by Jordana Choucair | Oct 12, 2021 | M&A
Best Buy announced it will acquire Current Health, a British tech company that helps with remote patient monitoring and telehealth. The acquisition bolsters the company’s health portfolio. Best Buy acquired GreatCall – a company makes easy-to-use cell phones and...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 12, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
A new report from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) found that 58 percent of the health systems surveyed identified health equity as a top priority, up from 25 percent in 2019. However, many systems reported facing significant barriers, including...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 12, 2021 | Life Sciences
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll revealed that 83 percent of the public favors allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare and private insurance plans. Ninety-three percent of respondents agreed that even if the prices were lower drugmakers...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 12, 2021 | Access & Coverage
The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a judge’s ruling that blocked Texas’s restrictive new abortion law while the case makes its way through the courts. The government argues that the ban on most abortions after about six weeks...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 11, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
Anthony Fauci said in a CNN interview that things are headed in the “right direction” as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths trend downward. However, he cautioned that people shouldn’t “just throw your hands up and say it’s all over” given that 68 million...
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