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Opinion: Uber for nursing is here — and it’s not good for patients or nurses

STAT

Louis, checks her phone to see if the gig nursing app CareRev still has her scheduled at the local hospital. Dana also worries about what will happen at the hospital if her shift doesn’t get canceled. Dana, a 29-year-old nurse in St. She’s already arranged child care for her son, but cancellations are common.

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STAT+: Health AI investments are off to a roaring start in 2025

STAT

Qualified Health and Collate , two early stage generative AI startups, targeting hospitals and pharma respectively, each announced $30 million in funding.

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Opinion: An evidence-based way to make Medicaid less bureaucratic and more efficient

STAT

As a primary care physician serving Medicaid patients, I recently witnessed a preventable hospitalization that perfectly illustrates America’s health care dysfunction. My homebound patient with heart failure needed a routine lab test to adjust their medication.

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Opinion: I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life

STAT

It had been five months since I’d applied to the program, after being discharged from the hospital in August 2024 as a new full-time wheelchair user. The letter informed me that I had been approved for Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), a form of long-term care.

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Clinical pharmacy services grow, but hospitals struggle to fill key roles: ASHP

Beckers Hospital Review

hospitals are increasingly integrating pharmacists into clinical care, but many are struggling to fill roles and maintain staff, according to the 2024 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists National Survey of Pharmacy Practice in Hospital Settings.

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Why is health care cybersecurity so bad?

STAT

Though health savings accounts, pharmacies, and major hospitals have all been attacked in 2024, a single data breach accounted for the vast majority of people’s data being exposed: Change Healthcare. Year after year, more Americans are affected by health care data breaches.

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Many young people want to quit vaping. A new study says medication can help

STAT

When they enrolled in a Massachusetts General Hospital trial, they told researchers they couldn’t study in the library or work at their desks for long before getting the urge to vape. The young people who wanted to quit e-cigarettes didn’t necessarily think they were addicted. But they did think nicotine cravings were a problem.

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