In 2022, there were more data breaches through the end of September than for similar periods in all previous years.

The private equity fund Tenex Capital is reportedly seeking a buyer for Team Select Home Care, a home-based care services provider that serves the medically complex pediatric population as part of its business model. Tenex has begun taking bids on Team Select in a process that started about a month ago, according to Axios. The financials of the process include […]

The Trump administration regularly interfered with the Centers for Disease Control’s process for developing and issuing guidance about the coronavirus, changed scientific reports and undermined top public health officials, a congressional panel said Monday. Interviews, emails and other documents obtained by the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis showed how Trump administration political officials took control of CDC’s public […]

The healthcare industry has been turned on its head in the last two years, and is still reeling from supply chain disruptions, staffing shortages, high rates of physician burnout, and uncertainty over the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. What has been clear to many healthcare leaders during the pandemic is that their organization’s data can be incredibly useful in helping them to […]

In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured. This miraculous outcome broke open a whole new field in medicine—and, not long after, a whole new industry aimed at getting expecting parents to bank their baby’s umbilical-cord […]

Gilead Sciences has expanded its cancer therapies portfolio and pipeline by striking deals and its latest one has the pharmaceutical company partnering with MacroGenics on the development of bispecific antibody drugs for cancer. Gilead is paying $60 million up front to kick off the alliance, which gives the Foster City, California-based drugmaker an option to license MGD024, a drug in […]

Two and a half years in to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages remain. Health systems are paying higher prices to secure workers. Supply costs are elevated and some service lines have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. As a result, many hospitals were operating in the red in the first half of 2022, with executives concerned about the financial ramifications […]

With staff shortages persisting in healthcare, more care is being provided by less experienced nurses. To provide support to recent nursing graduates, Atrium Health in North Carolina launched its virtual nursing observation program in March 2021. The program connects newer nurses with nursing veterans via video. Many experienced nurses are nearing retirement age or, due to burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, are interested in leaving […]

Desde el lunes 17 de octubre, miles de consumidores podrán comprar audífonos directamente en las tiendas, y a precios dramáticamente más bajos, gracias a una ley federal de 2017 que está entrando en vigencia. Durante décadas, estos dispositivos solo pudieron comprarse con receta médica y desembolsando miles de dólares. Ahora, una nueva categoría de audífonos de venta libre costarán desde […]

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded affordable health coverage options in the U.S., helping to reduce the number of uninsured individuals. Even so, KFF has found that most people who remain uninsured are nonetheless eligible for coverage and financial assistance through the Marketplace or Medicaid. Many consumers – including most uninsured – have limited awareness of affordable coverage options available […]