Now, decades later, Humana is getting back to its roots of providing medical care.
This time, the company is hyper-focused on transforming primary care for older people.
The national health insurer is investing heavily in building clinics in underserved areas across the country. It s also partnering with primary-care startups like Oak Street Health, ChenMed, and Iora Health to reach more seniors. And last year, Humana pumped $100 million into telehealth startup Heal to bring primary care into patients homes.
Humana s quest, CEO Bruce Broussard told Insider, is to weave together health insurance with the delivery of healthcare. Integrating the two could lead to lower costs and better health outcomes, he said.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26, 2021 - The mechanism by which acute viral respiratory infections promote secondary bacterial growth and infection in the airways depends on iron-carrying extracellular sacs secreted by the cells lining the host s airways, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a paper published today in
Cell Reports.
The sacs, or vesicles, which carry iron bound to a protein called transferrin, associate with bacterial cells and supply them with essential nutrients, promoting the growth of expansive bacterial communities. The finding gives us a glimpse into how bacteria exploit the host s defense system against pathogens and can offer a new way for creating therapies to prevent secondary bacterial infections in the clinical setting.
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When pharmacist Erin McCreary moved to Pennsylvania in 2018, she didn’t anticipate ever having to administer vaccines. She’d taken a vaccination certification course back in pharmacy school six years earlier, but it wasn’t part of her job description as an infectious diseases pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. That’s why she wasn’t concerned about the state pharmacy board rule that pharmacists had to file their certificate within two years of receiving it or they’d have to take the course again.
“Well, now, of course, COVID-19 happened,” McCreary told
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BEIJING A Chinese city has brought 2,600 temporary treatment rooms online as the country s north battles new clusters of coronavirus.
The single-occupancy rooms in the city of Nangong in Hebei province just outside Beijing are each equipped with their own heaters, toilets, showers and other amenities, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Special attention has been paid to Hebei because of its proximity to the capital and the province has locked down large areas to prevent further spread of the virus. The provincial capital Shijiazhung and the city of Xingtai, which encompasses Nangong, have been largely sealed off from the rest of the country. Community isolation and large-scale testing have also been enforced.
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