Healthcare and Insurance
Health IT giant Cerner plans to acquire the health division of London-based Kantar Group for $375 million. The buy is expected to advance clinical research development. Kantar Health provides data, analytics, and research to the life sciences industry. With this acquisition,…
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BioNexus KC is awarding $200,000 in regional grants to promote the One Health initiative, which aims to foster animal and human health innovation. Four researchers each will receive a $50,000 grant. The funding is part of a $750,000 grant that…
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The Kansas City VA Medical Center will not be receiving any COVID-19 vaccines during the first round of shipments. Now, local VA hospital workers and patients will have to wait weeks before the facility expects to receive its first doses.…
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The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine is taking a step to help ease the burden of rural physician shortages in Missouri. In a Wednesday news conference hosted by UMKC, the University made an announcement that it will expand…
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Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration endorsed the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna as safe and efficacious on Tuesday. The statement arrives just a day after the first doses of a competing vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech were delivered…
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When the dust settles from the public-health storm of 2020, the one aspect of health care that could produce the most significant, lasting change for providers, insurers, employers and patients might well be advances in telemedicine. Across the nation—the developed…
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The global pandemic and its associated economic downturn, combined with the most visible civil rights and equality discussions since the days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., knocked health care from the throne as voters’ most important issue. However, health…
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The past weekend ended on a positive note for healthcare workers at The University of Kansas Health System, though Tuesday numbers added to the COVID-19 patient count. During a Monday COVID-19 media briefing, the hospital officials announced that from Friday…
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The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kansas City on Monday morning. Officials with Truman Medical Centers and University Health said the first shipment of vaccine arrived Monday morning, and officials are now in the process of…
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In a University of Kansas Health System daily COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven Stites said that a potential Thanksgiving “surge” in cases may not be evident for another two weeks. As of Thursday. KU Health was…
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