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Solving the labor shortage in healthcare requires that organizations come together and try new strategies leveraging their own data to better understand what their teams need.

By following a checklist of considerations to ensure vendors are up to par with regulations and industry standards, you will be protected against any potential future liabilities and ensure that your Personal Health Information is protected.

The Hutchmed drug, fruquintinib, is already approved in China for colorectal cancer. Takeda Pharmaceutical gets global rights to the small molecule, which has started a rolling submission with the FDA and is being readied for regulatory submissions in Europe and Japan.

As pharma becomes part of the value-based revolution, there are several lessons that can be learned from the ongoing development of value-based care.

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are warning their constituents about UPMC, claiming the health system has built a monopoly that negatively affects both employee wellbeing and patient safety. They said UPMC has “considerable power over workers, which it wields to keep wages low, conditions unsatisfactory and prevent union organizing.”

More than half of technology leaders at the country’s top 50 health systems by net patient revenue said they’re investing more money into interoperability initiatives in 2023 than they did last year, according to a new report. Participating in health information exchanges is a key way that health systems strengthen their interoperability strategy.

The healthcare navigation market — especially companies targeting self-insured employers — is fairly crowded. You have public companies like Accolade, failed public companies like Castlight Health, now private and merged with Vera Whole Health and a raft of other private companies like Included Health, Rightway, and HealthJoy. Not to mention point solutions for diabetes, MSK, hypertension, weight loss and so on that aim to lower costs related to these conditions for employers and health pla...

The new company is called Lucet and was created out of the 2022 merger between New Directions Behavioral Health and Tridiuum. Lucet unveiled its solution called Navigate & Connect, which helps connect health plan members to behavioral health care.

A collaboration between Nvidia and startup Evozyne was able to produce novel versions of a human protein never before seen in nature but with enhanced function and the same safety as native protein. The research lays the groundwork for potential new therapies for a rare inherited disorder.

Cancer continues to be a hot area of investment, and it’s the therapeutic focus of several biotech companies that have closed recent rounds of financing. Meanwhile, the investment arm of a big pharmaceutical company has an infusion of new cash to deploy in therapeutic and digital investments.