In an unusual move, the Food and Drug Administration issued an alert about false negatives in startup Curative’s Covid-19 test. The test was being used by the County of Los Angeles, as well as Congress.
At the ninth annual Health Datapalooza conference in Washington D.C. this week, Scott Gottlieb also provided an update on the pre-certification program, which is scheduled to launch before the end of the year.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
The signed order has elicited a range of reactions from satisfaction from small business associations and Donald Trump's base to concern from critics who accused him of sabotaging ACA. Late Thursday the White House acknowledged it would end subsidies to insurance companies.
Large companies are increasingly including services like telemedicine in employee benefits packages, according to a new survey from the National Business Group on Health. But do such offerings actually help reduce healthcare costs from an employer perspective?
A vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act has been delayed until after politicians return from the Independence Day holiday.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people (and quite a few dogs) took to the streets of major cities around the world to highlight the immense value of science, while also protesting proposed budget cuts and a move away from evidence-based policy decisions.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suspended rules requiring a quorum for a vote, allowing Price to advance to the full Senate.
Orbita this week released Voice Experience Designer, a visual designer tool for home health providers to customize voice assistants, starting with the Alexa-powered Amazon Echo.
The agreement bars Aura Labs and founder Ryan Archdeacon from claiming that the Instant Blood Pressure app is as accurate as a traditional blood pressure cuff.
Along with Turing Pharmaceuticals, of which Martin Shkreli was formerly CEO, Valeant Pharmaceuticals will be investigated by Congress on January 26, Bloomberg reports.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The device has a more robust build, a larger prism, and has a hinge that allows it to fold and is built to withstand bumps and bruises in the workplace, according to the news source 9 to 5 Google.
"It'll be quite a few years before we have a handle on this technology and how it's going to be regulated by the FDA, if at all," a Washington lawyer said at a recent Food and Drug Law Institute conference.
ProPublica shares insights from its latest project in patient safety: a three-year effort to collect detailed stories from more than 1,000 people who suffered or watched a loved one suffer harm during medical care.
Also, groups react to healthcare elements of the federal budget deal, and get ready for the seamy underworld of digital health.
House leadership approved a two-year suspension of the medical device tax and the Cadillac tax on high-cost insurance plans.