New Delhi: IT major Wipro on Tuesday announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help healthcare companies accelerate the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Wipro will leverage NVIDIA’s AI software for enterprises for the production of AI across its current portfolio of healthcare solutions in the affordable care act (ACA), Medicare, and Medicaid, the company … Read more
“If I were a younger person, I think I would be able to rebound from all the difficulties I’m having,” she told me. “I just never foresaw myself being in this situation at the age I am now.” Elaine Ross “Please help! I just turned 65 and [am] disabled on … Read more
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Wednesday, July 06, 2022 (Kaiser News) — An ounce of prevention … well, you know the rest. In medicine, prevention aims to spot problems before they worsen, affecting both a patient’s health and finances. One of the more popular parts of the Affordable Care Act, which allows patients to … Read more
Photo Credits: Audtakorn Sutarmjam / EyeEm / Getty Images Jose Luis Pelaez Inc / Getty Images Tom Werner / Getty Images SOURCES: Adria Gross, founder, MedWise Insurance Advocacy, New York. Anthony Martin, licensed insurance agent and CEO, Choice Mutual, Reno, NV. Calloway Cook, president, Illuminate Labs, Northampton, MA. Dena DiNardo, psychologist and marriage and … Read more
Dec. 3, 2021 — As Senate Democrats debate the Build Back Better Act, which includes measures that would lower prescription drug costs for consumers, a new Urban Institute study finds that 12.8 million adults delayed getting or didn’t get needed prescription drugs because of cost. The people who deferred or went without these prescription drugs … Read more
FRIDAY, Sept. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When the COVID-19 public health emergency ends, a new crisis in insurance coverage in the United States may begin. Fifteen million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the pandemic could lose their coverage when the emergency declaration ends, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute, a … Read more
By Daryl Austin Wednesday, May 19, 2021 (Kaiser News) — In 1993, Dr. David Silber, a dentist now practicing in Plano, Texas, was fired from the first dental clinic he worked for. He’d been assigned to a patient another dentist had scheduled for a crown preparation — a metal or porcelain cap for a broken … Read more
By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News Wednesday, April 21, 2021 (Kaiser News) — Facing a yearlong siege from the coronavirus, the defenses in another, older war are faltering. For the last two decades, HIV/AIDS has been held at bay by potent antiviral drugs, aggressive testing and inventive public education campaigns. But the COVID-19 pandemic … Read more
Nov. 7, 2020 — Joe Biden’s victory sets the stage for health care to become a high-profile priority of his presidency. The former vice president has sketched out a big health agenda: ramping up the federal response to COVID-19, boosting the Affordable Care Act, creating a new “public option” to cover uninsured Americans, and … Read more
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Here’s evidence that prescription drugs don’t have to cost a fortune: New research finds Medicare saved billions as more generic cholesterol-lowering medications became available, even though the number of Americans using the drugs increased. “One of the most important contributors to … Read more