Health

On Thursday, I was among roughly 15 journalists, influencers and industry analysts invited to the headquarters of UnitedHealthcare and Optum in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. When the invitation came a month …

Upside, a housing stability platform partnering with health insurers, announced Thursday that it raised $20 million in Series A funding. The company’s AI-powered platform helps payers and employers identify members …

Healthcare has spent the better part of a decade building data lakes. The original problem was straightforward and worth solving: clinical data lived in silos, providers could not see the …

Healthcare has gotten good at finishing things. Discharge instructions are handed over. Follow-ups are scheduled. Portal accounts are created. Bills go out on time. Every one of those is a …

The clinical burnout crisis in the U.S. has been making headlines for years, and it continues to remain an unsolved problem. Stress and burnout levels have fallen a bit since …

Regulatory pressure is mounting on Amgen’s inflammatory disorder drug, Tavneos, with the European Medicines Agency recommending revocation of the product’s approval in its territory. The move follows an FDA proposal …

A group of Democratic senators introduced a new bill on Thursday that would create a $5,000 cap on out-of-pocket costs for traditional Medicare beneficiaries. The Medicare Cost Cap Act was …

A few years ago, I started experiencing symptoms I couldn’t explain, and no one could explain them either. Fatigue that wouldn’t lift, heart palpitations, an inability to lose weight regardless …

A metabolic disorder that leads to high levels of fat in the blood and life-threatening pancreatic complications now has its first FDA-approved medicine, an RNA-targeting therapy developed by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. …

One of the most standard ways to measure the country’s hospital crisis is to count closures, but one hospital finance expert thinks that isn’t necessarily the right number to watch. …