by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2022 | Mental Health
The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, was out of service for several hours Thursday. Intrado, the telecommunications provider for the service, issued a statement on its website saying that the company was...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A bipartisan bill to increase access to treatment for opioid addiction has a good chance of being rolled into a year-end package during the lame-duck session. The bill would remove a requirement that health care providers get a special waiver from the Drug Enforcement...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2022 | Providers
A coalition of physician groups led by the American Medical Association asked a Texas judge not to implement a nationwide injunction on a key portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that covers preventive services. In September, the judge ruled that the...
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...
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