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Penn Medicine recently published a study on the economics of providing telemedicine — it showed that when the health system began offering virtual urgent care services to its employees, the visits ended up being 23% less expensive to conduct than in-person appointments.

Medical schools and residency training programs push trainees away from primary care and make primary care seem less prestigious. Medicare is the largest payer of graduate medical education, so Medicare could require additional outpatient primary care training in residency to encourage Family and Internal Medicine trainees to enter outpatient primary care, where the need is critical.

Asynchronous care represents a transformative approach in healthcare, enabling equitable access to quality care while overcoming geographical and technological barriers.

Although leveraging and adapting telehealth techniques for oral health has only quietly and slowly made its way into dental practices, telehealth can shape total patient wellness by improving the efficiency and convenience of accessing and receiving care.

Healthcare dealmakers must prepare for a new law and a recently-introduced bill in the California Senate, both of which aim to increase oversight in the healthcare M&A space. This is a legislative trend other states are beginning to participate in too — such as New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

During the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a cell therapy posted clinical data during that could broaden its use in multiple myeloma. In other developments, the class of drugs called ADCs continue to make progress and a novel brain cancer drug has Phase 3 data that support its use as a new treatment option.

An FDA advisory committee voted in favor of supporting a respiratory syncytial virus therapy designed to protect newborns and infants. The antibody drug developed by partners Sanofi and AstraZeneca is currently under regulatory review.

Making EHRs work with and not against clinicians is possible. When EHRs take a human-centered design approach, collaborating closely with clinicians to optimize workflows, the EHR can stop being the focus of clinicians’ days, and instead support them as they provide care to patients

Biological clocks could play an important role in helping to promote healthy ageing and to stem the growing incidence of age-related diseases by improving the quality of life of the aged, reducing mortality and relieving the burden on overwhelmed health and social care resources.

Laudio — a startup providing software that automates administrative tasks for frontline nurse managers — recently raised $13 million in Series B funds. The company's platform helps managers complete tasks like patient rounding and schedule making more quickly, as well as provides recommendations on how to better engage staff members.