STAT

AUGUST 21, 2023

Consider the case of “hospital at home,” a fast-moving, innovative model that delivers acute hospital care to patients in their own homes. Hospital at home has made headlines recently, but it could have achieved scale far sooner if incentives to invest in the model had been properly aligned.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 15, 2024

Five home-testing devices to diagnose sleep apnoea, which can affect the health of around 2.5 million adults in the UK, have been recommended for NHS use by NICE.

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APRIL 14, 2023

On most days around 2pm, home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in his 30s with a developmental disability who is quick to give Crichlow hugs and kisses.

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MAY 4, 2023

billion, creating a national company that specializes in almost all types of home care that can be provided from cradle to grave. Option Care Health is buying Amedisys in an all-stock merger valued at $3.6 billion acquisition of LHC Group.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

She’d need someone to drive her to and from the appointment, nearly an hour round-trip from her home in Orange County, Calif. When the 53-year-old researched nearby clinics, though, she found them out of reach.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Home health care services have helped keep Wilcox’s family healthy and safe — and reduce her stress — but they aren’t equally accessible to everybody.

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APRIL 24, 2024

A new FDA initiative is seeing how augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) can make patients’ own homes an integral part of the healthcare system

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JUNE 26, 2023

Home health and hospice chain Amedisys has chosen a new corporate owner. Option Care Health, a company that delivers intravenous medicines and mails health care supplies to people’s homes, originally offered to acquire Amedisys in May in an all-stock deal. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Home improvement retailer Home Depot and two other, smaller employers are appealing a recent $2.67 billion settlement that covers allegedly anticompetitive behavior from Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers. The appeals could potentially delay the release of the funds and the broader terms of the settlement, which U.S. District Judge R.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home test that can detect flu and Covid-19 — but for the test’s maker, Lucira, the long-anticipated authorization may have taken too long. The company filed for bankruptcy on Feb. The company filed for bankruptcy on Feb.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home Covid-19 and flu combination test. The new details are raising hopes among other home-test manufacturers that the FDA is becoming more flexible about its requirements for approving at-home flu test kits. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Primary care network (PCN) pharmacist Laura Buckley speaks to Joanna Robertson about how conducting medicines reviews in care homes helped her to connect with an often-overlooked group of patients and deprescribe an impressive number of medications. I thought reviewing care homes would be a good way to get to know my patch.

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MARCH 7, 2023

But a new partnership between the electronics retailer and Atrium Health, part of the nonprofit health system Advocate Health, is a sign of how big tech and retail companies are getting in on the booming hospital-at-home market. Atrium Health, meanwhile, launched its home hospital program in 2020 and has since served over 6,300 patients.

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PharmaVoice

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Sonara Health’s inexpensive, specially engineered label and web app allow for at-home, digitally supervised dosing of high-cost or high-risks drugs.

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The Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

More than 80,000 patients across mid and south Essex are now monitoring their blood pressure at home as part of an NHS scheme, according to a study by Essex University.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

One unexpected “benefit” of these plans is an offer by the insurance company sponsoring the plan to send a nurse or physician’s assistant, often from a startup company, to an individual’s home. There is no charge for the visit, and the insurance company may even pay the beneficiary for agreeing to do this.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

In an effort to reduce contact among people at clinics, federal health officials said that providers could give up to 14 days of take-home doses to patients broadly, and up to 28 days to “stable” patients — patients, Russell thought, like her. When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, that changed. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

A Medicare program that allowed approved health systems to bill for hospital care delivered in people’s homes during the pandemic is on the cusp of a two-year extension, giving a boost to home care models many see as the future.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

APRIL 4, 2023

In this position, she works with patients in the comfort of their homes after being discharged from a hospital setting. The MIH-CP is a patient-centered program that provides a broad range of health services to high-risk patients in the comfort of their homes after they’ve been discharged from the hospital.

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PharmExec

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While hurdles remain, home healthcare could deliver better patient-centered cancer care—providing improved outcomes, enhanced quality of life, and reduced strain on resources.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new way to administer vaccines at home could help AstraZeneca reach a wider market for FluMist, the nasal influenza vaccine.

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STAT

JANUARY 2, 2024

The  blue muffin challenge. Food sensitivity tests. Microbiome  Microbiome test kits. Self-help gastrointestinal health is all the rage. Rightly so: One in four Americans is affected by digestive disorders. And we’re all eating worse, sleeping less, and experiencing more stress , leaving our guts feeling twisted.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted cesarean section.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

From “ Legacy ” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2024 by Uché Blackstock, M.D. In the U.S.,

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JUNE 22, 2023

In fact, in FDA’s entire history of OTC IVD regulation, according to FDA’s OTC IVD database, there has only been four de novo authorizations for OTC IVDs, of which three were granted to 23andMe for home collection of samples tested at a central laboratory, not home testing itself. pregnancy, glucose, drugs of abuse).

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The NHS has announced the expansion of its home-testing kits for bowel cancer in an effort to detect signs of the disease and diagnose it earlier. FIT kits can be done at home by putting a sample in a small tube and returning it by post to the NHS for testing.

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Pharma Mirror

JANUARY 2, 2024

The popularity of at-home DNA testing is soaring in popularity and uses. When someone seeks information about paternity or genetic diseases without visiting a doctor’s chamber or laboratory, the best alternative is the at-home DNA test kit. The question which concerns everyone is, ‘are home DNA test kits accurate?’.

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The Pharmacist

JUNE 29, 2023

Thriva will be offering its health tests through the high-street pharmacy chain for heart disease and diabetes risk, liver function, fertility, white blood cell count, vitamin D levels, iron […] The post Superdrug deal for Thriva at-home and in-store testing appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

MAY 16, 2023

You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences.    Sign up to get this newsletter  delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.    General Catalyst, A16z back Hippocratic AI for $50 million Read the rest…

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JULY 12, 2023

2San, a supplier of self-diagnostic tests, has partnered with Proov to distribute their proprietary at-home fertility tests in select Hy-Vee stores across eight states in the Midwest.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Eleni Tsigas likens her first experience with preeclampsia to a plane crash. She was in the midst of what she thought was a healthy first pregnancy, with low risk for complications.

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Express Pharma

JULY 24, 2023

Lupin Digital Health and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced a collaboration to deliver in-home cardiovascular care with digital therapeutics (DTx) in India. Lupin Digital Health’s DTx platform, Lyfe, also aims to give patients and their healthcare providers tools to manage heart diseases at home and reduce rehospitalisation.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Fresenius has launched a virtual reality based training programme for people undergoing home dialysis in Germany, its home market, ahead of a rollout in other countries later this year. VR training…lowers their inhibitions and helps them with the decision on whether peritoneal dialysis at home is right for them,” she added.

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Compounding Pharmacy of America

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Many are unaware how to treat gout at home with behaviors, vitamins, and supplements. The post How to Treat Gout at Home appeared first on The Compounding Pharmacy of America. Most people are on their feet for a large portion of the day.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 3, 2024

The study highlights the ongoing need for health care providers to recommend respiratory illness vaccinations to increase protection among nursing home residents during the peak season of infection.

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NY Times

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

At least 21 percent of nursing home residents are on antipsychotic drugs, a Times investigation found.

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