Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya is Trump’s Pick for NIH
President-elect Trump tapped Professor Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford University, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The announcement was made on Tuesday by the transition team. During the pandemic, Bhattacharya expressed criticism of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “Bhattacharya became the face… of a fiercely contested open
What Can We Expect From This Year’s RSNA Conference?
Next week, when I enter the vast city of Chicago McCormick Place Convention Center—at 2.6 million square feet, spread across four enormous buildings, it is the largest convention center in North America, and one of the largest in the world, and certainly one of the busiest—it will be fascinating to
Q&A: Harbor Health’s Clay Johnston on Offering Employers Direct Primary Care
Austin, Texas-based Harbor Health, a new group of primary and specialty clinics, now offers Central Texas employers a direct primary care option, providing employees with a full spectrum of primary care services on a cost-effective basis. free. Harbor co-founder Clay Johnston, Ph.D., MD, MPH, who previously served as the inaugural
Does NICE consider real-world data (RWD) for HTA evaluations? – Healthcare Economist
The answer is “yes”, but the question is in what way? an article from Che et al. (2024) examines the use of real-world data (RWD) in ETS evaluations from 2016-2023. During this period, 11% of STD presentations included real-world data. Furthermore, they find that: The main sources of RWD considered
Eric Topol: AI Will Usher In a Whole New Era in Medicine
In a very stimulating conference, Eric Topol, MDBestselling author and practicing cardiologist at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego and editor-in-chief of medical landscape, told a standing-room-only audience at the Dec. 2 plenary session in RSNA24: this year’s conference of the Radiological Society of North America—That artificial intelligence will transform
Joint Commission, Quality Association Form Alliance
Although they will remain independent, the Joint Commission and the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) have announced a strategic alliance to promote the quality and safety of healthcare. The organizations say the alliance arises from a shared vision of safe, high-quality and equitable healthcare between NAHQ, whose focus is
Commonwealth Fund: Underinsurance Is Undermining Americans’ Health
On November 21, leaders of The Commonwealth FundThe New York City-based public interest foundation released its latest report on consumers’ health insurance coverage, a biennial report called “The State of U.S. Health Insurance in 2024: Results from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey.” The report reveals significant challenges around
Report: HHS Continues to Have Challenges with Cybersecurity in Healthcare
On November 13, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the cybersecurity challenges of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). GAO urged HHS to implement its previous recommendations to address the challenges. “As the lead federal agency for the healthcare and public health sector,
UC Healthcare Workers Go on Strike Across California
Yesterday, thousands of University of California (UC) healthcare workers began a two-day strike across California. KTLA Tony Kurzweil denounced on November 20 that, according to the union, UC representatives had negotiated illegally In a notice in your websiteunion AFSCME Local 3299 stated: “UC’s illegal conduct—from showing up to negotiations without
Need for Efficiency Drives Healthcare AI Market
Financial news media reported on November 20 that the healthcare AI market exhibits a high degree of innovation, characterized by continuous technological advances. “Rapid advances in machine learning (ML), deep learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision are driving the evolution of AI-powered healthcare solutions.“ TO report by Big
Broward Health, Nicklaus Children’s to Collaborate on Pediatrics
Broward Health, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Nicklaus Children’s Health System have approved an affiliation agreement to collaborate on the expansion and improvement of pediatric services throughout Broward County, with the goal of fully integrating and enriching the offerings of pediatric care for the latter part of 2025. .
CommonSpirit Forms Alliance With University of Utah Health
Catholic health system CommonSpirit Health and University of Utah Health have announced a “strategic clinical alliance” under which patients at the five CommonSpirit hospitals in Utah will have access to University of Utah Health physicians and providers. As a community partner, CommonSpirit said it would expand University of Utah Health’s
