Hospitals

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Without a rapid shift away from fossil fuels, 1 in 12 hospitals will be totally or partially shut down by extreme weather events before the end of the century, according to a 2023 estimate from the Cross Dependency Initiative, a climate risk analysis firm.

In California, for instance, around half of all inpatient beds are less than a mile from a high fire-threat zone, and researchers have found the average distance between California wildfires and inpatient facilities is shrinking.

“For people who are tasked with prioritizing the use of limited resources within institutions, it makes sense to look at this issue and substantively engage with it because each year that we move forward, the risk is going up,” Caleb Dresser, a core faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), told Healthcare Brew.

C-CHANGE conducts research and translates evidence into actionable steps for decisionmakers like healthcare leaders.

We talked with Dresser about how, and why, health systems should prepare for climate change.

Read the full interview here.—CC

      

Sponsored By Thermo Fisher Scientific

When patients continue to struggle with managing their allergies, it’s time to try something new. ImmunoCAP™ Specific IgE testing with allergen components can help you more accurately diagnose and guide patients’ allergy management plans.

With ImmunoCAP Specific IgE testing, you can test from a selection of over 100 allergen components, including pets, peanuts, milk, eggs, tree nuts, wheat, sesame, and insect venom.

After you receive the results, the interpretation guides for allergen component test results provide you with clear guidance on how sensitization to allergen components can improve diagnosis and treatment.

This testing is available through most national, regional reference, and health system labs. Check out the lab ordering guide.

Tech

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There’s a new addition to a long list of partnerships between technology companies and healthcare companies.

Wegovy -maker Novo Nordisk announced on Aug. 10 it has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As part of this partnership, the two companies have created a joint drug development innovation hub in London. There, Novo’s R&D teams will work alongside AWS engineers, AI specialists, and applied scientists, “eliminating the gaps between scientific insight and technical execution,” according to an AWS press release.

“Partnering with AWS is about making AI a driver of innovation across Novo Nordisk,” Mike Doustdar, president and CEO of Novo Nordisk, said in a press release.

Get the deets on the partnership here.—CC

      

Direct care

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Dietary supplements are in. From vitamin D and fish oil all the way to creatine and colostrum, over 100,000 different supplement variations serve as the foundation for a $70 billion market in the United States alone.

A boom in the wellness industry since the pandemic has provided a lasting tailwind (it was worth $6.8 trillion in 2024, according to the Global Wellness Institute), and a favorable regulatory backdrop hasn’t hurt either. The FDA does not preapprove dietary supplements, which under the US Dietary Supplement and Education Act are categorized as foods rather than as pharmaceuticals, before they’re sold. As a result, most regulatory action takes place after products are already on the market.

More broadly, the trend toward holistic health and lifestyle choices has proven fertile ground for entrepreneurs, athletes, and innovators of all stripes. Enter IM8: Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Danny Yeung and soccer icon David Beckham, the daily nutrition drink powder has been on a tear, surpassing $108 million in annualized recurring revenue (ARR) just 11 months after launching late 2024.

Revenue Brew spoke with Yeung about how he’s using credibility and effective partnerships to ensure long-term growth.

Check out the full interview on Revenue Brew.—BS

      

Sponsored By Schneider Electric

There’s no cutting hospital corners. Hospitals can’t take shortcuts when it comes to keeping pace with modern expectations. Schneider Electric’s latest white paper provides a data-driven framework for facility modernization. It helps you reduce energy usage, achieve ROI, and much more. Read the full paper here.

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Francis Scialabba

Today’s top healthcare reads.

Stat: $835 million. That’s how much Universal Health Services, a health system based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, paid to acquire online therapy platform Talkspace (Healthcare Dive)

Quote: “I’m not aware of any other times that the federal government has prohibited federal funds in this way for a specific patient population with a particular diagnosis.”—Katie Keith, director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at Georgetown University, on the Trump administration banning Medicaid funds from being used for gender-affirming care in minors (NPR)

Read: As a Medi-Cal insurer terminates assisted living coverage, families struggle to find care for their loved ones. (CalMatters)

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Congress is still funding some health equity programs, but this op-ed argues that shrinking federal support is quietly pushing more of the cost and burden onto states and hospitals.

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