While much of the world was quarantining and working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were on the front-line treating patients, working to combat this public health crisis. To recognize this sacrifice, New York State announced on August 3, 2022 that $1.3 billion dollars will be allotted to fund the introduction of a Healthcare Worker Bonus Program. The […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a transformative effect on every aspect of the healthcare landscape, perhaps nowhere more so than in drug development as pharma companies have raced to find a cure. Gilead Sciences is one of these companies. With a 30-year history as a leader in virology spanning HIV and hepatitis drug development, a treatment for Covid-19 has been […]
Excitement is building about a new generation of drugs that tout the ability to help adults with excess weight shed more pounds than older drugs on the market. Some patients, obesity medicine specialists say, are experiencing decreases in blood pressure, better-managed diabetes, less joint pain, and better sleep from these newfound treatments. The newer drugs, which are repurposed diabetes drugs, […]
In another example of how we’re living in the future: NASA’s mission to deflect an asteroid — where it smashed a probe into a space rock on purpose — has been declared a success. Today in health, the bivalent omicron-specific COVID-19 boosters have been authorized for use in children as young as 5, expanding the fall and winter vaccine campaign. […]
Despite the fact that one in four Americans receive healthcare through Medicaid, research shows only 35% of psychiatrists actually accept it. Virtual mental health provider Brave Health is working to change that by primarily working with Medicaid plans. The company announced Tuesday it secured $40 million in Series C funding, which it will partially use to expand to more states, […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requested public input on creating a CMS-led national directory of providers and services last week. While America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) agrees with having a national directory, the organization has a slightly different vision for it. CMS is proposing a system in which it would collect information from providers that would go […]
When MDR providers add automated threat response, threat hunting and remediation capabilities to XDR, and when they offer access to skilled security analytics, they show that they’re “laser-focused” on defending healthcare organizations, Thorn says. They’re also going above and beyond what’s typically available from a managed security service provider. “MSSP services tend to be reactive in nature, focused on management, […]
More than 90 percent of physicians who are part of a labor union in Santa Clara County have voted to authorize a strike if the county continues to act in bad faith with regard to working conditions affecting patient care and physician’s mental health, the labor union Valley Physicians Group announced Tuesday. The VPG labor union includes more than 450 […]
WTF Health By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH At Dreamforce 2022, Salesforce’s big annual user conference, “real-time data” was THE topic of conversation as the tech company launched a brand-new platform across its lines of business to help make this type of data integration-plus-analytics “magically” easy. I caught up with Salesforce’s EVP & CRO of Global Health & Life Sciences, LaShonda […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed home health payment rule for 2023 reasonably ruffled feathers across the industry. When given the opportunity to respond, interested parties pointed out some of the potential effects of the proposal, if finalized. Among them: reduced access to care and a worsening patient-to-clinician ratio. One of the public commenters on the […]