WELFARE STATE AND INSURANCE

Several nations, including Thailand, Germany and India, have warned against spreading coronavirus-related misinformation on April Fool’s Day, with some countries threatening jail time for perpetrators.Thai officials announced Tuesday that such…

Kyle Silvestro Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SyTrue “You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data. A … Read More

The United States passed a grim milestone on Tuesday as it surpassed China in the official death count from the coronavirus.The United States now has 3,415 deaths from the virus, surpassing China’s figure of 3,309, according to a tracker from Johns…

 As many as 25 percent of people with the coronavirus may never show symptoms, says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield.In a Monday interview with NPR, Redfield said that COVID-19, the disease caused…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday urged the U.S. to “get ahead of” the coronavirus, saying the outbreak won’t be defeated by “playing catch-up.”Speaking at his daily press conference, Cuomo said the country has been slow to react to the…

An analyst wrote that a best-case scenario for Amarin is that it may take 2-3 years for generic versions of Vascepa to hit the market. But the company has likely lost its luster as an acquisition target.

Nuvo Group received 510k clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its wearable sensor band, which can monitor fetal and maternal heart rate data.

Molecular diagnostics are at the frontier of science, but insurance and billing questions create a minefield for patients.

I have written about the 340b program a number of times on this blog in the past (e.g., “The 340B Program: An Overview“, “340B Facts and Figures“). A new commentary by Thomas and Schulman (2020) in Health Services Research provides some additional information. For instance, why was 340B originally enacted? Blame the Medicaid Drug Rebate…

– FCC new program would provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country; separate connected care pilot program would study long-term role of telehealth. – The $200 million Program would immediately support healthcare providers responding to the pandemic by providing eligible healthcare providers support to purchase telecommunications services, information services. Federal Communications … Read More