The tech-justice firm Foxglove has issued a lawsuit on behalf of news site openDemocracy over a National Health Services deal with the controversial big data firm Palantir Technologies. According to Sky News, the lawsuit claims that NHS England failed to consider the impact of the deal on patients and the public by performing a fresh… Read More »
Gay, chlamydia, and other men who have sex with men; as well as pregnant women should also get tested for chlamydia. How long a person remains infectious able you transmit the bacteria to others is difficult to determine since so many people are asymptomatic. Infections detected non-sexually treatment with one of the recommended treatments more… Read More »
Five employees at Good Samaritan Hospital in Silicon Valley were sent home for about two weeks after coming into contact with a patient with coronavirus. The patient, who had just traveled to Wuhan, China, where the outbreak started, wore a mask the entire time he was at the hospital, and was directed by health officials… Read More »
Dive Brief: Anthem and Passport Health Plan intend to appeal Kentucky’s decision to award Medicaid managed care contracts statewide to five other insurers, leaving them out of the lucrative bid. Both companies confirmed to Healthcare Dive they will proceed to the formal bid protest process. Aetna, Humana, Molina, UnitedHealthcare and WellCare were the winners in… Read More »
After rolling out a bespoke EPR at London’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Cambridge-headquartered PatientSource has signed a contract with another charity in the capital to digitise the delivery of its services. The Brandon Centre, located in Kentish Town, provides free sexual health, counselling and psychotherapy services to people under the age of 25 that live… Read More »
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Cigna reached a new, multi-year agreement on January 1, the day beneficiaries would have lost in-network coverage. The terms of the agreement were not released. In a statement on Cigna’s Save Our Healthcare site, the insurer said its commercial customers will have uninterrupted, in-network access to Tenet Healthcare facilities and affiliated… Read More »
Pope Francis has been heavily criticised after he compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”. Addressing worshippers in the Vatican, he said terminating a pregnancy was the equivalent of getting a hitman to “take out a human life to solve a problem”. The pontiff’s remarks – some of his strongest yet against abortion… Read More »