A number of major health technology companies have partnered with the White House in an effort to standardize the sharing of patient data on social determinants of health.

The 37-year-old pediatric cardiologist has already been fired from his position in the Our Lady of the Lake health system. Investigators have said they found no evidence that his patients were involved in any of the explicit materials. 

Medicare Part A and B premiums will drop in 2023, marking the first decrease in a decade.

Grocery delivery services company Instacart has launched Instacart Health, which the company says will work to make nutritious food more accessible and address social determinants of health.

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug therapy has slowed cognitive and functional decline by 27% versus placebo in a double-blind, randomized study of 1,795 individuals with early signs and symptoms of the disease.

Patients with autoimmune hepatitis may be better monitored across disease stages by AI-augmented multiparametric MRI than by liver biopsy, as the imaging has proven less costly and is inherently less risky due to its noninvasiveness. 

One Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in New York, has acquired Prime Time Healthcare, an Omaha, Nebraska-based healthcare staffing firm.

Social vulnerability index scores account for factors like socioeconomic status, household composition, disability, minority status, language, housing type and transportation.