A sprawling movement built around concerns over the food supply and drug industry profiteering is poised to shake up health policy in the new Trump administration — and is already stoking disinformation concerns.
Rula announced that its network of more than 10,000 mental health providers will now be available to Amazon customers through Amazon's Health Conditions Programs. Rula connects patients with mental healthcare professionals and offers extensive support during multiple steps of a patient's mental health experience. The digital health provider's network covers more than 80 clinical specialties across 50 states and Washington, D.C. Health Condition Programs allows customers to tap into digital health benefits offered through their employer or insurance carrier.
Among the organizations working to bolster and rebuild Ukraine's medical systems is the NGO Global Response Medicine, which develops battlefield-to-rehab care protocols and trains health care workers in the systems and procedures they need to practice wartime medicine. Recently, GRM brought a group of Ukrainian healthcare workers to Boston Medical Center's Solomont Simulation Center.
A federal program serving 2.8 million veterans isn't delivering on key promises. The Veterans Community Care Program was set up to help veterans secure appointments with providers near their homes when they can't receive care from a VA facility. It has been touted as an important safety net as demand for mental health care grows. But the cost of the referrals has been rising, reaching nearly $30 billion in fiscal 2023. And since it was established in 2019, the program aimed at bypassing long wait times has instead exacerbated them, at a higher cost to taxpayers, per reports.
Boston Children's Hospital retaliated against a woman by firing her after she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit, a jury determined last week at the conclusion of a trial that also provided an extraordinary window into the hospital's gender clinic. The hospital must now pay Amy Tishelman, a psychologist who is a leader in the field of youth gender medicine and the former research director at the clinic, nearly $2 million in back pay and damages. However, the jury did not find Boston Children's discriminated against Tishelman.
Care delivery has never been an easy task. For decades, it was seen as a function of society delegated solely to hospitals and clinicians. However, over the years, care delivery has also become increasingly more complicated, begging for more innovation and change as a means to improve quality of care, increase access to care and ultimately, optimize health outcomes.