About 21,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses in Northern California ratified a new four-year contract — one that includes provisions for a 22.5% wage increase, improved staffing and more. The contract's approval comes about two weeks after Kaiser reached an agreement with California Nurses Association to avert what would have been the biggest private sector nurses strike in American history.
As hospitals face consolidation and CIOs are asked to increase staff productivity, tech companies that can support automation with solutions that are easy to onboard are getting heightened interest.
Verve Therapeutics received the formal FDA letter outlining what the agency wants to see before it lifts the clinical hold placed on the biotech's gene-editing therapy. The lifting of a clinical hold on another experimental genetic medicine was among the other recent regulatory news from the past week, which included two drug approvals and one rejection.
By Marissa Plescia Monday, December 5, 2022 5:35 PM
Employers have several strategies for combatting rising healthcare costs, including moving to more value-based care arrangements, said Ellen Kelsay, President and CEO of Business Group on Health. Other top health trends for employers next year will be continued support of wellbeing programs and health equity.
The next generation of HIEs must think beyond the transfer of information and explore how they can use real-time health data to improve population health outcomes, according to the CEO of Nebraska's HIE. A key way that her HIE is seeking to improve population health outcomes is through a program it launched six months ago to improve equity in maternal and postpartum care through identifying high-risk patients and sharing real-time information with providers.
By Marissa Plescia Monday, December 5, 2022 3:02 PM
Currently, only 13% of large employers — or companies with 200 or more employees — offer retiree health benefits, the Kaiser Family Foundation survey found. Of this group, 50% provide these benefits through a Medicare Advantage plan, up from 26% in 2017.
By Bent Philipson Monday, December 5, 2022 2:00 PM
Virtual reality exceeds the traditional training methods facilities often use, and this new immersive, experiential way to train staff members is critical for their proficiency and satisfaction.
An Amgen drug led to weight loss that was sustained, clinical data that support advancing the molecule to a Phase 2 test expected to start in early 2023. While AMG 133 trails rival products from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, Amgen hopes to offer patients a dosing edge.
Among the takeaways from HLTH 2022 were the impact of consolidation on clinicians, behavioral health tools to help consumers manage stress and anxiety more productively, and how health tech and medtech companies are supporting remote patient monitoring and testing.
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