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BioAR Trial is a new accelerator that will provide companies a guaranteed clinical trial site at one of the hospitals and health systems partnered with the program. Applications are being accepted for the first cohort of companies, which will begin in April.

The study found that if certain adults received medically-tailored meals, about 1.6 million hospitalizations would have been avoided, resulting in $38.7 billion saved in healthcare expenditures. Programs to provide these meals would have cost $24.8 billion, leading to $13.6 billion in net savings, according to the report.

A primary care provider may visit some homebound patients in their homes two or three times a year, with allied and affiliated care providers delivering other services as needed to the patient, such as wellness visits, nutritious meals, groceries, and assistance with daily activities.

Surge Therapeutics' hydrogel is engineered to deliver a cancer immunotherapy. Rather than replace surgery, CEO Michael Goldberg says the hydrogel could supplement this standard of care for solid tumors. The startup's Series A financing will support the technology's first test in humans.

Emblem Health’ s chief financial officer knows that prior authorization — where patients have to get advance clearance for a procedure from their insurance companies through their providers — can be frustrating. But in an interview at the Total Health conference organized by Reuters Events in Chicago on Thursday, she rejected the notion that the system is pernicious because it was designed to delay care and cause patient harm, as the American Medical Association has charged. Instead, ...

Psychologists, therapists, social workers and chemical dependency counselors at Kaiser who are part of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 1,561 to 36 to approve the agreement reached between the company and the union. 

A virtual care provider that combines all the necessary elements—RPM devices, the software that analyzes RPM data and, most importantly, a specialized team of clinicians, nurses and technicians who can make use of the data to intervene—can be a seamless, turn-key addition to delivering optimal patient care.

UnityPoint Health CEO Clay Holderman said his health system made a mistake when it used to leave decision making concerning new technology adoption up to the director of its venture fund instead of involving its frontline clinicians. UnityPoint’s clinicians didn’t take too well to this, so the health system re-structured its technology adoption process to prioritize the voices of its clinical staff.

Thirty five state attorneys general signed an amicus brief claiming that Oklahoma state law should trump federal law in a case involving the question of who can regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen in the prescription drug industry.  After a national trade association for PBMs known as Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) sued the state of Oklahoma claiming the state’s PBM regulations violated federal law, a district court ruled in favor of the state. PCMA app...

Health maintenance is in some ways overmedicalized in the U.S., according to executives at two major health systems. Treatments and procedures aren’t the only ways to support patients’ health — the leaders said that providers would be wise to invest more in social services to improve health outcomes.