Telehealth has come of age during the COVID-19 pandemic, and major insurer Cigna is betting on it continuing, with its healthcare services subsidiary Evernorth poised to purchase telehealth provider MDLive.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but the d…
New guidance issued by the Biden Administration today makes it clear that private group health plans cannot use medical screening criteria to deny coverage for COVID-19 diagnostic tests for members who are asymptomatic or who have no known or suspected…
Inefficiency is an issue that continues to plague many areas of healthcare, particularly when it comes to manual administrative functions. While the industry is increasingly harnessing technology — evidenced by the use of telehealth and the push for e…
As governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers, led by Dr. Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School, pro…
The massive amount of data available in healthcare makes it a prime area for artificial intelligence and machine learning automation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has deemed Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine safe and effective in an analysis released Wednesday morning that paves the way for the drugmaker’s request for emergency use authorization.
An LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health report has found a positive association between social vulnerability and COVID-19 incidence at the census tract level, and recommends that more resources be allocated to socially vulnerable populations …
The American Hospital Association is asking the federal government for $35 billion to be included in the current $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that is expected to pass the House on Friday.
Attempts to merge these health systems date back years, but up until now, the deal never went through.
On Monday the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case challenging a Trump-era rule that makes it more difficult for immigrants to achieve legal status if they use public benefits such as Medicaid or food stamps. The case was brought by state an…
