The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a new program for alternative payment model participants that would allow clinicians to use products containing CBD as part of patient care plans. In response, the Food and Drug Administration vowed not to further restrict the sale of oral hemp products.
On the technical and ethical planes, the National Academy of Medicine’s fresh guidance may represent the best way yet to ensure alignment of healthcare AI stakeholders.
The shoulders on which healthcare AI stands span from the advent of the World Wide Web, email and electronic medical records to the ubiquity of smartphones, patient portals, telehealth and personal health wearables.
However, partisan divides dwindled when respondents were asked about how federal cuts to healthcare spending would strain their local communities, particularly in rural and low-income areas.
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association—a trade lobby representing pharmacy benefit managers—argues a state law that would force companies to divest from drugstores could leave patients without access to critical medications.
American Medical Association President Bruce Scott, MD, explains some of the key issues facing physicians, including burnout, growing medical staffing shortages, doctors leaving rural areas, increasing patients and declining Medicare payments.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts and the University of Toronto found that racial minorities were less likely to have a medical insurance claim appeal approved, as were men more broadly.
