Health
WTW: There’s A Disconnect Between Employers and Employees on Wellbeing Programs
Employers are prioritizing mental wellbeing programs, but employees say they need financial wellbeing support, according to a survey from WTW. The post WTW:...
Best hospital for Congenital Hip Dislocation Treatment
Developmental dysplasia of the hip, also known as congenital hip dislocation, is a congenital condition wherein there is instability or malalignment in the...
A Retrospective Claims Analysis of the Rate of Complications in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
That is the title of my recent paper with co-authors Denise Clayton, Glorian Yen, Lincy Geevarghese, Yulin Shi Anem Waheed. The abstract is...
Inventors (and Innovators) Wanted
By KIM BELLARD I thought about writing about the election, but I’m too anxious – and a little terrified – about it, so...
Should Dynamic Drug Pricing be Incorporated into Cost-Effectiveness Analyses?
Cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) aim to examine how a new health technologies impact health outcomes and costs over a patient’s lifetime. While extrapolating...
5 Interesting Companies I Saw at HLTH
I met a mix of biotech and healthtech companies at HLTH affecting everything from drug development, drug efficacy to controlling specialty care costs...
Patty Hayward, TalkDesk
Patty Hayward is GM of Healthcare and Life Sciences at TalkDesk. TalkDesk runs the technology for contact centers that helps companies across health...
How chatbots are enhancing patient care
Consumers have come to expect options when communicating with the companies they support and buy from. They want to know that they can...
Medicaid Coverage of and Spending on GLP-1s
This brief examines the implications of rising prescriptions for costly GLP-1 drugs for state Medicaid programs as more states consider covering the drugs...
Anorexia Nervosa: A Nervous Scenario!
The term ‘anorexia’ refers to ‘loss of appetite,’ but this does not mean that those with anorexia nervosa do not feel hungry. Instead,...
