Consumer-Directed Healthcare and Meeting the IT Challenge

Two investigational therapies for Rett syndrome, using different technologies, aim to control expression of the delivered gene and avoid the adverse events associated with conventional gene therapy.

Briana Contreras, an editor with Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Harsha Rajasimha, MD, founder and executive chairman of IndoUSrare, in this month's episode of Tuning in to the C-Suite podcast. The conversation was about how the disparity in diversity and ethnicity in rare disease clinical trials in the U.S. has led to gaps in understanding diseases and conditions, jeopardizing universal health, and increasing the economic burden of healthcare.

The authors found that patients who received DAA treatment had a five-year survival rate of 47.2% compared with 35.2% for untreated patients.

Managing Editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, Peter Wehrwein, had a discussion with William Shrank, M.D., a venture partner with Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, about how artificial intelligence's role is improving healthcare, where we are today with value-based care and the ongoing efforts of reducing waste in the healthcare space for this episode of the "What's on Your Mind" podcast series.

Electronic health records often do not record when someone has died. The deceased continue to get a variety of healthcare reminders.

A recent study has found that FDA inspections of drug manufacturing facilities have increased since the COVID-19 health emergency but have not yet returned to pre-pandemic numbers.