HHS Plan to Improve Rural Health Focuses on Better Broadband, Telehealth Services
(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) Knowing it may be met with some skepticism, the Trump administration Thursday
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An improved way to find & compare health care providers
(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) It’s more important than ever to be able to compare location, quality, and price information for health
Read MoreDrug Combination Slows Progression Of ALS And Could Mark ‘New Era’ In Treatment
(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) A combination of two experimental drugs appears to slow the decline of patients with amyotrophic
Read MoreHalf of Americans fear major health event will lead to bankruptcy, study finds
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Fifty percent of adults in the U.S. are concerned that if their household
Read MoreTelehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are plunging, forcing providers to recalibrate
(By Casey Ross for STAT) A nationwide dropoff in telemedicine visits is forcing providers who raced to ramp up virtual
Read MoreAs Telemedicine Replaces The Physical Exam, What Are Doctors Missing?
(By Kristen Kendrick for NPR) Despite a foothold in medicine that predates Hippocrates himself, the traditional physical exam might be on
Read MoreCalifornia Rx: State May Dive Into Generic Drug Market
(By Angela Hart and Samantha Young for Kaiser Health News) SACRAMENTO — California is poised to become the first state
Read MoreAI can detect subtle differences in the way people with Alzheimer’s disease use language
A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has designed an explainable AI tool that uses attention mechanisms and a convolutional
Read MoreState laws regarding generic drug and interchangeable biologic substitutions vary widely in the US
According to researchers, generic drugs saved the U.S. health care system $1.7 trillion between 2007 and 2016, and biologics currently
Read MoreOut-of-network providers price gouging COVID-19 tests, AHIP says
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Out-of-network providers are inflating the price of COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody tests, according
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