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Transcarent, the fast-moving company helmed by health tech investor and former Livongo CEO Glen Tullman, today announced $126 million in Series D funding valuing the company at $2.2 Tullman has said Transcarent is distinct from other health care navigation and virtual care companies that also promise to make care cheaper and more accessible.

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MAY 14, 2024

We envision a future of regular brain-health “check-ups” via portable MRI devices, public health neurologic screening, population neuroscience research involving millions of participants, and even direct-to-consumer imaging services akin to 23andMe in genetics.

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MAY 17, 2024

Extreme weather fueled by accelerating climate change puts patients, providers, and health care facilities at severe risk, jeopardizing lives. During climate crises, health care providers and facilities must be ready to quickly adapt to shifting needs. Read the rest…

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APRIL 1, 2024

surgeon general’s 2023 advisory on social media and teen mental health, public concern has skyrocketed around adolescents’ digital lives. Major news organizations and even state governments have pinned social media apps as addictive , dangerous, and the cause of the youth mental health crisis. Since the U.S.

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APRIL 18, 2024

As two former secretaries of Health and Human Services, we are all too familiar with the struggle of finding narrow openings for bipartisanship. Despite our different approaches, we believe that addressing health care costs is a truly bipartisan issue.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

But put those trackers on a health care website, and they have the potential to leak sensitive medical information — a risk that, in the last year, has driven the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on trackers in the websites of hospitals, telehealth companies, and more.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

While she called her autobiography “The First Lady of Plains,” to many she was also the first lady of mental health reform. Often she was called upon to guide, inform, or brainstorm, as she did in 2002 when Mike Hogan, chair of President George W.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s the standard notice many health care organizations are required to provide when your protected health information gets exposed — and in 2023, data leaks, hacks, and mishandling led more of them to be delivered than ever before. Read the rest…

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APRIL 8, 2024

  Beyond the impact on individual patients, the redetermination had a sizable impact on community health centers, which serve about 15% of all Medicaid patients. For the remaining 31 million people, renewal of coverage is still pending.  Read the rest…

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APRIL 18, 2024

For a company moving as quickly as possible to build artificial intelligence into everything — including health care — Microsoft spends a lot of time talking about how to regulate it. The tech giant has helped organize four separate coalitions to devise guidelines and technical standards for AI in health care.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This police violence is intertwined with a parallel public policy disaster: America’s abysmal mental health systems that force police officers to function as de facto mental health workers. Meanwhile, there is now an historic amount of money flowing through the mental health industry, and the U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Long hours and high-pressure situations have long characterized the health care profession —  but in the wake of the pandemic, many workers are facing new challenges with regards to their mental health. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018.

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MAY 17, 2024

LONDON — The key groups involved in addressing global health problems often include governments, foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Venture capital firm General Catalyst has agreed to acquire Ohio-based nonprofit health system Summa Health and reestablish it as a for-profit organization, the health system’s board of directors announced Wednesday. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 11, 2024

On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission took action against alcohol addiction telehealth company Monument, affirming its promise to crack down on digital health companies’ misuse of personal health data. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 10, 2024

That’s evidence of a systemic failure in identifying and addressing mental health concerns in young people. Compounding the problem is the average delay of 11 years between the onset of a mental health condition and its diagnosis. Read the rest…

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MARCH 26, 2024

Troubled hospital operator Steward Health Care, grappling with a financial crisis that’s engulfed its eight Massachusetts hospitals, has moved to shore up its finances by striking a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to insurance giant UnitedHealth’s Optum Care unit. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The bans may have consequences for the health of trans youth, according to a new perspective by a group of pediatric sports medicine physicians and health services researchers published in JAMA Pediatrics. ” Read the rest…

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JANUARY 29, 2024

I’ve spent my career studying how different health care systems work. Every health care model involves people doing their best to balance competing priorities in the face of limited resources. In other words, every system involves tradeoffs.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

That’s what Dorit Donoviel, executive director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, and her team are working towards. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 24, 2024

As a former medical school dean, I know the liberal arts are not only more relevant than ever; they are critical to the future of health and health care in America. The burgeoning movement to defund (perhaps even defenestrate) the liberal arts is not only capricious and hasty, but also remarkably short-sighted. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 8, 2024

You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc.,  Morgan Healthcare Conference is exhausting and wildly expensive — a rather apt metaphor for the health care system itself.   STAT’s weekly newsletter  following the flow of money in medicine.    JPM24 is ~here~ The J.P.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission approved a far-reaching noncompete ban Tuesday that could force sweeping changes across the health care industry. Crucially for the health care industry, the noncompete ban does not apply to nonprofit companies, as the FTC determined it only has jurisdiction over for-profit companies.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 4, 2024

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences.    The plan, he told me, is to use the new fund to invest in startups that fall outside the strict digital health focus of his well-known fund 7wireVentures. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

health care system can seem like a herculean task. In their recent book “ We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care ,” Finkelstein and Stanford economist Liran Einav describe how years of research have led them to the conclusion that the best way forward is for the U.S. Fixing the U.S.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The health care sector is a notorious laggard when it comes to technology. It was slow to use computers, digitize patient data, and share information electronically. While most of the world instantly interacts via Zoom and Slack, hospitals — even today — are still sending faxes. last week.

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MAY 9, 2024

” Doing so, he said, requires a currency that is very scarce in health care: time. “It’s for us physicians to take off our lab coats, take off the bow tie, and talk normal to people.”

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JANUARY 19, 2024

WASHINGTON — Theranos founder and ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes is banned from federal health programs for nine decades, the health department announced Friday.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Jobs in health care are known to be challenging for workers’ mental health. million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. Read the rest…

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APRIL 17, 2024

Dual rules handed down in recent years by the Department of Health and Human Services force hospitals and health insurers to post prices and cost estimates for certain medical procedures. Similarly, the No Surprises Act , which protects patients against surprise out-of-network bills, took effect in 2022.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

than ever, but little is known about the unique health challenges they may face. That’s why some researchers are urging health systems to build the acronym SOGIE — for patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity and expression — into their data collection. There are more openly LGBTQ+ people in the U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Imagine having to make this decision: Your health care provider recommends that you take a specific medicine for an illness or condition but then tells you it hasn’t been tested in people like you. Do you take the medication, or refuse it? That’s the position the 3.5 million women who give birth each year in the U.S.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Medicare Advantage members continue to go to the doctor and get health care procedures a lot more than predicted, CVS Health executives said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday. CVS, a major seller of Medicare Advantage plans, has not yet closed the books on its 2023 finances.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft on Thursday said it will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical documentation within health records software made by Epic, a move to embed the technology in health systems nationwide. Epic is the nation’s largest seller of software used to record and analyze patient health records.

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MARCH 11, 2024

LONDON — Regulators, clinicians, and health care algorithm developers need to take additional steps to ensure that medical devices work equally well for all patients, avoiding blind spots that can lead to worse care for patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, according to a U.K.-commissioned

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As 2023 begins, health care providers in the United States must make health records more easily available or risk losing Medicare funding under the 21st Century Cures Act.

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