Factors Shaping the Post-COVID Payer Market
June 15th 2020Understandably, there is a lot of nervousness around how COVID-19 is going to affect the healthcare industry-both in the near-term as well as the distant future. As the organizations that will have to take on a majority of the financial and operational burden of the COVID pandemic, providers will be hit the hardest in the short-term. As a result, a majority of relief, both at federal and local levels, can be expected to be centered around rescuing providers post-COVID.
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The Post-Pandemic Challenge for Addiction Treatment Facilities
June 12th 2020Despite everything we hear in the news lately, there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 cloud. For certain, the landscape of the Addiction Treatment Industry has changed and arguably, the old ways of doing business are no longer sustainable in this environment.
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ACAP Encourages Americans to Learn about Their Coverage Options
June 12th 2020Filling a void left by the Trump Administration, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) recently announced a campaign to remind Americans who need health insurance because of the COVID-19 that they may be eligible for coverage through healthcare.gov.
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SCAN Health Plan Names Sachin Jain New CEO
June 12th 2020Former CareMore Health CEO Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, perhaps best known for his effort to treat loneliness among seniors as a health issue, has been named CEO of the SCAN Group and the SCAN Health Plan, a not-for-profit that focuses on this growing population.
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Diabetes Management & Telehealth with Leslie Kolb
June 11th 2020Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, chief science and practice officer, Leslie Kolb chats with MHE Associate Editor Briana Contreras in MHE's newest podcast Tuning into the C-Suite about diabetes management and how it's affected by the use of telehealth, especially during the current and trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in a COVID-19 Vaccine
June 11th 2020Drug makers around the world are racing to develop the first effective COVID-19 vaccine. Early efforts show promise, but an anticipated jump in the novel coronavirus cases in the fall means the sooner a vaccine is developed, the more lives can be saved-and the pharmaceutical industry plays a major role in this discovery.
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FHIR Interoperability: What is it and Why Should We Care?
June 11th 2020Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR, is a long-awaited interoperability rule that will enable seamless, on-demand information exchange of clinical records among providers and data systems and will result in coordinated, cost-efficient care.
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COVID-19 Changes Landscape, Highlights Need for Women in STEM
June 9th 2020The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on healthcare, the global economy, and people’s daily lives. FinTech executive Monica Eaton-Cardone notes that the crisis also underscores the need to encourage women to make careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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CHOP Researchers Repurpose Cancer Immunotherapy Tools for COVID-19 Vaccine Research
June 9th 2020Cancer researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are repurposing tools used for the development of cancer immunotherapies to identify regions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to target with a vaccine, employing the same approach used to elicit an immune response against cancer cells to stimulate an immune response against the virus.
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Preparing for Post-Pandemic Transformation in Healthcare, Life Sciences
June 8th 2020Nothing can bring a healthcare system to its knees quite like a pandemic. What COVID-19 is leaving in its wake is a new respect for numbers - for accurate data that can predict new threats, track current ones and trigger an avalanche of innovative responses.
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During the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2020 Annual Meeting, Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, and Genentech presented plans for the Prospective Clinico-Genomic study (PCG), a low-interventional pilot that will use a technology-enabled prospective data collection platform to simplify data collection for patients with lung cancer being treated through clinical trials.
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