Centene, Walgreens and RxAdvance have teamed up to form a pharmacy benefit management model to boost transparency and achieve better health outcomes with lower costs, the companies announced.
Working alongside machine learning technology can help radiologists detect more breast cancers, according to new findings published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Trained on nearly 1 million screening mammography images, researchers from New York University found their algorithm could push radiologists’ ability to accurately identify breast cancer to nearly 90%.
Despite a litany of bad press in recent months, a study published Oct. 17 in Addiction suggests e-cigarettes help some 50,000 smokers in the U.K. quit nicotine each year.
The rise of AI is an exciting change for healthcare providers all over the world, but implementing these groundbreaking technologies still comes with its fair share of significant challenges.
A government effort to shift noninvasive cardiac testing from provider-based settings to hospital-based settings more than a decade ago inadvertently increased healthcare costs in the long run, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.
“The ACR remains deeply concerned about the sizable cuts this proposal will impose upon radiology and other medical providers that do not frequently bill E/M services," the college said.
UC San Diego Health is testing the use of a minimally invasive, handheld device that can more easily detect and demolish kidney stones, without the need for x-rays or sedation.
The American Medical Association has joined forces with 110 other healthcare industry groups representing hundreds of thousands of physicians to urge Congress to find a balanced approach to surprise medical billing legislation.
