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According to the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, close to 12 million Americans receive some kind of home healthcare each year, and that number is expected to continue to grow.

Emerging technologies hold the potential to protect doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders while driving up efficiencies for manual tasks and processes and enhancing productivity.

Moderna is partnering with Life Edit, a subsidiary of ElevateBio that offers a suite of gene-editing technologies. The deal brings together the capabilities of both companies, which aim to develop in vivo gene-editing therapies.Mod

There is an urgent need to develop solutions that can enable the early diagnosis of COPD as any delays in the diagnosis of COPD represent a missed opportunity to slow disease progression through preventative interventions. Smoking cessation alone could save as many as 120,000 lives per year in the US alone.

The largest six pharmacy benefit managers are being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission, while Congress is debating the Pharmacy Benefit Transparency Act. Meanwhile, states have their own ideas for reining in what they see as excesses of the industry. With all this heat, what is the message from the head of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association?

By adding 450 primary care practices to its network, the company claims to be the largest network of independent primary care. In total, the company now works with more than 1,500 independent primary care practices and health centers and has more than 150 value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial plans.

By hearing critiques or praises directly from the source of your practice’s revenue, you can determine what is working and what needs improvement.

The current legal landscape makes access to medication abortion crucial in protecting as much access to reproductive healthcare as possible and in protecting healthcare providers’ abilities to do their jobs without fear of prosecution. 

A new CVS Health survey found that 76% of adults agree that telehealth is more convenient than other healthcare options. Additionally, 75% agree that it is more flexible, 75% believe that it is easier to schedule appointments and 77% said that it is quicker to provide care. The percentages varied slightly by generation, although a vast majority of each age group still said they agreed with these characteristics for telehealth.

Within ten years of execution and widespread adoption, most pipelines will be traced to the opportunity of untapped microbes of the earth.