A federal judge has ruled that abortion services can resume in the state of Louisiana, blocking the state’s from enforcing its so-called trigger ban.  Judge Donald Johnson granted a temporary restraining order to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and set a hearing on the case for July 18. CRR, along with ​​Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, last month challenged the […]

Moving Analytics, an Irvine, California-based telehealth startup that provides remote cardiac rehab, recently announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding.  The round was co-led by Wellington Access Ventures and Seae Ventures, with participation from Philips Ventures, SteelSky Ventures, Aphelion Capital, Nueterra Capital and Citi Ventures. The financing brings the company’s total funding to $30 million. The company […]

Health Tech By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH In the ‘point solution versus platform’ debate, mark another score for integration as Vida Health jumps into the musculoskeletal (MSK) care space. This is a move we’ve seen before among the digital health chronic condition management set (remember when Omada acquired Physera, Dario Health acquired Upright, and everyone was waiting to see if […]

Healthcare regulations could be thrown into question following a Supreme Court decision last month that curtails a different agency’s authority to interpret laws. While the ruling may not have much of an immediate impact on healthcare, it creates a landscape of uncertainty that could hamper healthcare companies that need regulatory clarity to plan ahead. The Supreme Court ruled that a […]

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not proposed a negative aggregate payment adjustment for home health agencies for the following year since 2018. That stable Medicare-reimbursement landscape, in turn, has allowed home health operators to grow their businesses and test out new, innovative care models, while also investing in their workforce. This period of stability, however, […]

Dive Brief: Hospital-acquired, antibiotic-resistant infections grew 15% from 2019 to 2020, according to data out Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 30,000 people died from those infections in the first year of the pandemic and about 40% were infected during a hospital stay, according to the CDC. Personal protective equipment and staffing shortages; longer patient stays […]

Key Facts Although the U.S. has been involved in efforts to address the global AIDS crisis since the mid-1980s, the creation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003 marked a significant increase in funding and attention to the epidemic. PEPFAR is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in the world; to […]

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the constitutional right to abortion is creating “chaos” in the health care sector as some states see a spike in women seeking abortions and physicians are unsure of their legal rights, lawmakers were told in a hearing on Tuesday.  The ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has quickly created a patchwork […]

A breach at software company Eye Care Leaders in December potentially affected nearly 1.3 million patients at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Eye Care Leaders shared final results of its forensic investigation with the medical school in April, according to a notice from the center, and the school reported it to the Office for Civil Rights in June. Baptist […]

Hace cuatro años, cuando Karen Giuliano fue admitida en un hospital de Boston para una cirugía de reemplazo de cadera, recibió una caja rosa con artículos de tocador: pañuelos, jabón, desodorante, pasta dental y, sin duda, el peor cepillo de dientes que vio en su vida. “No podía creerlo. Tenía un cepillo de dientes sin cerdas”, dijo. “Era solo un […]