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Study Confirms mRNA Boosters Extend COVID-19 Protection but Wane Over Time

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/17/2023 Leave a Comment

Study Confirms mRNA Boosters Extend COVID-19 Protection but Wane Over Time

What You Should Know: - A nationwide U.S. study of more than 893,000 adults provides solid evidence confirming that mRNA booster immunizations extend protection against moderate and severe COVID for four to five months.  - These findings, published in The BMJ, provide a more complete understanding of the effectiveness and durability of third and fourth doses of the mRNA vaccines, informing policymakers and providing individuals with confirmation of the importance and value of
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Healthcare Profit Pools to Reach $790B by 2026, Report Reveals

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/24/2023 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Profit Pools to Reach $790B by 2026, Report Reveals

What You Should Know: - Healthcare profit pools are expected to grow 4 percent annually resulting from $654 billion in 2021 to $790 billion in 2026, according to a new McKinsey report. - The report reveals inflation is not transitory and the economic outlook has meaningfully darkened due to a healthcare worker shortage and endemic COVID-19.   What to expect in US healthcare in 2023 and beyond The US healthcare industry faces demanding conditions in 2023, including
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Praying For The Survival of the NHS Will Not Be Enough To Save It

by Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell 01/24/2023 Leave a Comment

What Has COVID Ever Done For Us?

It’s often said that the National Health Service is the closest thing Britain has to a unifying religion. If that is the case, then the faith of the population is being tested like never before, With budgets already stretched before the COVID pandemic, additional cost pressures since heaped on health boards across the country by double-digit inflation have brought the NHS closer to breaking point than at any time in its history. Every passing day seems to bring bleaker news for the
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COVID-19 Health Systems Impact: What Will Stop The Cash Hemorrhage?

by Eugene Chan, MD, co-founder and chairman of Abpro 01/23/2023 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Health Systems Impact: What Will Stop The Cash Hemorrhage?

The material cost of COVID-19 has been at the center of public discourse since the early days of the pandemic. In 2020, growth in federal government spending on healthcare increased 36 percent, compared to the 5.9 percent bump in 2019. While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the
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Trust in Local Hospitals/Health Systems Increased During Pandemic

by Syed Hamza Sohail 12/23/2022 Leave a Comment

Trust in Local Hospitals and Health Systems Increased During the Pandemic

What You Should Know: - NRC Health, the leading partner in building Human Understanding through personalized healthcare solutions and data-driven insights, released findings from its national Market Insights study that reveal that people trust local hospitals and health systems far more than they trust federal, state, and local government to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. - NRC Health also found through its experience surveys that patients’ language preferences are a strong predictor of
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PE Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue

by Syed Hamza Sohail 12/02/2022 Leave a Comment

PE Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue

What You Should Know: - A new report, “Private Equity Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue,” by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) focuses on healthcare company Wellpath and the regulatory risks that the company continues to take in local jails and prisons.  - Wellpath is owned by private equity firm H.I.G. Capital and is among the largest healthcare companies serving U.S. prisons and jails. Wellpath has had a litany of staffing and access to
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Summer Health Launches Messaging-Based Pediatric Care to Combat the RSV, Flu, and COVID Tripledemic

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/29/2022 Leave a Comment

Summer Health Launches Messaging-Based Pediatric Care to Combat the RSV, Flu, and COVID Tripledemic

What You Should Know: - Summer Health, the first text-based pediatric care provider designed to offer parents support, prescriptions, and referrals within just 15 minutes, today launched free trials to combat the U.S. tripledemic plagued by the rise of RSV, Flu, and COVID cases amongst children. - Amid a growing pediatric-care crisis that has caused an overflow in emergency rooms and doctor’s offices across the country, Summer Health aims to help relieve the overwhelming burden and be the
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3 Seismic Shifts Transforming Women’s Health – FemTech

by Leah Sparks, CEO and Founder of Wildflower Health 11/23/2022 Leave a Comment

Three Seismic Shifts Transforming Women’s Health

My company recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which prompted me to reflect on the progress of the women’s health sector over the last decade. There has been so much change, so many technological innovations and clinical breakthroughs. And yet, two things haven’t changed all that much. Our outcomes in the U.S. have not improved; in fact they are in decline. This is true whether you are measuring maternal mortality, health equity, or complication rates.  And as an industry, we’ve yet to
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Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread

by Jasmine Pennic 11/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread

What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai researchers have developed an Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry to address the need for contact tracing and agile exposure investigations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among hospital staff. - Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry is a cloud-based digital framework using the Research Electronic Data Capture web application—to track and reduce the spread of the virus across the Mount Sinai Health System including 8 hospitals and more than
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Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights

by Shirley H. Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH, Director of Patient Navigation Program & Nurse Practitioner for Genesis Healthcare Partners 10/27/2022 Leave a Comment

Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights

Fear of COVID-19 exposure isn’t the only thing holding patients back from seeking needed care during the pandemic. So are the complexities of navigating life after COVID-19—and it’s a struggle that physicians, who are overworked and burned out, can relate to as well.  Even as data indicates that consumer deferment of care—common during the first 18 months of the pandemic—has decreased, not all consumers have returned for care as soon as expected. In some instances, financial concerns
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