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How freelancer Mohana Ravindranath covered direct-to-consumer medical tests
Freelance journalist and AHCJ member Mohana Ravindranath, reporting through the Association of Health Care Journalists’ U.S. Health System Reporting Fellowship, has been investigating the rise of preventive screening tests marketed directly to consumers and their potential implications for health costs and equity. Her first story, about how doctors aren’t sure what to do with the…
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Telehealth on the line: What could happen this spring?
As part of the American Relief Act signed by President Biden in December, certain telehealth benefits for Medicare beneficiaries were extended only until the end of March 2025 — instead of a three-year extension as proposed in a Continuing Resolution. These benefits and the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program are now set to…
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2025 Health IT trends: Emerging technologies, AI remain prominent
Last year was busy for the health information technology sector, with a continued focus on artificial intelligence and a record number of cybersecurity breaches. What can we expect this year? Once again, AHCJ turned to Colin Hung for insight. Hung, chief marketing officer and editor of Healthcare IT Today, frequently travels to health technology industry…
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Biased devices: Reporting on racial bias in health algorithms and products
Doctors measure health in many ways, from routine blood tests for cholesterol or kidney function to using devices like spirometers to test lung function or pulse oximeters for blood oxygen levels. But the results of these routine tests can be misleading because some tests and devices are skewed by algorithms that produce different results depending…
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What to know about FDA’s new Digital Health Advisory Committee
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently created its first advisory committee for digital health. The emergence of digital health over the last several years and the recognition that some of these tools and applications inform direct health care delivery spurred this decision, said committee member Thomas Maddox, M.D., Maddox was a panelist at Health…
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LGBTQ+ Health Advocates Sound Alarm Over CDC Data On American Youth
LGBTQ+ Health Advocates Sound Alarm Over CDC Data On American Youth In 2021, 69% of LGBQ+ teens reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared to 35% of heterosexual teens, according to a recent CDC report. This stat is likely understated because the report did not include information about those…
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3 reasons Why Natural Language Processing Will go Mainstream This Year
3 reasons Why Natural Language Processing Will go Mainstream This Year NLP in healthcare can accurately give voice to the massive amount of unstructured data of the healthcare universe, and here are the three reasons why I believe 2023 is the year that we will see increased adoption of NLP across the industry. Information Courtesy…
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