In this conversation, Matthew Hoag, director of integrated behavioral health at Denver Health, shares how the organization is innovating through integration to meet the behavioral health needs of its communities. One example is its state-of-the-art mobile opioid treatment unit.
Joyner is looking to the future to right the ship while committing to the diversified portfolio of businesses CVS has that include: drugstores and an array of outpatient services and primary care clinics; the Caremark pharmacy benefit management company; and Aetna, which has more than 27 million medical members including more than 4.4 million enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans.
Oregon health officials are reviewing Samaritan Health Services' plan to purchase a small hospital and clinic group east of Salem. Samaritan, a Corvallis-based nonprofit health network, announced its intent to purchase Santiam Hospital and Clinics, a nonprofit health system based in Stayton, in late May. The two submitted their definitive merger plans last month to state health officials for regulatory review.
Medicare regulators on Friday finalized rules to pay for some mental health apps, a breakthrough for digital therapeutics companies that have struggled for a foothold in the health care system.
Zapping the brain with waves of ultrasound might be key to beating addiction. That's according to new research of a $1 million helmet-like device that beams these high frequency waves at a key part of the brain that's responsible for reward, motivation and addiction.
Researchers have developed tiny, wireless devices capable of wrapping around individual neurons, potentially aiding in the treatment of neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis.