As the COVID-19 pandemic struck, policymakers looked to researchers to both predict the future trend of the pandemic as well as examine how different policy options would impact society. Both epidemiologists and economists rose to the challenge, creating a variety of models to help inform ...

Dennis Matheis will take over as president and CEO of Sentara Healthcare on Sept. 1, the integrated not-for-profit health system announced Friday.Matheis, president of Sentara Health Plans and executive vice president of Sentara Healthcare since 2018, will succeed Howard Kern, who plans to ...

The Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion in a ruling issued Friday. The historic decision has major consequences for the healthcare system. Below is a compilation of statements from healthcare organizations, companies and government officials responding to this massive change ...

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. On Dec. 8, 2020, a retired shop clerk in England received the first shot in ...

University of Vermont Health Network (South Burlington, Vt.) has opened an adult psychiatric unit at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, N.Y., according to the website wamc.com. Situated on the sixth floor, the 19,000-square-foot project comprises 18 private patient rooms ...

The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to safety-net hospitals' Medicare rate calculation.The high court resolved a years-long fight between the Health and Human Services Department and the hospital industry by ruling the agency appropriately interpreted Medicare law when it changed a formula ...

Baptist Health (Louisville, Ky.) topped out its Baptist Health Hamburg facility under construction in Lexington, Ky., according to an article in kentucky.com. The four-story ambulatory care center will include an emergency department (ED), cancer center, medical office building (MOB), and ...

CVS Health and Walgreens see business opportunities in promoting participation in medical research, especially among segments of the population that have historically been underrepresented in clinical trials.Scientists struggle to recruit and retain study subjects in about 80% of trials and ...

Company to exhibit and deliver presentation on solution which enhances decontamination, increases sterilisation processes, ensures mission-critical medical devices are available at the right place and time, for robust and efficient care saving billions of pounds across the ...

Patients want new treatments to improve their quality of life. However, do typical patient reported outcomes adequately capture new treatment’s impact on factors that patients care most about? A paper by Perfetto et al. (2022) argues that the answer is ‘no’. The article notes that not ...

A Supreme Court decision that greenlighted a private health plan's limited dialysis coverage may set the stage for other insurers to cut pay for kidney care and other treatments Medicare covers.The high court rejected a challenge to an employer health plan's low reimbursements for dialysis, ...

Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealthcare have come to terms on an agreement that adds the provider to the insurer's network, the health system announced Thursday.The Mayo Clinic stopped accepting appointments from out-of-network patients to preserve hospital capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic early ...