More than a year ago, the U.S. healthcare system marked a turning point with the passage of the No Surprises Act (NSA). Signed into federal law after extensive negotiation between health plan insurers and providers, the NSA took full effect at the start of 2022 to protect the rights of patients and health plan participants from receiving excessive balance bills for certain emergency services and from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities.

Collecting patient-reported outcome (PRO) data is an integral function of clinical research, providing the patient perspective that enriches the evaluation of treatment effectiveness. Historically, patient-reported outcomes measurement (PROM) was performed predominantly with paper-based assessments. However, over the past two decades, there has been a notable paradigm shift towards the electronic collection of data.

Cancer care continues to be one of the key cost drivers contributing to the $3.5 trillion healthcare costs in the United States, but minimally invasive treatments like Cryoablation Therapy may hold the promise of significantly reducing oncology related costs, while improving patient outcomes. It has the potential of reducing months of recovery time to only a few minutes, and the scope of cryoablation expands exponentially especially when utilized in concert with personalized precision medicine. Read on.

The growth of in-home care along with technology improvements like AI are shifting how medical device companies manage their inventory and final-mile deliveries. This, coupled by the increase of innovations like robotic-assisted surgeries, is creating a lasting impact on the medical devices supply chain. In fact, the healthcare third-party logistics (3PL) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.6% from 2023 to 2030.

Watal writes, “Today, we see machines becoming more intelligent and capable than humans in many areas, from driving cars to diagnosing diseases. AI solves problems we cannot even approach, and it’s getting better every day — but what does this mean for us?