Healthcare

Finding the right medication regimen to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex healthcare challenge. Wearable health trackers provide physicians with a detailed window into patients’ symptoms, but translating this complex data into useful treatment insights can be difficult. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science accomplishes just that. Researchers found that combining wearable health tracker data with state-of-the-art algorithms results in promising treatment strategies that could improve PD patients’ outcomes.

Tighter margins and the need for more resources are driving independent physician practices under the ownership of hospitals and health systems, a trend known as vertical integration. Proponents say these bigger organizations allow smaller providers to compete more in highly concentrated markets and improve care coordination and quality. But studies from the past few years say the opposite, that vertical integration increases pricing without improving quality and harms competition.

Fourteen Hartford HealthCare doctors have projects they think could be accomplished, or completed more efficiently, if only artificial intelligence were applied to them.

It’s been 10 months since the Food and Drug Administration first announced a nationwide shortage of Adderall — and the supply strain could potentially worsen in the months ahead.

A new semester will begin shortly at the University of Illinois. Students from across the state, nation and world will converge in Champaign-Urbana as the university welcomes tens of thousands. Many will be returning for another year of education, while some will be here for the first time.

For a small percentage of cancer patients, doctors are unable to determine where in the body the disease originated.

Anyone who had a kid with RSV this winter, their own infection or ADHD diagnosis, or a relative with cancer likely discovered that getting drugs to treat the problem has become a problem itself.

Could this be the year when America starts to shift away from the employer-sponsored health insurance model?

Could this be the year when America starts to shift away from the employer-sponsored health insurance model?

Could this be the year when America starts to shift away from the employer-sponsored health insurance model?