“AI is essentially expanding and reshaping and personalizing telehealth practices in triaging, image analysis, patient diagnosis, treatment planning, surveillance and mental health.” Why is this important: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing phenomenon in today's world. Writing emails, creating marketing tools, writing speeches, creating lesson plans, answering everyday questions, and AI is all around us and has a huge impact. Specifically, in the healthcare and healthcare world, AI is expanding, restructuring and personalizing telehealth practices in a variety of ways. Create a doctor appointment and think about the process that goes afterwards. First, you will need to make an appointment,…
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An entry-level registered nurse or midwife would be earning almost £40,000 per year if NHS salaries had kept up with inflation, according to new figures from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Under the conditions of the 2025-26 pay offer from the UK government, an Agenda for Change band 5 registered nurse or midwife currently earns £31,049, up from £29,970 for 2024-25. “Nursing staff are tired of playing constant financial catch-up, often struggling to pay rent or get on the housing ladder” Patricia Marquis However, the RCN has published new analysis on how it views the impact of successive government…
Nursing leaders in Northern Ireland have warned that a new government plan to overhaul the Health and Social Care (HSC) service will falter without immediate action on fair pay and safe staffing. It follows the launch of an HSC reset plan by health minister Mike Nesbitt last week, which aims to stabilise, reform and deliver services amid a growing financial crisis in his department. “We are extremely concerned about the messages within the plan on funding and pay” Rita Devlin The plan builds on Mr Nesbitt’s existing three-year strategy for the HSC and has been published during what he described…
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies have issued disastrous warnings to Republican lawmakers that if millions cut Medicaid funds to help pay President Donald Trump's big tax and spending bills, millions of people will lose their health insurance and hospitals will close. However, Republicans ignored those pleas, making deeper cuts, sending the law to the White House on July 3, where Trump signed it the following day. Passing the law marked a rare political loss for some of the health industry's biggest players. When unified, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies stand among Washington's most powerful lobbying forces, with a long…
President Donald Trump's July 4th signing the 2025 Budget Settlement Bill Act marks one of the most consequent overhauls of federal health policy since the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To help educate clients about their impact, Holland & Knight's Health Care Policy Team invites you in a series of webinars that cover in greater detail what this law means for the healthcare industry. In this first webinar, our lawyers and experts discuss the most important changes to one big beautiful bill law targeting the Medicaid program and dig deep into how our clients can prepare. Topics include: Expanding nationwide community…
For healthcare industry stakeholders, the current environment is perhaps more dynamic, more volatile and, in many ways, more challenging than ever before. Emerging Biological Disability Companies (EBPS) are no exception. Essentially, EBP lacks the weight to affect complexity and external forces of change. Just like weather, these dynamics are uncontrollable, but it is important to stay informed of environmental forecasts. With that in mind, consider this blog as a “weather report” for industry trends in 2025. This highlights some of the most important policy, regulation and market changes and sets the IQVIA Insight Brief stage on how EBPS can adapt…
In response to the recent US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the New York State Department of Health (“NYS DOH”) has issued a Cybersecurity Advisory (“Advisory”) warning health providers, including hospitals, treatment centers, and healthcare workers, that are likely to be an increase in cyberattacks and increased cybersecurity threat activity. This recommendation follows similar announcements and warnings from the US Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), the NYS Intelligence Center (NYSIC), and Health-ISAC (Centre for Information Sharing and Analytics). This advisory encourages healthcare providers and organizations to enhance physical and information technology (IT) security controls to protect against known attack technologies…
This article is part of the HHCN+ membership With a multi-state footprint, including large national players like AccentCare and Help at Home, home care providers are discovering not only cultivating strong local presences, but also comforting clients and caregivers, driving better outcomes and strengthening referral pipelines. Combining national enterprise resources with a personalized approach to care requires dedicated marketing and operational strategies, experts told Home Health News. “We've seen a lot of effort into our business,” said Janet Weinz, executive homecare brand president. “They feel that they understand where they live, their culture, etc. They really feel that they are…
After reporting issues with home care business and selling the current health of a home-focused technology company, Best Buy Health has fired 161 employees. The layoffs will take effect September 12th, according to the California Worker Coordination and Retraining Notice (WARN) report. Based in Boston, a subsidiary of Best Buy, Best Buy Health offers virtual care, consumer health products and device-based emergency response services for the elderly. The layoff announcement comes weeks after Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) sold its current health to the company's co-founder and former CEO Christopher McGhee. Best Buy owned the company for less than four years.…
A newly appointed specialist nurse in the North East of England is pioneering the provision of more personalised patient care for her local armed forces community. A former British Army nurse, Hannah Robertson, has recently been appointed as a Help for Heroes nurse at the University Hospitals Tees group. “Not all people need my help, some just like to have a chat and tell me about their military careers” Hannah Robertson North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formally agreed to work closely together and form the group, short of a merger, in February…