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Ensuring Equal Clinical Trial Access Across Vulnerable Communities

PharmaNewsIntelligence Clinical trials play a critical role in ensuring the widespread safety of medical products for patients by analyzing product efficacy, safety, and indications. Since clinical trial data is used to guide drug approvals and standards of care...

Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease Coverage, VBC Opportunities

HealthPayerIntelligence Efforts to improve chronic kidney disease coverage have evolved over the last several decades, but the disease remains costly and prevalent. Around 15 percent of the adult population in the US has chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to...

Exploring Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reforms: Transparency

PharmaNewsIntelligence Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have received criticism over the past couple of years for pocketing savings intended for patients. While this rhetoric is true for some PBMs, a small subset of the market advocates for PBM transparency and...

Embracing AI in Life Sciences: Opportunities for Healthcare Technology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the life sciences industry, offering unprecedented opportunities for advancements in healthcare technology. Life sciences companies must embrace AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to...

Understanding the Nuances of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Regulatory Landscape

HealthITSecurity Considering the complexity and magnitude of cyber threats facing the healthcare sector today, it stands to reason that the regulations that aim to protect patients and organizations from these threats must be equally intricate. These...

Best Legal Practices Before, During, After A Cybersecurity Incident

HealthCareExecIntelligence The healthcare sector is up against sophisticated cyber threats, from phishing to ransomware. From 2018 to 2022, there was a 239 percent increase in large breaches involving hacking reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR),...

How to Effectively Integrate AI into Clinical Trials

PharmaNewsIntelligence Since its inception, artificial intelligence (AI) has continually disrupted practices across all industries. As more and more healthcare researchers and clinicians adopt AI, experts have noted the impact of AI on clinical research and trial...

How Can Payers Support Providers Through Workforce Challenges?

HealthPayerIntelligence Although they likely existed before, the COVID-19 pandemic both highlighted and exacerbated workforce challenges among healthcare providers. Providers have implored federal leaders and agencies to increase support and resources as they...

As Maternal & Infant Health Falter, Advocacy Is Key to Progress

PatientEngagementHIT As it continues to pave the road to progress with data, March of Dimes is using its advocacy prowess to also call for policy and medical device solutions to the nation’s growing maternal and infant health crisis. Paired with a new...

Exploring the Role of Cleveland Clinic’s First Chief Analytics Officer

HealthITAnalytics As data analytics becomes more valuable and accessible, health systems are creating leadership roles to reflect this shift. Chief data officer and chief analytics officer roles are becoming more common, but what does such a role entail? One...

‘Getting Heads in Headsets’: Exploring Virtual Reality Use in the VA

mHealthIntelligence Virtual reality (VR), though initially relegated to the world of gaming, is increasingly being applied in healthcare. Healthcare research and provider organizations nationwide are actively exploring the use of VR technologies in various...

Advancements in Pancreatic Cancer Screenings

LifeSciencesIntelligence According to the National Cancer Institute, a subset of the National Institutes of Health, in 2023, an estimated 64,050 people in the United States received a new diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, comprising roughly 3.3% of all new cancer...

How Regenstrief Is Linking Dental & EHR Data to Drive Clinical Research

EHRIntelligence Dental records and EHR data remain siloed across the care continuum, presenting challenges for clinical research and patient-centered care. This is despite evidence that oral health and overall health go hand-in-hand, experts have said. For...

How Lawmakers Use Shield Laws to Protect Abortion Care Access

HealthCareExecIntelligence Shield laws have become a key tool for states in which abortion is legal to further protect abortion care access for people living out of state. The laws are set up to help individuals living in abortion-restriction states get the procedure...

What to Know About the 2023 Eyedrop Recalls, Understanding the Risks

PharmaNewsIntelligence On February 2, 2023, the first of three eyedrops in the United States were recalled voluntarily after multiple reports of illness associated with the drops were reported to the CDC. Since then, two additional eye drops in the US...

Improving Diabetes Care for Native Americans with Healthcare Technology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Diabetes is a global health challenge, affecting millions worldwide. Among the various populations affected, Native Americans face exceptionally high rates of diabetes and related complications.  In an interview with...

How Best Buy Will Help Mass General Brigham Scale At-Home Healthcare

mHealthIntelligence With the hospital-at-home model gaining steam nationwide, health systems are seeking technology partnerships that can help them sustain and scale their program. The latest in a string of provider-vendor partnerships focused on...

Using Shield Laws to Protect Interstate Patient Access to Abortion Care

PatientEngagementHIT In the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, it wouldn’t be uncommon to see interstate patient access to abortion care. The ruling, which virtually upended the precedent set...

How Virtual Reality Altered the Landscape of Pain Management Therapies

HealthCareExecIntelligence Virtual reality (VR) adoption in healthcare is growing quickly. Together with augmented reality tools, the market is expected to be worth nearly $10 million by 2027, around 3.5 times its value in 2022. But the ideal use cases for VR in the...