Can digital health tools help manage mental healthcare and reduce dependency on drugs? – MedCity News

Can digital health tools help manage mental healthcare and reduce dependency on drugs? – MedCity News

The behavioral health segment of digital health has grabbed a lot of attention, especially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, digital health startups offering mental healthcare raised $5.1 billion, outstripping all other clinical indications by a whopping $3.3 billion and nearly double 2020’s funding total, according to a Rock Health report analyzing investment trends in 2021. The […]

Casey Hammer: Everything To Know About Armie Hammer’s Aunt Revealing Family Secrets In New Doc

Casey Hammer: Everything To Know About Armie Hammer’s Aunt Revealing Family Secrets In New Doc

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock “On the outside, we were a perfect family. But magnify Succession a million times, and it was my family,” Casey Hammer said in the trailer for House Of Hammer, the three-part Discovery+ docuseries on the Hammer family. Casey, the aunt of the disgraced actor, is at the forefront of the look at the Hammer […]

Women’s Health: 5 Reasons Why Your Period Is So Heavy

Women’s Health: 5 Reasons Why Your Period Is So Heavy

Oh, the love-hate relationship women have with their periods! This rush of emotions starts as early as age 12 all the way to the age of 50 when menopause takes the baton and glides us into another phase of life. During this timeframe, some women have to deal with volatile menstrual experiences. Few have it easy, while others occasionally deal […]

DeSantis sues FDA in push to import prescription drugs from Canada

DeSantis sues FDA in push to import prescription drugs from Canada

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming the federal agency has unlawfully delayed approval of a state program that would allow the state to import prescription drugs from Canada to lower medication costs for Floridians. DeSantis said the FDA has violated federal law by dragging out […]

Medicare Shared Savings Program saved more than $1.6B in 2021, CMS says – MedCity News

Medicare Shared Savings Program saved more than $1.6B in 2021, CMS says – MedCity News

The Medicare Shared Savings Program saved Medicare $1.66 billion in 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. This is the fifth consecutive year the program has created savings. The Medicare Shared Savings Program works with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are groups of physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers. These ACOs collaborate to provide high quality care […]

CMS proposes big changes to Medicaid, CHIP enrollment

CMS proposes big changes to Medicaid, CHIP enrollment

Applying for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program benefits would become much easier under a proposed rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published Wednesday. The draft regulation includes several policies that would ease access to the low-income health programs, such as limiting eligibility checks to once every 12 months, requiring renewal forms to be pre-populated with certain information and establishing […]

Cargo Denim Is 2022’s Anti-Skinny Jeans Trend

Cargo Denim Is 2022’s Anti-Skinny Jeans Trend

A similar phenomenon has happened with its denim counterpart. On the runways, designers showed club-ready versions of cargo jeans, as well as styles more suited for errands. Y2K-ready brand Blumarine showed a set of denim cargo pants, paired with a butterfly-motif chain belt for spring 2022. Meanwhile, Diesel — another popular brand from the aughts — included a dark wash […]

Children’s Hospitals Find Space to Grow Through the Cloud

Children’s Hospitals Find Space to Grow Through the Cloud

Until recently, Children’s National researchers got around their computational limitations either by working with preprocessed data or by breaking large data sets into smaller portions that their systems could digest. But today, Kaplarevic says, they’re taking a different approach, leveraging what he calls the “enormous horsepower and versatility” of the cloud. Children’s National, primarily through its electronic health records system, […]