It’s well known that heart failure is a sweeping national problem — the condition affects more than 6 million Americans and costs the country more than $30 billion per year.
Geisinger, like many other health…
About one in every four male deaths is related to heart disease, making it the leading cause of death for men in the U.S. One company is looking to alleviate the situation.
San Francisco-based Hims…
About 37 million people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, yet about 40% of people with severely reduced kidney function don’t know they have chronic kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease…
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Ever since the pandemic’s virtual care boom, the telehealth market has been a crowded one. Over the past year or so, healthcare stakeholders have been watching closely to see how various telehealth startups restructure…
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Providers’ adoption of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology has accelerated since the pandemic began, driven in part by improved reimbursement rates. Still, many health systems are still figuring out how to deploy these tools…
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In the 1980s, Haner Hernández only requested to attend a drug treatment program in order to get out of prison. Back then, he was only approved to be released from prison and go into…
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Nearly half of the U.S. population lives in a mental health workforce shortage area. Horizon Healthcare Services is working to address this by adding Resilience Lab to its commercial network, the companies announced last…
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This year, several new companies have emerged from Redesign Health, a New York City-based company that launches healthcare startups. Some of these include children’s mental health provider Fort Health, women’s healthcare platform Iron Health…
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Last week, the CFO of the country’s largest private psychiatric hospital operator stated that the company chooses which patients to treat based on whose insurance plans offer the highest payments. Steve Filton, CFO of…
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As the conversation around weight loss drugs grows, new modes of delivering weight management programs keep cropping up.
This time it’s Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care company geared toward women consumers and employees. The…
