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Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It's been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.

Making predictions in unpredictable times can be dangerous. As long-held certainties – even ones as basic as person-to-person contact – have proven unreliable, perhaps we can only really trust the trends that bring us the flexibility to deal with the unexpected. Healthcare is the perfect bellwether. The sector has borne – and continues to bear – the brunt of this volatility. It has been severely limited by emergencies such as the pandemic, just as these events have driven surgin...

The contracts are with Steward Health Care Network, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mass General Brigham and Boston Accountable Care Organization, which is part of Boston Medical Center. The healthcare organizations will be focused on reducing disparities in several areas, including high blood pressure and colorectal cancer screenings.

BehaVR offers care for anxiety, mental wellness, pain management and maternal health, while OxfordVR is primarily focused on serious mental illness, such as PTSD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Through the merger, OxfordVR’s products will join BehaVR’s platform, providing services for a whole range of mental health conditions.

Clinical research as a care option is a means of connecting patients with clinical research as part of their ongoing health care, located where they receive that care, and offered by their trusted provider.

The intentional use of specialty care coordination inside value-based, accountable primary care structures are necessary tools in the march to reward value and positive health outcomes over the volume of services rendered.

The health system will enter a new reality with the public health emergency lifted After several renewals, most expect the Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) to be lifted in 2023, which has huge implications for health plans and members. Medicaid/CHIP enrollment has grown by 18.2 million since the onset of the pandemic in February 2020. As part of the PHE, states suspended the need to revalidate members’ eligibility for Medicaid. It can be a complicated process where the member needs ...

Override provides chronic pain patients with a care team that includes a pain physician, a physical therapist, a psychologist and a coach. The company has received $3.5 million in seed funding and has acquired Take Courage Coaching.

Unlike Alzheimer's disease, which is characterized primarily by memory difficulties, but generally not major changes to personality or language, Frontotemporal dementia strikes at the core of what makes us who we are. Fortunately, there are several ongoing clinical trials addressing this disease.

Check out new developments from Equiva Health, BehaVR, Juno Medical, Cabinet Medical and Override.