Information systems for health (IS4H) are a strategic component of the digital transformation of the health sector. Data are available, but awareness of information use is limited. Data management policies and standards are defined, along with plans and roadmaps. Processes are…
Increased use of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone may not be a major reason opioid overdose deaths have fallen sharply across the US since 2023, according to a study that challenges a leading explanation for the decline. “There are big questions about…
Corrected at 4:30 p.m. PROVIDENCE – While many aspects of Rhode Island’s primary, specialty and behavioral healthcare systems are ahead of others in the country, challenges in healthcare affordability, provider availability and looming federal policy changes make accessing healthcare in the Ocean State…
The proposed changes would implement key healthcare provisions in a government funding package from February. The Consolidation Appropriations Act of 2026, signed into law by President Donald Trump in February, ended a short government shutdown by approving funding through September. It…
Robert Kneschke - stock.adobe.co Although children enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans increased over the past seventeen years, children’s preventative care rates still fall short of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) goal, according to a study…
People shopping for GLP-1 weight-loss medicines online have a new option. Counsel Health announced a weight management program on Oct. 27 that patients can reach directly or through LillyDirect, Eli Lilly's direct-to-consumer digital pharmacy platform, HIT Consultant reported. The program is…
Oct 28, 2026, 18:11 ET Patients Choice in Specialty Pharmacy Act would end plan steering toward insurer- and PBM-owned specialty pharmacies while letting patients keep the pharmacy they have Many insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) now own or control the specialty pharmacies…
The fiscal year 2022 budget resolution proposes to expand Medicare coverage to include dental, vision, and hearing services. To better understand the context… Urban is a leader in providing evidence and solutions on the issues that affect the well-being of people…
Geneva, Switzerland, 24 March, 2023.- The private sector has a major influence on health through its products and practices. Commercial actors influence health in varied and complex ways. They have... - Experts call for action on the commercial determinants of health and health…
New research details how a large healthcare organization was able to increase subspecialty reads by pediatric radiologists across its system using a centralized imaging platform. Published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, experts recently detailed how such a centralized system…
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