MHE Staff

Population immunity is required in order to beat COVID-19. According to an opinion piece by Michael Criqui and Robert M. Kaplan on NPR, a quicker end to the pandemic requires two policy changes: delaying inoculation of those with prior COVID-19 infections, and temporarily widening the interval between the vaccine doses.

Mobile Healthcare Services has launched in Massachusetts, offering a variety of customized COVID-19 testing program options and conducting more than 30,000 mobile COVID-19 tests per month to help mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The move to put Witty in charge of the healthcare giant is described as "abrupt."

She helped launch the ACA as a top Obama administration official.

Based on results of the VISION study, the FDA has granted accelerated approval to tepotinib for MET exon 14 skipping altered metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Costs for electronic processing have decreased as costs for manual and partially electronic transactions have increased, resulting in opportunities to save $16.3 billion in the future.

CVS Health will begin to offer COVID-19 vaccinations February 11 to eligible populations, specifically those in underserved populations, at a limited number of CVS Pharmacy locations across 11 states in the United States.

The approval come following the results of a phase 3 trial.

The president-elect says his administration will set up 100 community vaccination sites during his first month in office.

The prevalence of heart failure is increasing as the demographic profile of the American population gets older.

The pandemic has accelerated dramatic changes to the health industry such as virtual care, mental health and health equity.

Survey of millions of consumers shows evolving trends in healthcare through ongoing pandemic, from future of care delivery, care deferment to patient-provider relationships.

UT Southwestern Accountable Care Network in Dallas led the pack in 2019 shared savings, garnering $50,626,938.

The new company will serve 60 health systems.

The Pharmacy partnership program with nursing homes and assisted living facilities has benefited patients most vulnerable to COVID-19 with the vaccine rollout. The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living claim, so far, things are going ok.

In this final part of a six-part series, most are neutral-to-negative on chance of meaningful change.

How the pandemic has accelerated innovation, and how CVS Health is preparing to delivery vaccines for COVID-19.

In this fifth part of a six-part series, data said respondents split on the effect of the pandemic on value-based care

In this fourth part of a six-part series, data shows the pandemic severely affected revenues, expenses.

In this third of a six-part series, respondents give administration poor marks.

In this second of a six-part series, the biggest concern is short supply.

Respondents ranked the importance of healthcare issues.

The second mRNA vaccine, which does not need the extreme refrigeration of the Pfizer product, began rolling out of a warehouse in Mississippi early Sunday. Friday brought other late-year approvals in cancer treatment.

Pfizer's other vaccine news of the week involves pneumococcal disease.

A filing for a bispecific antibody, and more time after a therapy gets more responses.

The subsidiary, called Vivid Clear Rx, will provide PBM services to help the company's 88,000 employees better manage their healthcare costs.

CVS and Walgreens are poised to vaccinate residents and employees of long-term care facilities. Dentists and optometrists are angling to be among the healthcare professionals who could administer the COVID-19 vaccines.

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. patients are likely to switch to a new healthcare provider if their current health provider doesn’t meet their expectations for managing COVID-19 concerns.