cutting over 100 jobs at One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, according to a letter to employees from Amazon Healthcare Services executive Neil Lindsay.

Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state.  But it’s the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers from throughout the state – Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial healthcare payers – incentivize value and quality, with a focus on health […]