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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...

What Providers Can Expect for Information Blocking Enforcement

EHRIntelligence While the 21st Century Cures Act prohibited information blocking in 2016, healthcare interoperability has remained a persistent challenge across the country. The Cures Act defines information blocking as any practice likely to interfere...

Revolutionizing Fertility Treatment with a MicroICSI Device

LifeSciencesIntelligence Although traditional in vitro fertilization (IVF) remains a widely utilized assisted reproductive technology (ART) globally, there has been a significant decline in the use of conventional IVF procedures in recent years, with a notable...

Digitizing the Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain Improves Resilience

PharmaNewsIntelligence Throughout the past few years, global, national, and industry-specific changes have posed challenges to the biopharmaceutical supply chain. Disruptions and shortages have caused industry leaders and regulatory organizations to look for...

Exploring Gene and Cell Therapy Integration in Pharmacies

PharmaNewsIntelligence After seeing promising results in cell and gene therapy clinical trials, cell and gene therapy is transforming patient care, offering new possibilities for treating diseases that previously had limited treatment options. As pharmacies...

Overlapping Genomic and Clinical Data Through Real-World Data Insights

LifeSciencesIntelligence Earlier this month, Flatiron Health and Caris Life Sciences entered a partnership that combines clinical data from Flatiron’s electronic health record (EHR) information across the oncology landscape — predominantly community...

A Look Inside the Four Most Common Value-Based Care Arrangements

HealthPayerIntelligence A simple explanation of value-based care is rewarding quality over quantity. However, value-based care arrangements differ in how they determine payments and the level of risk that is assumed. As healthcare organizations warm up to the idea...

Supporting the Provider Experience to Build a Good Patient Experience

PatientEngagementHIT Does a better patient experience start with a better staff and provider experience? If you ask Deirdre Mylod, PhD, the senior vice president of Research and Analytics at Press Ganey, it has to. Indeed, there is a key behavioral and workflow...

Developing Simulation-Based Telehealth Training for Next-Gen Nurses

mHealthIntelligence Telehealth has cemented itself as a vital tool in the effort to expand healthcare access and improve care outcomes. To keep up with the rise in adoption and use, healthcare organizations need trained clinicians who are comfortable with...

Harnessing the Power of Microbiome-Based Therapies

LifeSciencesIntelligence In recent years, the microbiome — a vast community of microorganisms inhabiting the human body — has emerged as a compelling area of research with immense therapeutic potential. The complex interplay between the microbiome and...

Exploring and Managing GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Weight Loss

PharmaNewsIntelligence Over the past few years, weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have received extensive attention in mainstream media for their weight loss effects. Beyond attention from the general public, this class of medications, the glucagon-like...

Using Analytics Tools to Drive Care Coordination for Wildfire Victims

HealthITAnalytics Climate change is a public health crisis, threatening human health by increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and more. These events have significant...

Leveraging an mHealth App to Improve Maternal Outcomes in Michigan

mHealthIntelligence The United States is facing a maternal health crisis, with mortality rates that are three times the rate in most other high-income countries. Mitigating this crisis is a priority for healthcare stakeholders, including public health...

Understanding the Risks Associated with BiPAP, CPAP Recalls

LifeSciencesIntelligence According to the CDC, there are four primary types of sleep disorders, including insomnia, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and sleep apnea. Cedars–Sinai notes that over 20 million Americans struggle with sleep apnea,...

Cultural Competence in Healthcare: Why It’s Important & How to Build It

PatientEngagementHIT Healthcare is undergoing a seismic shift, with the role of public and population health playing a bigger role in patient care than ever before. Core to that role is the increased focus on health disparities, health equity, and cultural...