BREAKING: Police Apprehend Suspect in Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO
At noon on Monday, December 9, New York City law enforcement and Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference announcing that they had arrested a man in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. , in Manhattan on Wednesday, December 4. At the moment, he has been arrested
How many patients are switching to biosimilars? – Healthcare Economist
This is a key question if biologic drug prices are going to fall in the long term. We can decompose this question into 3 subquestions: What proportion of patients who initiate therapy start with a biosimilar? What proportion of patients already using a biological product
Mount Sinai Center to Combine AI, Data Science, Genomics
The Mount Sinai Health System has opened a center that will combine artificial intelligence with data science and genomics in a location in the center of the Mount Sinai Hospital campus in Manhattan. The health system said the Hamilton and Amabel James Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health is
On November 18, the United States House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill with an extensive list of changes to the way the Department of Veterans (VA) provides health care and benefits. Senator Elizabeth Dole 21street Century Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act It brings together several bills that
OIG: Office for Civil Rights Should Enhance Its HIPAA Audit Program
Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently got a taste of their own medicine, as a audit conducted by the HHS Office of Inspector General found that OCR’s HIPAA audit implementation was too limited in scope to effectively evaluate electronic protected
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
