RFK Jr. Overhauls USPSTF Leadership: 5 Things to Know
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this week, completing the 16-seat panel amid ongoing tension over its leadership.
From Management to Personalized Prevention: The Phase Shift in Chronic Disease
To meet the modern patient where they are, we must pivot away from managing chronic diseases to preventing them entirely, replacing a legacy system of triage with a new model that emphasizes proactive, personalized prevention.
Where Will AI Deployment Benefit Payers the Most?
We are taking a look at how health insurers are using AI, defining success, and managing cybersecurity risks. Give us your opinions by completing our brief, anonymous survey.
What the New CMS Strategy Signals for Rehab Professionals
The CMS vision is ambitious, but so is the potential for rehab therapy to shape its execution. To do that, providers must actively engage, document their impact, and advocate for their inclusion in evolving models of care.
Diabetes Eradication? The New Chronic Condition Care Playbook and How GLP-1s Are Changing the Game
GLP-1 medications are transforming how we think about chronic disease management and, more importantly, prevention. Ongoing research has found them to be effective in the prevention or treatment of diabetes, heart attacks and strokes, kidney disease, liver disease, sleep apnea, and more.
INVEST Pitch Perfect winner: myBiometry aims to prevent asthma attacks long before they happen
The startup's asthma solution, called Mya, combines home-based diagnostics, digital health and a care team to identify patients at risk and proactively intervene to prevent asthma attacks.
How vocal biomarkers are becoming a necessary tool for remote patient monitoring
With the information contained in a simple 30-second voice sample, providers can help patients get ahead of future health issues and prescribe or adjust treatment plans as needed.
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
Podimetrics snags $45M to grow its diabetic foot health business, prevent amputations
The company is using the funding to grow its product development and research teams, and expand the clinical services offered by its nurse support team. The Series C round was led by D1 Capital Partners and two new investors: the Medtech Convergence Fund and an undisclosed strategic investor.
Philips launches line of clinically validated consumer health devices
The launch is the first in a planned series of personal health programs aimed at empowering older, at-risk patients to get healthy and prevent chronic diseases.
Philips sets up global health innovation center at Texas A&M
The overall collaboration is part of a state-funded pilot project at Texas A&M called Healthy South Texas, which focuses on preventing diabetes, asthma and infectious diseases in 27 counties in South Texas.
$56M from Obamacare’s prevention fund seeds new public health programs in Illinois
Randy Gutzke, a longtime IV drug user who says he struggles daily to stay sober, recently was offered a quick-results test for hepatitis C at a West Side community health center in Chicago. A case manager also reviewed the behaviors that put him at risk for contracting a hepatitis C infection, such as getting tattoos […]
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
Remote health monitoring system gets FDA 510(k) clearance
Ambio Health, a Stamford, Conn.-based company that specializes in health monitoring, received a Class II FDA 510(k) clearance for its Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System. With the intent of saving patients money, the device, which includes a wireless blood glucose monitor and wireless gateway (a blood pressure meter and weight scale, also FDA-approved, can be […]
Three medical device trends that are saving lives
By Michael Dunkley and James Wilson If there’s one thing we can always count on in the medical device world, it’s the steady beat of progress. We look for the big idea that will save lives, make doctors’ jobs easier and the medical field more efficient — thus saving costs. As designers, we keep our […]
Mainstream medicine moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to prostate cancer screening
For nearly a quarter century, doctors have ordered annual PSA tests for men of a certain age to screen for prostate cancer, despite a lack of evidence that the benefits outweighed the risks -- especially when tiny, slow-growing tumors were detecte...
A contrarian’s take on “wellness programs”: Excess testing, diagnoses & costs
Corporate wellness programs get a lot of buzz for their potential to create healthier, more productive and less costly employees. But in a post over at The Health Care Blog, Al Lewis is taking jabs at some of those programs. Lewis, the president of Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International who and author of a book […]
Colorado biotech’s latest milestones exemplify big-picture progress toward a dengue vaccine
The tropical disease dengue fever isn’t something we hear or worry about much in the U.S. So when virologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published study findings that a rare 2010 dengue outbreak in Florida came not from abroad but from a unique, local strain of the virus that’s evolved its […]