Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
This roundup will be published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an…
Bipartisan Legislation Efforts Build Against PBMs
Yet another bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced Friday that aims to keep pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in check. This time it’s the Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act, introduced…
MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Tom Richards, Transcarent’s New EVP of Business Development
The MedCity Moves Podcast is back with another episode. We dive into some of the executive appointments occurring in the healthcare sector over the past month — including new leaders…
Zus Health Snags $40M, Strikes Partnership with Elation Health
Healthcare technology veteran Jonathan Bush describes the industry’s endless repetition of medical information as “a lethal game of telephone.” That persistent problem is why he founded Zus Health in 2020,…
MedArrive, Ouma Strike Partnership To Bring Maternal Care to Medicaid Members
Home care company MedArrive teamed up with virtual maternal care provider Ouma Health to bring maternity services into Medicaid members’ homes, the companies announced Monday. New York City-based MedArrive serves…
How Patient Engagement Systems Move Patient Care Forward and Benefit Staff
As today’s healthcare landscape continues to change, the standard of optimizing healthcare performance has developed beyond the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) to…
Takeda Details the Clinical Data That Led to a $4B Deal for an Autoimmune Drug
Takeda Pharmaceutical struck one of the biggest life science deals of 2022, acquiring a clinical-stage Nimbus Therapeutics drug addressing a promising new target for autoimmune disorders. Other than saying mid-stage…
An Innovative Return on Investment Methodology that is Honest and Reliable
Today, specialty care drives the majority of cost and complexity in healthcare. The focus on return on investment (ROI) of medical solution investments will be fundamental to benefits selection moving…
Myocardial revascularization improves myocardial function and prognosis in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Italy: Myocardial revascularization has been recommended to improve myocardial function and prognosis in ICM (ischemic cardiomyopathy). In a recent article in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the researchers…
Novel PET radiotracer promising for detecting several cancers, holds potential for new targeted radionuclide therapy
China: A new radiotracer, 68Ga-FAP-2286, is promising for safe cancer diagnosis, staging, and restaging, a recent study published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine has shown. The study revealed that…