Eroding ACA Enrollment Portends Higher Insurance Rates
An uptick in people skipping Obamacare premium payments in many states suggests the Affordable Care Act’s rising costs — driven partly by lower subsidies to help people buy plans —…
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Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump
The data behind alcohol-related traffic deaths is well studied. Less understood is the toll of vehicle deaths involving drugs or a combination of drugs and alcohol. Attempts to fix that…
Wheel and b.well Connected Health to Launch AI-First Virtual Care Infrastructure
What You Should Know Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven healthcare experiences. Platform Integration: The…
Reimagining Medical Devices in the AI Era: The 3 Structural Shifts Driving Venture-Scale Growth
What You Should Know: In their newly released whitepaper, Medical Devices in the AI Era, Aegis Ventures outlines how the medical device sector has historically underperformed in venture portfolios, remaining…
Atropos Health and Guidehouse Launch Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You Should Know Atropos Health and Guidehouse have launched a jointly developed clinical decision support (CDS) solution designed to operationalize real-world evidence (RWE) directly within clinical workflows. The Combined…
Parexel Launches ParexelAI Suite of Human-Led AI Services for Clinical Trials
What You Should Know Parexel has introduced ParexelAI™, a proprietary suite of human-led AI services designed to accelerate clinical development operations. Quantified Efficiencies: The suite is already delivering a 50%…
M&A: Qualtrics Completes $6.75B Acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta
What You Should Know Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah history. Category Expansion: The…
Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs
New ethics disclosures show the president invested in Eli Lilly and a company that manufactures injectable devices as his health agencies implemented policies that benefited them.
Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge
Some children are healthy enough to leave the hospital after a medical stay but have no place to go. Across the country, the practice of allowing children to remain hospitalized…
A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy
The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the U.S. health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore…