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By JOE FEGHALI Healthcare has become very good at producing disclosures. It is much less good at producing understanding. A hospital posts a price file. A health plan publishes negotiated rates. AContinue reading...
By EMANUEL SARKEES The United States is in the middle of what researchers are calling one of the most significant pharmacological developments in modern medicine. GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drug class behindContinue reading...
By JOHN SAMARAS Ask what Ozempic costs. The honest answer runs from 25 a month to 1,100 a month, and every number in that range is real, published, and defensible. A phraseContinue reading...
By KIM BELLARD The most (unintentionally) amusing story I read this week was Tim Higgin’s Wall Street Journal article Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI. Dr.Continue reading...
By CRAIG HAUBEN Ask anyone outside healthcare who resists clinical AI and you’ll get a confident answer. The older doctors. The ones who spent thirty years building expertise and now see aContinue reading...
A couple of months back I hosted a conversation about my favorite topics, primary care and how telehealth and AI are changing it. The panel was Timm Schneider — Co-Founder COO,Continue reading...
By DAMIAN WONJO Every clinician keeps a private list of the patients they don’t see. Not the ones who cancel, the ones who never book. The shift worker who reschedules the sameContinue reading...
By MATTHEW HOLT It’s hard to imagine but I may now be in possession of the stupidest letter I’ve ever received from an American health insurance company–-and I’m the guy who gotContinue reading...
By KIM BELLARD Well, let’s see. Last week much of the U.S. and parts of Europe were under a crippling heat dome. The U.S. celebrated its 250th birthday. And there’s something calledContinue reading...
