Healthcare Design magazine, in partnership with The Center for Health Design, announced the winners of the 2022 Nightingale Awards at the he Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in San Antonio. The annual Nightingale Awards, which recognizes products related to the healthcare built environment, are named for Florence Nightingale, a tireless advocate for the improvement of care and conditions in military and civilian hospitals in […]
Telemedicine exploded in popularity after COVID-19 hit, but limits are returning for care delivered across state lines. That complicates follow-up treatments for some cancer patients. It also can affect other types of care, including mental health therapy and routine doctor check-ins. Over the past year, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., have ended emergency declarations that made it easier for […]
Interesting graphic from the Visual Capitalist. Unsurprisingly health care spending increases on both a relative and absolute scale as people age. HT: The Browser.
In this month’s podcast, Dr. Samy Anand gives an overview of the Medical Care Blog posts published in September and a preview of the journal articles in the October issue of Medical Care. Then, co-editor of the blog, Dr. Lisa Lines, discusses an article in the October issue in more detail. Below is a transcript of Lisa’s comments about the […]
Chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Monday warned that the U.S. should not ease up on its COVID-19 response as variants continue to circulate and as the country heads into the winter flu season. “We have a ways to go, particularly as we enter the winter, which will be complicated by the influenza season. So there’s no time, ma’am, to […]
Ochre Bio co-founders Quin Wills, chief scientific officer (left), and Jack O’Meara, CEO (right). Photo by Business Wire. A biotech startup developing RNA therapies for liver disease by running tests in live human livers has raised $30 million to identify a drug candidate to test in real live humans. Ochre Bio conducts its research with donor livers. These livers […]
Occasional aches and pains in your hip can be normal, but what about hip pain that doesn’t improve or continues to get worse? Have you tried resting and doing the exercises and stretches Dr. Google recommended, but nothing is helping? Have normal activities like putting on your socks and shoes become difficult? Hip problems are often confusing, as the symptoms […]
Touted as the only value-based pharmacy benefit manager, EmpiRx Health showed in data it released Thursday that while its company saw an increase in pharmacy claims for behavioral health treatments, costs decreased. It also saw a decrease in opioid claims and an increase in people with opioid use disorder in treatment, said CEO Karthik Ganesh. Montvale, New Jersey-based EmpiRx found […]
There’s a word we’re hearing more lately: Phygital. A linguistic mashup of the words “physical” and “digital,” it’s used to describe experiences that blend the physical environment with the digital one. This trend is happening in multiple industries to varying degrees of success. Think Amazon Go stores where you shop in a physical space but a digital interface automatically tracks […]