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Maximizing Personalized Approaches with Precision Vaccinology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Traditional vaccines have played a crucial role in combating infectious diseases but often follow a one-size-fits-all approach. With the advent of cutting-edge technologies and a deeper understanding of immunology, researchers are now...

A Deep Dive into CA’s mHealth Effort to Support Youth Mental Health

mHealthIntelligence As healthcare stakeholders attempt to stem the youth mental health crisis in America, many have turned to digital health technology. The latest to do so is the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which has launched a...

Overcoming Tech Barriers to Achieve Prior Authorization Transparency

HealthPayerIntelligence Prior authorization has posed problems for nearly all healthcare stakeholders. The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule aims to streamline the utilization management process and improve data-sharing between payers,...

What Is the Role of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership?

PharmaNewsIntelligence Last week, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) held its inaugural Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Program Symposium, discussing the progress of multiple AMP projects. Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, President and...

The Status of Male Birth Control, Its Impact on Reproductive Health

HealthCareExecIntelligence Globally, nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended. While some unintended pregnancies result in a successful and safe birth for both the infant and the mother, many unintended pregnancies result in complicated and potentially fatal...

Is Male Birth Control the Answer to the Unplanned Pregnancy Epidemic?

LifeSciencesIntelligence In an interview with Healthcare Strategies, Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the University of Washington Medicine Diabetes Institute in Seattle, WA, Robert B. McMillen Professor of Medicine in Lipid Research and head of the Division...

What the NJ Lawsuit Adds to Out-of-State Telehealth, Licensure Debates

mHealthIntelligence With the rapid expansion of virtual care in recent years came regulatory flexibilities to enable healthcare delivery across state lines. But many of these flexibilities have expired, resulting in a tussle between providers and patients...

Behind Epic’s Award-Winning MyChart Patient Portal Advancements

PatientEngagementHIT Epic Systems thinks it’s on the brink of a new frontier in patient portal use, saying MyChart is stock-full of the functionalities consumers want, and users are now leveraging it to move the needle on clinical outcomes and the patient...

How GoodRx Brings Low Drug Costs in Vexing Healthcare Landscape

PatientEngagementHIT The cost of healthcare is getting to be a nearly insurmountable problem for patients, leaving the healthcare consumer with a pretty hefty homework assignment if they want to get the best buy for their services and medications. At GoodRx,...

Advancing Sterility Assurance Through Environmental Monitoring

PharmaNewsIntelligence In the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs is of utmost importance. Quality assurance is critical in maintaining high standards for pharmaceutical products, and one essential aspect of quality assurance is...

Revolutionizing Diabetes Care with Advanced CGM Devices

LifeSciencesIntelligence Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices have transformed diabetes management by enabling continuous and accurate real-time tracking of blood glucose levels. These minimally invasive wearables eliminate the need for frequent fingerstick...

What Is Behind Rampant Medicare Advantage Contract Terminations?

HealthPayerIntelligence With a history of overpayments, care denials, and limited provider networks, the relationship between Medicare Advantage and the rest of the healthcare industry has always been tumultuous. Over the past year, the private payer program has...

Comparing Female Fertility Drugs: Use Cases, Effectiveness, Risks

PharmaNewsIntelligence Infertility, or the inability to conceive, is characterized by one year of unprotected sex without a subsequent pregnancy. Although infertility can result from male or female partners, most available fertility drugs work on addressing...

How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Change At-Home Cancer Care

HealthCareExecIntelligence Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is changing the chronic disease management landscape by allowing clinicians to track patient outcomes and assess their needs on a continuous or near-continuous basis. In cancer care, remote monitoring can...

Exploring Challenges, Successes in Solid Tumor Cell and Gene Therapy

LifeSciencesIntelligence Cell and gene therapy advancements have significantly impacted the oncology landscape, offering an additional treatment option to patients with systemic cancers. For example, on a recent episode of Healthcare Strategies, Alivia Kaylor, MSc,...

Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

mHealthIntelligence The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...

How HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals Will Impact Healthcare

HealthITSecurity HHS recently unveiled healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) with the intent of helping the sector prioritize the implementation of key security best practices. On their surface, the voluntary CPGs are straightforward,...

Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?

mHealthIntelligence Virtual care remains a vital area of interest and investment for healthcare stakeholders. Supported by technologies like telehealth platforms, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and virtual sitting solutions, virtual care strategies...

Exploring Healthcare Price Transparency for the Consumer Experience

PatientEngagementHIT Shop in any store or for any service, and you will be able to look at the price tag or at least request a quote, but in healthcare, that level of price transparency is unheard of. Rather, patients go into most healthcare encounters not...