An American family that has become one of the wealthiest in the nation due to sales of the powerful opioid OxyContin misled doctors and patients about the dangers associated with the drug, The New York Times reported.
Healthcare plans and providers are increasingly addressing social determinants of health that can impact patient outcomes and overall costs. Now, California-based Kaiser Permanente is looking at tackling housing insecurity with a $100 million loan fund for affordable housing.
Tyto Care extends the oversubscribed 2018 round led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund with new investors Japan’s Itochu, Sanford Health of the US, and Shenzhen Capital Group of China
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has named Anna Goldenberg, PhD, as its first chair of biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence, the University of Toronto recently announced.
Change Healthcare and Health Fidelity are partnering to offer a risk adjustment coding solution that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to increase claim accuracy and address compliance issues, the companies announced Monday, Jan. 14.
Walmart and CVS Health will no longer be in the same network for filling prescription drugs after the two companies couldn’t come to a drug pricing agreement, CVS announced.
Ping An Insurance Company of China’s corporate venture fund is investing in AI medical solution company Airdoc, the company announced on Saturday, Jan. 12.
The longest partial government shutdown in history has paused paychecks for roughly 800,000 workers and stalled the appeal process of a ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
IBM is planning to use AI and machine learning to better understand Parkinson’s disease after being awarded a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
