States are preparing to spend a share of a $50 billion federal rural health fund on artificial intelligence tools, and the peer-reviewed evidence that these tools improve access to care or patient health in rural communities is so thin it could fit in a short bibliography. A recent academic review found only 26 peer-reviewed studies…
Business of Health Care Reporter Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He is also the author of the Health Care Inc. newsletter. You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09.
By Kath Hudson 31 Jul 2026 UK Active CEO, Cameron Saunders, has written an open letter to the UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, congratulating him on his appointment and expressing a willingness to work with his government. There’s hope Burnham could be a gift for the sector, as he fully understands the importance…
Recent research has prompted closer scrutiny of prebiotic sodas, suggesting that not all beverages marketed for gut health provide the same nutritional value. Researchers found that some commercially available prebiotic sodas contained relatively high amounts of sugar and lower amounts of dietary fiber than consumers might expect based on their health-focused marketing, raising questions about…
Southeast Asia’s insurance industry has quietly turned into one of the region’s most crowded battlegrounds for digital disruption. Behind traditional insurers’ glossy premiums and paperwork-heavy claims lies a swarm of insurtechs rewriting the rules, some genuinely solving access gaps, others simply repackaging old products with an app and an API. From Singapore’s bolttech and Igloo…
Federal regulators have accused one of the largest direct-to-consumer telehealth companies of routing customers’ health conditions to advertising platforms while marketing itself on privacy. The Federal Trade Commission, joined by Utah and by California through Los Angeles County Counsel, sued Hims and Hers Health on July 29 in federal court in San Francisco. The complaint…
Asked to name their top two priorities for policymakers on maternal health, registered voters put preventing maternal deaths first, at 32 percent, ahead of early care and intervention during pregnancy at 22 percent. The survey, released July 30 by the advocacy organization Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America and conducted by KAConsulting, polled 1,001 registered voters…
Luke Walch | 12:00am BST 26 July 2026 Every few months another headline declares Test cricket dying, usually accompanied by a photograph of a half-empty stand somewhere. The trouble is that the picture is a lot messier than any single photograph can show, and the numbers pull in genuinely different directions depending on where you…
Healthcare management is a career choice for people who want to make healthcare better without being a doctor, nurse or therapist. It combines business, leadership and patient support which allows professionals to make a difference behind the scenes. Healthcare managers help hospitals, clinics and other organizations work well by taking care of staffing, budgets and…
According to a research study published in the European Journal of Cancer, cardiovascular health calculators can be repurposed to predict a person’s odds of developing cancer. A few small calibration tweaks allowed statisticians to use widely used heart health prediction tools QRISK-3, SCORE-2, SCORE-2OP and pooled cohort equations to highlight people in danger of developing…
