COVID-19

Everly Health Solutions alleged that Walgreens broke the terms of a 2020 business contract during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Philips Vice President of U.S. Government Solutions Christina Nichols discusses how her company is reimagining and utilizing innovations developed during the pandemic to now address health equity.

Zahid Ali, founder of Techmedo, finds changemakers rising to the challenges the pandemic has caused.

This week's top stories include the Mayo Clinic no longer scheduling appointments for patients in most Medicare Advantage plans, and an Oklahoma City hospital's security response after COVID-19-related social media posts accused providers of murder.

This week's top stories include SCOTUS blocking the Biden Administration vaccination rule for employees of large companies, while upholding a mandate for healthcare workers at facilities that accept Medicare and Medicaid funding, and digital medicine platform Akili plans to go public through merging with SPAC Social Capital Suvretta.

Chris Wickersham, director of customer support at health IT consulting firm CereCore, discusses patient portals in the age of COVID-19 and in the future.

The telehealth and digital health innovations that started during the pandemic are here to stay, says Sri Bharadwaj, VP of digital innovation at the Franciscan Alliance.

Using AI to check medication histories helped limit face-to-face contact during the pandemic, says Rebecca Sulfridge, clinical pharmacy specialist, emergency medicine, at Covenant HealthCare.

Loneliness is a real issue for both patients and providers, and more empathetic care is needed to alleviate it, says Frank Cutitta, founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab.

This week's top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion this year, Apple looking to add a feature that could detect potential mental illness, and a link found between ransomware and increased mortality rate.