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To digitize healthcare and lean on the emerging technologies is to find the opportunity within the relationship between machine and human to augment humans’ ability to be human – to empathize and provide the compassionate touch to care.

In total, there are 3,959 Medicare Advantage plans being offered for individual enrollment in 2024, a 1% decrease from 2023, according to a new report from KFF.

About 85,000 Kaiser Permamente workers voted to ratify a new contract, putting to end what was the largest strike in the history of the healthcare industry. The new contract includes terms for higher wages, more employee education, increased hiring and retention efforts, and greater involvement of frontline workers in the health system’s staffing decisions.

Real-time insights enable laboratories to be more proactive, strategic, and responsive in managing their staffing needs and mitigating the impact of market forces affecting labor shortages.

As the industry moves towards more personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics could play a key role in keeping patients healthier longer and in getting them viable treatments for their unique genetic profile.

One of the major lessons learned during the pandemic is that hospitals and medical facilities are not always the safest places to recover, especially for seniors and those living with chronic conditions. Compounding this issue is that 85% of seniors in the U.S. live with one or more chronic conditions. With the United States being home to 55.8 million seniors, this is a very real, local issue. The home is often the most comfortable, convenient and safe place to recover from an illness, injury, ...

Cargo Therapeutics will use most of the IPO proceeds for clinical testing of a cell therapy engineered to overcome a common way cancers develop resistance. This program is based on research from the National Cancer Institute.

Sustainability efforts in healthcare have a high return on investment and are worth leaders’ time, budget and resources. But one question remains – how?

Utilizing innovative technologies to prevent workplace violence and enhance security in healthcare has the potential to increase staffing retention, ultimately improving hospital operations, administration, and the healthcare industry as a whole.

Blue Shield of California is now offering Mahmee, a maternal health company, to eight employer groups. It comes after a successful pilot in which Mahmee served 80 members.