With just four months to go until the scheduled expiration of Drug Enforcement Administration flexibilities on virtual prescribing of controlled substances, a long list of hundreds of healthcare stakeholders is…
LOS ANGELES — For nearly a decade, John Baackes has led L.A. Care Health Plan, a publicly run insurer primarily serving low-income Los Angeles County residents on Medi-Cal. It is…
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To assist healthcare professionals with clinical documentation during consultations, a new tool is being piloted by SingHealth, Singapore’s largest health cluster. Note Buddy, described as an ambient digital scribe, is…
HIGH BLOOD SUGAR can make it hard to get hard: Men with diabetes are significantly more likely to have erectile dysfunction than those with normal blood sugar readings, research in…
Chief information officers and other IT leaders at hospitals and health systems are being bombarded with a wide array of AI technologies and are trying to navigate a burgeoning marketplace with…
The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, close to the record low the Biden administration achieved in 2022 through expansions of…
It’s been nearly four years since Donald Trump was president, and just over that long since we entered the time-space blur of the COVID-19 pandemic—which is to say, your memory…
Since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee in the wake of President Joe Biden stepping down this summer, vice president Kamala Harris has had to craft her own campaign in an…
Nearly two decades ago, Vice President Kamala Harris learned during what she thought was an ordinary lunch date that her mother—renowned breast cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan—had been diagnosed with colon…
Dr. James Barr, vice president of physician value-based programs at Atlantic Health System and chief medical officer at Optimus Healthcare Partners, an accountable care organization within that health system, is…
Sept. 26 This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Pediatricians won’t get refunds on all their unused covid vaccines, leaving some parents of children under 3 struggling to find…
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The Department of Health and Aged Care is launching a telehealth service for aged care residents as part of reform actions in the aged care sector. It recently issued a…
“There is no health without brain health.” This statement from Tomas Ryan, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry at Trinity College in Dublin and member of the Programme Committee of the…
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According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics, the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. As virtual care…
When CrowdStrike tried to parse a bad Falcon Suite configuration file pushed to millions of Windows machines this past July, the widespread crash took out the whole operating system and…
CLARKSBURG, Calif. — On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stood outside the small…
The overlapping imperatives of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are becoming ever more important as the two become more intertwined across healthcare in some interesting and challenging ways. AI, for instance,…