In a previous posts, we explored the idea of evidence-based design, the place where science and aesthetics join forces to help patients and healthcare professionals. Today’s post highlights one of today’s hybrid designers who is paving the way towards the hospital room of the future, Megan Kalina. This Medical Planner’s ideas come to life in life-saving healthcare facilities around the country.
Tiger Woods missed the cut at the British Open, but received a thunderous ovation from the crowd at his final hole — possibly his final time playing competitively at the iconic St. Andrews course. Today we’ll look at President Biden’s call for senators to pass a health care-only reconciliation bill after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) once again dashed Democrats’ hopes of including […]
Health Tech I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quickbite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am going to dribble them out this week. Next up is Kristin Herrera, […]
Hospital outpatient providers could see a $6.2 billion increase in Medicare reimbursements next year under a proposed rule issued Friday. In addition, the draft regulation provides more details on the agency’s new rural emergency hospital program, which is designed to help facilities in remote areas remain open. Medicare would pay 2.7% more for outpatient and ambulatory surgical center services in […]
A draft version of Medicare’s unified post-acute care payment model dropped earlier this month. Already, health care stakeholders are describing the plan as an “unworkable” model with “numerous fundamental flaws.” The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), were charged with developing a universal, site-neutral payment model for post-acute […]
A number of lawmakers voted against their parties Friday on two bills to protect abortion access, which the House passed exactly three weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The lower chamber voted 223-205 on the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, a measure that seeks to protect women who travel to a different state to receive an abortion […]
Novartis’s main offerings for cardiovascular disease are drugs prescribed as a response to symptoms. However, heart problems can develop years before signs appear and the pharmaceutical giant wants to find new approaches to these disorders. A new partnership aims to develop artificial intelligence-based software that detects hidden cardiovascular conditions. The collaboration is with Anumana, company that develops algorithms that […]
President Joe Biden seemed to bow Friday to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand for a slimmed-down economic package, telling Democrats to quickly push the measure through Congress so families could “sleep easier” and enjoy the healthcare savings it proposes. Biden’s statement came hours after Manchin, the West Virginian who is one of Congress’ more conservative Democrats, said that if party leaders […]
This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenges. Pino also shares why he views the IHCS model as “the future of health […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced legislation seeking to offer expanded resources to pregnant women Thursday, including a website that provides information on the risks of abortion and alternatives to the procedure. A bill introduced by Rubio in the Senate, in addition to a companion bill offered by Mace in the House, would instruct the Health […]