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The combined organization will have more than 680 provider locations in 26 markets. With CVS Health and Amazon both making major acquisitions, the Summit Health deal was both offensive and defensive for Walgreens, one expert said.

In order to provide quality pediatric care, children’s hospitals need more government support, Children’s Hospital Association CEO Mark Wietecha argued in a recent letter to Congress. He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid's low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.

We now know that the once widely accepted approach in which physicians were believed to “always know best” and as a result dictated their orders to unquestioning patients is suboptimal medical care. In its place, healthcare is beginning to evolve to a more patient-centered, holistic model

Sanofi will use Insilico Medicine’s tech to advance drug development candidates up to six new targets. Disease indications were not disclosed, but the pharmaceutical giant said the new agreement will boost its drug discovery research in China.

ECRI recently issued an alert warning hospitals about the cybersecurity risks associated with the use of third-party analytics tools, such as Meta Pixel, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics. When providers install these tools on their websites and patient portals, they may be exposing patient data — which tech companies can use to target medical-related ads to consumers as they browse the Internet.

Startups will be plentiful at the upcoming HLTH conference at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas November 13-16. Here's a glimpse of some of the healthcare pain points they're addressing.

It is more urgent than ever to take the necessary steps to ensure the needs of Latino communities are included in future public health planning to avoid repeating mistakes that led to unnecessary suffering.

Cedar recently launched a new set of features to bring the disconnected ecosystem of healthcare entities together and make billing easier to understand for patients. Pittsburgh-based payer Highmark Health and its health system, Allegheny Health Network, are the first customers to implement the product, which Cedar dubbed its “payer intelligence layer."

The FDA placed a clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ application to begin human testing of its gene-editing therapy for an inherited form of high cholesterol. No details about the FDA’s questions or concerns were disclosed; so far, no serious safety problems have been reported in the U.K. and New Zealand where the clinical trial is already underway.

More than half, or 58%, of health plan members are “overwhelmed” when it comes to managing their health plans. Insurers need to provide information in a way that's accessible and easy to understand, the report stated.