The American Medical Association pledged to fight legislation that expands mid-level providers’ autonomy. Under a new policy proposal adopted Tuesday by the AMA House of Delegates, the trade group will support research on the cost and quality of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other advanced practice practitioners caring for patients without a doctor’s supervision. The association will help craft state […]
COVID-19 vaccines have had a huge beneficial impact on patient health. One study found that between December 2020 and June 2021, COVID-19 vaccines saved 240,000 lives (Vilches et al. 2022). The figure below shows that as the Delta and Omicron variants spread in the fall of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented significant number of deaths according […]
Back in 2020, in the immediate wake of the pandemic, we were celebrating the coming of age of digital health – the 25X to 50X increase in telehealth visits, the explosion in VC funding for digital health startups delivering point solutions for digital engagement and access to care, the sense of the dawn of a new and exciting era in […]
For those who crave pizza-related news, Little Caesars is now the official pizza sponsor for the NFL, replacing Pizza Hut, which has held the position for four years. (Someone actually out-pizza’d The Hut.) The World Health Organization is set to meet to decide if monkeypox is a global health emergency. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest […]
Denise Cardo, MD Denise Cardo, MDDirector, Division of Healthcare Quality PromotionNational Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseasesat the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The past two years have been an extraordinary time for the U.S. healthcare system and public health. Many healthcare facilities and healthcare workers were pushed to the brink—facing incredible hurdles during the COVID-19 pandemic, including […]
The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that two hospital systems in New Jersey that were planning to merge have canceled those plans, following an FTC complaint that a merger would be anticompetitive. “The transaction would have combined two hospitals located less than a mile from each other, which also happen to be the only two hospitals in the city of […]