Caring for patients with ADHD, or those who potentially have ADHD, extends far beyond diagnosis and prescribing. The post The Battles We Face: ADHD From A Patient Perspective, And What Providers Should Know appeared first on MedCity News.

What healthcare needs now is a connected, deeply integrated system of action that works with the system of record to complete work across the enterprise, supported by accountable partners willing to stand behind the outcomes they create. The post Three Ways Distressed Healthcare Must Evolve appeared first on MedCity News.

Function Health raised $450 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, just eight months after its $298 million Series B. The lab-testing startup plans to use the capital to expand access to its testing and imaging services. The post Why General Catalyst Is Betting $450M on Function Health’s Preventive Care Push appeared first on MedCity News.

MedCity News’ new event for healthcare investors and corporate business development leads — Bullseye — hit the mark when it comes to provocative and thoughtful commentary. Here’s what was said in panels throughout the day. The post We Are Rats; If Pharma Could Be Brave … And Other Bullseye POVs You Won’t Hear at Other Events appeared first on MedCity News.

The FTC and the states of Utah and California sued Hims & Hers, alleging it improperly shared consumers’ health information and misled customers about billing, subscriptions and cancellations. The post Why Hims & Hers Is Embroiled in Yet Another Controversy, This Time with the FTC appeared first on MedCity News.

Johnson & Johnson also gains an exclusive option to acquire Sail Biosciences for $2.58 billion. The deal puts J&J in the mix of pharmaceutical companies developing next-generation cell therapies for applications in autoimmune diseases. The post J&J Joins Immune Reset Race, Paying $785M to Partner on Sail Bio Cell Therapy appeared first on MedCity News.

Interdisciplinary coordination between nephrologists, primary care providers, pharmacists, dieticians, and everyone who interacts with patients is essential to ensure patient education, improve adherence, and reduce medication errors. The post More Medications, Less Clarity: Strengthening Polypharmacy Support for CKD Patients appeared first on MedCity News.

The between a code that satisfies a payer and the information a physician needs to treat a person, is what nearly every healthcare AI tool is racing past. As we push these systems toward precision medicine and genomics, that gap stops being an annoyance and becomes a patient safety issue. The post The Code Gets You Paid — The Variant Gets You Treated appeared first on MedCity News.

[Sponsored] A new whitepaper by League highlights examples from collaborations with Baptist Health. The post Moving Beyond Reactive Healthcare: 5 Traits of Successful Healthcare Organizations appeared first on MedCity News.

Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care platform. The post Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care appeared first on MedCity News.

With the merger, Processa’s new lead asset is a Vidya Therapeutics immunology drug that offers pipeline-in-a-product potential addressing a target that has clinical and regulatory validation from a recently approved Novartis drug. Vidya’s molecule is a next-generation drug that could have advantages over Novartis’s pill. The post Processa Acquisition Lands Immunology Drug That Could Rival a New Novartis Product appeared first on MedCity News.

A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic’s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger — but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on. The post Epic-First Doesn’t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from Startups appeared first on MedCity News.

CMS’s new framework sounds like a gentle opt-in. There’s no requirement to meet every standard on day one, just a commitment to work toward doing the right thing. That sounds great. But to actually participate in the network, you have to meet a baseline level of interoperability. The post A New Era of Interoperability, But Who Gets Left Behind? appeared first on MedCity News.

The most common and most expensive misunderstanding in healthcare cloud strategy is treating the cloud as a destination you either reach or you do not, when it is really a progression through five distinct stages, each one unlocking capabilities the stage before it could not support. The post The Healthcare Cloud Maturity Model: The Five Stages Most Health Systems Skip appeared first on MedCity News.

Throne Science — a startup selling an AI-powered toilet camera that tracks gut health, hydration and urinary function — closed a $10 million Series A funding round. CEO Scott Hickle said the goal is to become a “smoke detector for colorectal cancer,” filling a monitoring gap he noted the wearables industry has largely ignored. The post Smart Toilet Sensor Startup Is Flush with $10M Funding appeared first on MedCity News.