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Children's Hospital Los Angeles leverages Apple Watch and new app to collect pediatric sleep data

1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is launching an effort to collect high-quality sleep data from children to ultimately allow for easier at-home detection of high-risk sleep disorders using Apple Watch. Pediatric sleep study beds are in short supply across the country, CHLA said, which limits the amount of data researchers can access on pediatric sleep disorders.
Managing diabetes with cultural foods

1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Ayla Ellison |Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

About 1 in 10 people have diabetes, and 1 in 5 don’t even know they have it. Preventing and managing diabetes is only possible when you know where to start. Yumlish provides nutrition literacy to Medicaid and Medicare populations in a culturally diverse way. This week on "Podnosis," Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya speaks with Yumlish founder and CEO Shireen Abdullah about the outcomes Yumlish is seeing and how federal budget cuts risk making diabetes prevalence worse.
NIH to back RFK Jr. autism research campaign with comprehensive data resource from patients' medical records

1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin work on a comprehensive federal database of patient records to study autism and chronic disease, Director Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., announced Monday. The commitment gives legs to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s calls to find the root cause of childhood autism, which he calls an epidemic.
Medicaid on the brink? Perspectives from 23 healthcare voices as cuts loom

1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Noah Tong

Congressional Republicans recently passed a budget resolution that calls for the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reduce $880 billion in spending over 10 years, setting the stage for a messy battle over healthcare funds later this summer. The Congressional Budget Office confirmed Medicaid spending must be reduced significantly if the proposed levels outlined in the budget resolution are met.
Legal experts agree the government should feel confident leaving oral arguments for a case deciding the fate of cost-free preven

3 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Noah Tong

Following oral arguments Monday, legal onlookers are giving the edge to the federal government in a lawsuit against employer Braidwood Management as the company tries to overturn a provision requiring private insurers to cover certain cost-free preventive services through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace or in employer-based coverage. Oral arguments give insight into how Supreme Court justices are viewing a case, sometimes previewing the lawsuit’s eventual outcome.
Gen AI chatbot effectively treats depression, anxiety, eating disorders: study

3 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

A recent study out of Dartmouth found that the use of a generative artificial intelligence mental health chatbot decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety and eating disorders in the first randomized controlled trial of its kind. The study demonstrates potential for the gen AI chatbots as a safe therapeutic intervention for mental health conditions, the study authors said.
Health Tech Roundup—Leidos invests $10M in AI disease detection with Pitt; Surescripts receives QHIN status

3 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

Leidos invests in Pitt AI initiativeLeidos inked a $10 million investment and five-year collaboration to enhance the Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Together, the company and the university will seek to develop artificial-intelligence-powered tools to detect and manage diseases like cancer and heart disease. Leidos hopes to shorten time to diagnosis to improve outcomes for patients.
Trump imposes Schedule F to more easily remove federal workers

6 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Noah Tong

President Donald Trump and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are moving forward with “Schedule F,” a policy to make it easier to remove workers from federal agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Fierce Healthcare has confirmed. Implementing Schedule F will deprive 50,000 federal employees of civil service protections by classifying them as “at-will” workers.
DOGE slow-walks healthcare grants, takes over internal clearinghouse: Washington Post

6 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Noah Tong

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative called “Defend the Spend” has frozen healthcare grants to the tune of billions of dollars, The Washington Post is reporting. These grants are forcing government officials to individually approve each grant award to thousands of organizations relying on the funds. The effort is part of a broader push from the Trump administration to rein in spending and unilaterally cancel grants and contracts.
AMGA, Wilmington Health launch value-based care learning network

1 week ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

The American Medical Group Association has teamed up with Wilmington Health to establish a new value-based care peer learning network. The AMGA Value Care Network, available to the association's members, will support organizations pursuing ACO excellence. The initiative will offer peer-peer learning opportunities, tools and frameworks to implement value-based care initiatives, leveraging the operational expertise of Wilmington as an enabler.