Patient Engagement
To help more people with prediabetes access the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Diabetes Prevention Program, the American Medical Association has adopted a policy during its annual meeting to encourage private and public health plans to include the DPP as a covered benefit for their beneficiaries.
The portion of released prisoners with addiction problems who lacked medical insurance fell sharply after the health law's Medicaid expansion took effect, but drug-treatment rates for ex-offenders barely budged, a new study shows.
If you're one of the nearly 44 million Americans estimated to have a mental health condition, the 2010 health law is supposed to help you get treatment. Yet actually getting that help depends, new research suggests, on who you are and, to an extent, on your racial background. While more people overall are getting mental health care, it's still harder to do if you are not white.
58 practices in 39 states and the District of Columbia have joined CancerLinQ, the American Society of Clinical Oncology's big data initiative, which seeks to improve the quality of care for people with cancer.
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network will employ IBM Watson's cognitive computing skills to help match cancer patients with clinical trials.
As value-based reimbursement leads healthcare providers to dig deep for new technologies and create team structures to handle the switch, smaller providers are struggling to cover the costs.
With research increasingly highlighting the link between sleep and good health, children's hospitals are rethinking just how they work at night.
The experiment begins Wednesday at the VA's operations in Palo Alto, California. Veterans can visit 14 "MinuteClinics" operated by CVS in the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento, where staff will treat them for conditions such as respiratory infections, order lab tests and prescribe medications, which can be filled at CVS pharmacies. Whether the partnership will spread to other VA locales isn't yet clear.
Five years after a devastating tornado ripped apart Joplin, MO, including its major hospital, a sapling from the 9/11 Survivor Tree was planted Sunday near the healing garden of Mercy Hospital Joplin's cancer center.
With the shortage of primary care providers already severe in some areas of the country, a recent study published in Health Affairs has found that 58 percent of retail clinic cases were new visits, which drove about a $14-per-person annual net increase in spending.