An eight-hospital health system in the Pacific Northwest has set up an AI-based “mission control center” to manage patient capacity, bed availability, hospital transfers and patients’ health status.

Healthcare benefit costs in the U.S. are expected to rise 5% next year, causing large employers to up their efforts to save, according to a survey from the National Business Group on Health.

Illinois became the first state to require insurance companies to pay the costs of EpiPen injection medicines for children 18 and younger.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 3435 this month, CNN reported—a law that will require insurance companies to cover all costs of EpiPen injections for anyone under 18 years old.

Two institutional-based health plans in New England have announced their plans to merge.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are only keeping less than 1% of rebates in the Medicare Part D program, passing on the rest of drug savings to plan sponsors, a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, recently made a rather strange suggestion: that people use the bathroom less frequently to help protect the environment.

Synthetic mammography (SM) can be used as a replacement for digital mammography (DM) during digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), leading to a significant reduction in radiation dose. But are radiologists utilizing SM?