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Medicare for All push resurrected by U.S. House of Representatives
When Joe Biden became the Democratic Presidential nominee last year, it was assumed that talk of Medicare for All was effectively dead. The concept, popularized by Vermont Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, would have created a g…
Amazon Care’s nationwide telehealth expansion ‘may be bigger than the sum of the parts,’ says firm
Amazon signaled its intention this week to expand its Amazon Care app-based telehealth services to its employees and to other companies across the U.S. — services that, to date, have only been available to the retail giant’s Washington-based workforce…
Executives rate provider burnout as a disrupting force in healthcare
The most potentially disruptive forces facing hospitals and health systems in the next three years are provider burnout, disengagement and resulting shortages among healthcare professionals, according to a new survey of 551 healthcare executives.
Humana introduces CenterWell brand for payer-agnostic healthcare offerings
Health insurer Humana announced a new brand this week, CenterWell, which encompasses and connects a range of the company’s payer-agnostic healthcare services offerings. The first Humana-owned care services to adopt the new brand will be its senior-focu…
Mischievous activity during the pandemic will lead to more healthcare fraud recoveries in 2021
Though there appears to be a dim light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, much remains uncertain — everything from the timing of school reopenings to the nature and business of the healthcare industry. Part of that uncertainty revolves around fraud li…
Long-term stroke death rates are higher among Black Medicare patients
A long-term look at Medicare patients shows that Black patients who have an ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain) die at a higher rate than white patients, even after accounting for preexisting health conditions, according to preliminary re…
Optimized EHR flowsheets found to reduce clinician burden, burnout
Documentation burden is a common problem with modern electronic health record systems. EHRs have been linked to many benefits, from improving care quality and reducing prescription errors to facilitating biomedical research. But documentation burden is…
Pediatric emergency visits, hospitalizations down sharply during pandemic
The trend is likely linked to public health measures instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as masking and social distancing.
Michigan Medicine to resume construction on $920 million hospital
Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor was forced to delay construction of a new hospital last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but with cases down and vaccines being distributed, the academic health system is resuming plans to build the $920 million facility.
Big shift seen in high-risk older adults’ attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination
Last fall, nearly half of older adults were on the fence about COVID-19 vaccination — or at least taking a wait-and-see attitude, according to a University of Michigan poll taken at the time.
But a new follow-up poll shows that 71% of people in their …
