by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new genomics service, called Amazon Omics, to run IT-heavy bioinformatics workflows for health care and life sciences companies. AWS built the service to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, analyze, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
General Electric Co. set the terms for the spinoff of its health care division, putting an initial value of roughly $31 billion on the soon-to-be-public company. The separation is set for January 3 after the markets close. Following the health care spinoff, it plans...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Payers
The latest Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker examines the prices for medical care compared to other goods and services. Overall, consumer prices in October grew 7.7 percent according to the Consumer Price Index, while prices for medical care grew 5 percent. The brief...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A Kaiser Health News article discusses ways to expand access buprenorphine to help treat addiction and prevent relapse. Industry experts offered several solutions, including: 1) emergency room doctors could prescribe a few days’ worth of the medication for a patient...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Providers
Kaufman Hall’s latest Hospital Flash Report indicates that the hospital sector is on track to end the year with negative margins. In October, operating margins declined 2 percent from the previous month and were down 13 percent from a year ago. Costs increased 1...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 30, 2022 | Life Sciences
Eisai Co. Ltd. and Biogen Inc.’s Alzheimer drug lecanemab slowed patients’ mental decline by 27 percent over 18 months, according to a trial presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference. However, more than one in five people...
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