Nomad Health plans to apply its technology-based staffing model to more jobs in healthcare after raising $105 million in equity and debt and hiring a top marketing executive. Announced this week, the funding round was led by Adams Street Partners and Icon Ventures and included participation from a new investor, HealthQuest Capital. The round brings Nomad’s fundraising total to more […]

Government advisers debated Tuesday if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall — and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then. “That’s the problem — we’re being asked to more or less have a crystal ball today,” said Dr. Arnold Monto of the University of Michigan, […]

First lady Jill Biden on Tuesday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade “unjust” and “so devastating” for the nation and millions of women who live in states that can now restrict abortion access. “But my message is let’s not give up, let’s keep working,” Jill Biden said during an interview with CBS. “If that means getting […]

It’s the best of times. It’s the worst of times — for telehealth companies, that is. No one category has seen its value in healthcare delivery be proven during the pandemic so much so that the digital transformation of healthcare has catapulted from nice-to-have to must-have. Yet, no other category has seen a reversal of fortune as it relates to […]

The Health and Human Services Department will enforce standing policies that protect access to reproductive healthcare and will consider taking additional steps in response to the Supreme Court ruling that ended the federal right to abortion, Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a news conference Tuesday. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday, leaving abortion laws up to the states. […]

What Is a Zero-Trust Identity Strategy? Identity is the foundation of a zero-trust framework rather than just a step in its implementation. A healthcare organization’s zero-trust environment cannot exist without considering all the discrete characteristics of identity anatomy. This should be embedded in every aspect of the zero-trust infrastructure. However, zero-trust identity cannot be achieved through a point solution. The […]

Concerns about adolescent mental health and substance use have increased recently, particularly in light of gun violence and the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, many adolescents have experienced worsened emotional health, increased stress, and a lack of peer connection. Other mental health and substance use concerns are on the rise – including drug overdose deaths, self-harm, and eating disorders. Simultaneously, […]

A Texas court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state’s long-dormant pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban that had suddenly been reinstated after Roe was struck down on Friday, a move that will allow some clinics to resume the practice. A Texas district court granted a preliminary injunction in response to a lawsuit from activist groups including the American Civil Liberties Union […]

Surging inflation has set the table for heated negotiations between providers and insurers. In May, year-over-year price increases of consumer goods and services outpaced healthcare inflation, bucking the historical trend. The consumer price index rose 8.6%, the steepest gain since December 1981. Medical expenditures grew 3.7% in May, the biggest year-over-year jump since September 2020, according to the most recent […]

Cambridge Health Alliance (Cambridge, Mass.), which provides child and adolescent inpatient mental health services, plans to open the Center for Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Somerville, Mass. The project will comprise 42 inpatient beds and outdoor recreation space for child, adolescent, and specialized youth patients with autism or neurodevelopmental needs.