We live in a world super-saturated with nutritional intel, buzzy new diets launching every week, and heaps of contradictory food science. Not to mention, that fewer people than ever actually cook. What in the wellness are we supposed to do? And eat? We’ll clarify all of this with industry experts across the healthy food space. […]
Surescripts fires back at Amazon by kicking vendor ReMy Health off its network
Surescripts says that instead of using its own National Provider Identification (NPI) number, Pillpack fraudulently used NPIs that was associated with random healthcare providers.
Bay Area hospital that split with Sutter rebrands as MarinHealth
Marin General Hospital has added physicians and outpatient clinics since it split with Sutter Health in 2010. Its new name, MarinHealth, includes those operations.
CMS seeks input on sharing patient data ‘immediately’
The CMS hinted at some of the ways it plans to use technology to get patients more timely access to healthcare services and data as part of its latest set of proposed payment rules.
Stonemason with lung disease joins push to reduce silica dust in workplaces
Michael Nolan, who is waiting for a transplant, wants Australia’s exposure limit dramatically cut to save lives
A Victorian father with a life expectancy of only five to 10 years if he doesn’t get a lung transplant soon is pleading with authorities to reduce the national mandatory limit for silica dust exposure.
Safe Work Australia, the national body that develops work health and safety policies, will decide on Wednesday whether to reduce the dust exposure limit.
OITNB’s Jenji Kohan: ‘Iâd be far richer if Iâd stayed on Friends’
She worked on TV’s biggest hits – then revolutionised the way we all consume it with Orange Is the New Black. Jenji Kohan talks binge-watching, Love Island … and giving Joey VD
Deep into the new and final season of Orange Is the New Black, the groundbreaking Netflix show about life in a women’s prison, a character slumps in front of her TV, engrossed in Love Island. “I got obsessed with it,” explains Jenji Kohan, the woman who has been at the helm of OITNB for the last six years. “A friend who is British introduced it to my life last year, and I got unhealthily involved.” And so she wrote it into her series, giving her obsession to one of the characters, where it appears in the background like a branded water bottle.
Kohan does very few interviews – “I chose to be a writer for a reason. I don’t particularly want to be in front of the camera, so to speak” – but she is funny, dry-witted and very frank. So much so that she ends our conversation with a wistful: “I hope I didn’t say stupid things that will bite me in the ass later.”
Castlight Health EPS misses by $0.01, misses on revenue
Apple, Microsoft and Google to test new standard for patient access to digital health data
A newly released data model and draft implementation guide for providing digital access to historical health insurance claims data directly to patients could mean you have better access to this info from the devices you use everyday. Called the CARIN Blue Button API, it’s a new model developed by private sector partners including consumer organizations, […]
Apple, Microsoft and Google to test new standard for patient access to digital health data
A newly released data model and draft implementation guide for providing digital access to historical health insurance claims data directly to patients could mean you have better access to this info from the devices you use everyday. Called the CARIN Blue Button API, it’s a new model developed by private sector partners including consumer organizations, […]
Young, British and Depressed: we need way more TV like this
There’s a crisis in mental health among young people – and anyone who questions it is viewed as deeply controversial. Thankfully, this documentary asked all the right questions
‘We’re encouraging young people to talk about mental health but, when they do, the support is not always there,” was the key message from last night’s Dispatches: Young, British and Depressed on Channel 4.
Last year, there were 700,000 referrals of children and young people into mental health services – a 45% increase in two years. What questions should we be asking about such a sharp rise? Can it really be that this generation’s teenagers are inherently more sad, anxious or vulnerable than those of the past?