The American Cancer Society struck a multi-year collaboration with Layer Health, a healthcare AI company that uses LLMs to improve data abstraction and generate insights. The partners will abstract data from thousands of medical charts of patients enrolled in the American Cancer Society’s research studies, with the ultimate goal of shortening research timelines.
Through American Cancer Society and Color Health's new partnership, employers and unions will have better access to cancer screenings, cancer education and clinical support.
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Targeted drugs and immunotherapies are among the advances that contribute to declines in incidence and deaths from non-small cell lung cancer, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. But the trends are on the rise for some other cancers and racial disparities persist, highlighting the need to better understand these differences.
The legislation, which has drawn criticism from researchers, patient advocates and industry, would enable patients to request experimental drugs while bypassing the FDA.
As the healthcare debate continues in Washington, a number of patient, provider and consumer advocate organizations — including AARP, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association — have banded together to encourage the Senate to consider the impact of the AHCA on patients.
Honor will license its proprietary care guidance fro the American Cancer Society so that Honor's caregivers can give specialized care to clients diagnosed with cancer.
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
A nurse navigator will sit with patients and help them onboard websites and apps that tap into their personal interests.
It seems like every other major insurer is looking to buy or is an aquisition target. Anthem made a takeover approach to Cigna, UnitedHealth approached Aetna and CMS paid $1.3 billion to hospitals to ease a Medicare claims appeals backlog.
Democratic State Senator Ed Hernandez of West Covina, who chairs the chamber’s health committee, introduced a bill to legislation on Thursday that would bump up the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 in California. Of course The American Cancer Society is on board, as well as the American Lung Association, but the tobacco industry […]
Coffee drinkers could be lowering their chances of getting melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, with each cup. Those of us who need a kick of caffeine throughout the work day will take what we can get in terms of random health benefits – even if we do spend most hours of the weekdays […]
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
Better cancer prevention and treatments along with lowering smoking rates have resulted in 22 percent less deaths from the disease from 1991 – 2011, according to a study from the American Cancer Society. “Further reductions in cancer death rates can be accelerated by applying existing cancer control knowledge across all segments of the population, with […]
The number of cancer diagnostics companies these days seems innumerable, each hawking a new way to screen some subset of the populace for a grave disease. Their argument? Early diagnosis = early intervention = avoiding early death. But a great piece from FiveThirtyEight counters the idea of broad-scale cancer screening. It cites South Korea as a […]
CIOs are still running to keep up with the latest technology, but these C-suite leaders shouldn’t spread themselves too thin by overlooking basic functionality in the pursuit of pure innovation. That advice comes from Jay Ferro, chief information officer for the American Cancer Society, detailing how the position of CIO has changed, at MedCity News’ […]
No one looks forward to screening tests for colon and rectal cancers. But under the Affordable Care Act, patients are at least supposed to save on out of-pocket costs for them. Coverage is not always clear, however, and despite the federal government's...