Category: healthcare

Whence And Whither Covid-19: The Many Faces Of Omicron

Here, we focus on BA.2 + H78Y, the latest member of the Omicron family.

Paying Cash For Healthcare? New Tool Helps You Find The Price

A new price transparency tool launched this month by Solv Health arms consumers with cash prices before they book appointments—and may help them save up to 50%.

CDC’s New Mask Guidelines For COVID-19 Throw Vulnerable People Under The Bus

The CDC’s justification for rolling back masking rings hollow, and there are other metrics that would be safer than hospitalizations.

With Covid Behind Us, Can We Turn Back To Fixing Our Broken Healthcare Model?

Bringing about the best outcome will require a fundamentally different business model that redefines how work gets done, by whom, and how people are compensated. While it’s not that hard to conceptualize, it’s very different from the status quo that’s …

This Federal Law Will Completely Overhaul Company Health Benefits. Nobody Is Ready.

“I feel a little like the dog that caught the car,” said one of the law’s leading employer champions, James Gelfand of the ERISA Industry Committee.

Don’t Dam The Telehealth Flood

Telehealth is a proven way to improve patient access to care and to lower overall health costs. It’s time to make it a permanent fixture of our healthcare system.

Federal SBIR/STTR Grants Are Helping A Latina Founder Bring A Respiratory Device To Market

By tapping every network and startup resource—starting with federal SBIR/STTR grants—this Latina founder may bring an innovative wearable monitoring device to help respiratory patients. And she did it with non-dilutive funding so she didn’t lose contro…

Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Restoring The Value Of Primary Care

If saving a life is the most valuable thing a doctor can do, surely the physicians who save the most lives would garner the most esteem, right? Right?

England’s Hospitals Told To Boost Cybersecurity Amid Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Hospitals have been asked to shore up their online defenses as Russian’s attack on Ukraine escalates.

Dr. Oz Challenged Dr. Fauci To A Debate, Here’s How Others Responded

Mehmet Oz, MD, has been campaigning as a Republican candidate for one of Pennsylvania’s two U.S. Senate seats.