MIT spinout Bloomer Tech is developing a wearable electrocardiogram device designed to look and feel like a bra.

Accelerating clinical evidence generation is one of the most important steps the healthcare industry can take to advance personalized treatment, Amy Abernethy declared in an interview this week.

More than 330 healthcare organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a telehealth prescribing flexibility that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Highmark, an insurer in Pennsylvania, will now cover AppliedVR’s RelieVRx, a device for chronic low back pain, the companies announced Monday. This makes Highmark the first commercial insurer to ...

Home blood glucose monitoring was first introduced in 1980. While there were initially hurdles to overcome related to accuracy and cost, a consistent hurdle since that time has been efficient data ...

Cancers of the head and neck can be treated with several drugs on the market, but for certain patients diagnosed with this this common type of cancer, outcomes are worse and better therapeutic ...

Across every channel — both face-to-face and digital — patient communications have undergone an incredible transformation over the last few years. Hospital leaders are realizing that each ...

Results from a new JAMA Network study support the large-scale use of FIT tests. The findings show that those who complete one or more fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screenings are associated with ...

The issue of fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare spending is a major challenge for both payers and providers with some estimates that it accounts for as much as 10 percent of overall healthcare ...

Over 4 billion prescriptions were filled at local pharmacies across the US in 2019. Up against close to a billion outpatient visits and 26 million hospitalizations, pharmacy continues to be the ...

To tighten oversight and minimize overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule in 2023 that revamped the agency’s approach ...

The US has some of the worst maternal health outcomes among developed countries in the world, and while the maternal mortality rate is declining, wide disparities in poor maternal health outcomes ...