Seniors on Medicare Advantage health plans may not always be receiving high quality care, a new study shows. The study from RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, looked at 15 different quality measures from patients on MA plans during 2016 and 2017 and found that the quality of care was only slightly better when compared to plans that didn’t have […]
Healthcare providers need better algorithms to predict opioid dependency, especially among Medicaid patients, according to new research from Stanford University and Gainwell. Stanford researchers teamed up with healthcare technology company Gainwell to use the company’s datasets — 180,000 de-identified Medicaid claims from six states (three in the Southeast, two in the West and one in the Midwest). Their research revealed […]
What Is N3C, and What’s the Technology Behind It? Dr. Kenneth Gersing, director of informatics at NCATS, says the organization gets groups to work together and turns data silos into a network through shared services. To make a program such as N3C possible, it’s important for NCATS to find economies of scale. The organization also leads the Rare Diseases Clinical […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters, opening the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves. The new boosters targeting today’s most common omicron strains should begin arriving in pharmacies and clinics within days. The decision by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky came […]
Ambulatory care providers added 21,900 jobs in August, including 15,200 at physicians’ offices and 4,600 at outpatient centers. Hospitals added 14,700 jobs, a promising sign as the sector continues to struggle with staff shortages and high labor costs. In July, hospitals added 13,800 jobs. Nursing and residential care added 11,600 jobs in August, compared with 8,700 jobs during the prior […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in both our healthcare system and its facilities. One major weakness is tied to health equity—specifically, the industry has realized the myriad ways that both our system and facilities have fallen short in delivering it. On the system side, a measure to correct course was just announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
The pursuit of health equity requires public health and medical professionals to become adept at policy in their health advocacy work. The American Public Health Association (APHA), in fact, defines policy work as one of its 10 essential public health services. APHA says professionals should be capable of “creating, championing and implementing policies, plans and laws”. At the University of Kansas […]
By augmenting the embryologist in selecting the most viable embryo, there is potential for AI to help a patient conceive in one or two cycles, reducing the inherent cost of IVF therapy, and making the treatment more accessible to diverse populations that often don’t have ease of access to treatments today.