Vendors for DecisionPro (Jeremy Bischoff and Ken Greenwood) demonstrated a dashboard that links Medicaid spending to access and outcomes by county and legislative district, offers traceable source links for every tile, and includes both simple and SME views for legislators and staff.

The New York City Council Committee on Health is scheduled to hold a joint oversight hearing on Oct. 30, 2026, to examine pregnancy- and birth-related health outcomes among immigrants in New York City. The agenda lists the item as T2026-2660 and notes it is joint with the committees on Immigration and Women and Gender Equity.

The Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (VASM) briefed JCOTS on its fellowship programs, an AI summit set for Sept. 30–Oct. 1 at Virginia Tech, and a request for an additional $75,000 to deepen strategic road‑map work on AI, energy, health and quantum.

The Ambulance Corps’ chairman told the town board that a 2% contractual increase is insufficient to cover necessary paid EMT staffing and warned of gaps in emergency response if the town does not provide additional funding.

Sarah Simmons, a midwife and co-owner of Maple Street Birth Center in rural Okanogan County, Wash., holds a newborn. Washington state has among the highest number of birth centers in the country, but...

The UK Biobank has teamed up with industry partners to create "the world’s most detailed, large-scale picture of the human immune system."

Presenters described three test instruments—collective remittances, vouchers and diaspora bonds—and said funds will be released only after independent verification of defined clinical or service outcomes.

Health director told the board prepaid health plans will assume care-management services used for vulnerable pregnant women and children; the county program will no longer provide that contract service after Dec. 31 and staff warned of potential effects on community relationships and outcomes.

Background: Palliative care improves patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) by delivering specialty-level management for #Cancer symptoms. Digital symptom monitoring programs (SMPs) improve patients’ HRQoL through early symptom identification during #Cancer care. Through complementary approaches, SMPs and palliative care align with symptom management theory by linking the patient-reported symptom experience with clinician recommendations for symptom management to improve health outcomes for patients with serious illness. While both SMPs and palliative care reduce health care use and improve survival through detection and treatment of #Cancer symptoms, few studies have attempted to integrate palliative care into SMPs for #Cancer symptom management. Objective: This study aimed to assess patients’ perspectives about the #feasibility and acceptability of an SMP with a prompted palliative care self-referral option (Symptom Monitoring Program Linked to Electronic Referrals [SyMPLER]) via a mobile health (mHealth) app during lung #Cancer treatment. Methods: This is a single-institution qualitative study of patients newly diagnosed with lung #Cancer who were enrolled in a single-arm #feasibility pilot of an mHealth app that facilitates on-demand reporting of #Cancer-related symptoms and prompts patients to self-refer to palliative care for symptom management. Interview participants were purposively sampled based on high (≥3 uses) vs low (0-2 uses) engagement with the app during the first 3 months of access to the SMP. Questions focused on program #feasibility and acceptability as well as perceptions of the 5 components of the SMP intervention (introduction to palliative care, reminders, symptom reporting, palliative care self-referral, and oncology team callback). Interviews were conducted from May 2024 to May 2025 by telephone, recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: A total of 31 patients were interviewed; 21 had high and 10 had low app engagement. Participants were mostly White (n=29, 93.5%), female (n=21, 67.7%), and aged 60 years or older (n=19, 61.3%). In high and low engagement groups, participants voiced willingness and ability to report symptoms through the app and self-refer to palliative care if needed for symptom management. #feasibility barriers differed by group, with high-engagement participants noting forgetting to use the app for symptom reporting, while low-engagement participants cited low symptom burden, technology concerns, and time constraints as reasons for limited use of the SMP. Participants described uncertainty about when or why to request palliative care as a major barrier to self-referral. Conclusions: Participants’ perspectives on the #feasibility and acceptability of SyMPLER differed by their level of engagement with the SMP app. Participants in both groups voiced acceptance of the option to self-refer to palliative care, although #feasibility was limited by low uptake of palliative care self-referral. Participants suggested improvements to educational outreach, digital accessibility, customizable reminders, and recommendations for help-seeking behaviors based on symptom scoring thresholds to improve patient engagement with iterations of this SMP intervention. Trial Registration:

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Dr. David Prezant said the World Trade Center Health Program’s cancer patients have an 86% five‑year survival rate versus 63% for similar non‑exposed patients, a statistic officials say reflects the value of early detection and ongoing follow-up care.

This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.

Senate approves SB 158 to enhance early health screenings for improved patient care.

Marathon County officials recognized North Central Healthcare for statewide recognition as a 2025 Children's System of Care champion, citing improved Tri-County collaboration, a continuum of youth services, and reductions in out-of-home placements.

Gemma Venhuizen visits the cutting edge Dutch hospital Be...

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) included two provisions, the Employer Shared Responsibility Provision (the “employer mandate”) and the Small Business Health Options Program (“SHOP”), aimed at incr...