With business models upended by COVID-19, hospitals are dusting off a decades-old model for bringing acute care into patients’ homes.
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Posted inHealth Technology
Science Under Pressure
Sites known as preprint servers post research in mere days. That speed has advantages during a health crisis, but it also comes with risks.
Posted inHealth Equity
Masking Problems
How racism makes wearing a mask in public much more complicated for one black doctor.
Posted inPublic Health
The Home Run Approach
Some scientists argue we should intentionally infect volunteers with the coronavirus to get a vaccine sooner. How would it work?
Posted inHealth Law
Bill, Interrupted
The coronavirus has dashed Colorado Democrats’ dreams of passing a highly anticipated public option bill.
Posted inHealth Technology
What the Fax?
Public health departments find themselves fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data that they need.
Posted inPublic Health
Disease Detectives
Inside one county’s efforts to use contact tracing to flatten the COVID-19 curve.
Posted inInsurance
The Medicaid Cliff
What happened to Medicaid during the last recession? And what can that teach us going into the next one?
Posted inInsurance
Return of the Risk Corridors
The Supreme Court ruled insurers are owed billions under an obscure ACA provision. What are the origins and implications of the case?
Posted inWorkforce
Primary Care on the Mend
The coronavirus is straining our primary care system. But, for some, the situation is starting to look up.