Years After He Quit Smoking, a Lung Cancer Scan Saved His Life
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and older adults are at higher risk. But only about a quarter of patients eligible for screening…
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Right Dose, Right Age: WHO Updates HIV Medicine Guidance for Children
WHO Updates HIV Medicine Dosing Guidance for Newborns, Infants and ChildrenWhen it comes to medicines, one size does not fit all, especially when treating newborns and children.The World Health Organization…
A Federal Policy Is Complicating How Organizations Battle the Opioid Crisis
Drug test strips are credited with saving lives, but a new policy will limit how funds can be used for them. Advocates of harm reduction strategies who responded to a…
Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution
The $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program is set to flood rural America with new AI health tools. That’s despite little evidence on whether health-related AI can improve access…
Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying if They Are “AI Enough”
Everybody wants to be “AI-first” because the market is telling them they need to be. But what is AI-first? Is it AI-native? Is it software that has successfully threaded AI…
From “Maybe” to Baltic Gods: The Stories Behind Virus Names
Hundreds of new RNA viruses are discovered every year, but every discovery brings an unexpected challenge: what should the new virus be called? While some names describe where a virus…
Kyndryl to Acquire Healthcare IT Leaders: Scaling AI Modernization Across Hospitals and Payors
What You Should Know Kyndryl announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services and consulting provider for hospitals, health systems, and payors. The acquisition bridges…
Redesign Health Study: 71% of Health Systems Adopt an “Epic-First” AI Purchasing Strategy
What You Should Know 71% of surveyed health system leaders describe their organization as “Epic-First,” and 80% expect this preference to intensify over the next 3 to 5 years, according…
Beyond Pack-Years: Why Lung Cancer Detection Demands a Shift to AI-Driven Case-Finding
Most conversations about closing the lung cancer screening gap focus on uptake, and for good reason. Just 18.7 percent of eligible Americans were up to date with low-dose CT screening…
The Silent Breakdown of Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare organizations often already possess the information they need. The gap lies not in visibility, but in execution, in how quickly, consistently, and at scale they can turn that information…