Health Tech It’s the scandal inside the scandal, and we’ve got the scoop! Check out this episode of Health Tech Deals to learn more about Facebook, health data, and American Hospitals. Is someone stealing someone else’s activity and not getting rewarded for it? What about HIPPAA violations? All these questions and more are answered, along with some new deals: Sana […]
U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots, about 1 […]
Real estate investment company Simone Healthcare Development (Bronx, N.Y.) and integrated health system Catholic Health (Buffalo, N.Y.) are partnering on a new project. Together, they will transform a former retail store into Simone Healthcare Development for Catholic Health Ambulatory & Urgent Care at Centereach in Centereach, N.Y. The 63,000-square-foot project will house primary care, women’s health, behavioral health, cardiology, neurosciences, […]
Drugmaker acquisitions of all sizes could receive closer scrutiny in the future if the Federal Trade Commission follows the advice of experts who spoke at a two-day agency meeting on market concentration and anticompetitive conduct. The experts, mostly economists and other antitrust regulators, warned that some drugmakers have gained unfair market power due to the breadth of their product portfolios, […]
Until last year, Georgia’s Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days. That meant the Medicaid benefits of many women expired before they could be referred to other medical providers for help with serious health problems, said Dr. Keila Brown, an OB-GYN in Atlanta. “If they needed other postpartum issues followed up, it was rather difficult to […]
Read any hospital design article or walk the floors of any healthcare trade show and you will see these three words: “Easy to Clean.” With the growing awareness of the role of the environment in infection control, it’s no surprise that furniture and equipment designers are looking to make their products easy to clean. What what does that really mean? […]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Thursday announced the recall of over 400,000 bottles of over-the-counter medicine due to issues with the child-resistant packaging, which did not meet the requirements in the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). Aurohealth recalled about 137,300 units of Walgreens brand acetaminophen, as well as approximately 25,660 units of Kroger brand arthritis pain acetaminophen. Time-Cap […]
There are many holy grails in the healthcare world: solving interoperability issues, achieving health equity and a universal patient record. Grail, the liquid biopsy company based in Menlo Park, California, is on another, equally challenging, quest: making sure fewer people die from cancer. Last June, the company introduced Galleri, a test that screens patients for more than 50 kinds of […]
Jimmy Mayor is not sure what his next appointment at OU Health in Oklahoma City will cost. Mayor, 59, relies on disability insurance for his income after working as a commercial loan servicer for 20 years. He is among as many as 140,000 UnitedHealthcare policyholders slated to lose in-network access to Oklahoma’s only academic medical center on July 1. “I […]
Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s (Charleston, S.C.) Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital in Summerville, S.C., is planning to more than double in size within four years. The expansion is part of a new strategic plan. The healthcare system’s certificate of need was approved to build an additional four-story tower on its campus. The $193 million project will take the hospital’s beds […]