Author: Ilana Jacqueline

BIG NEWS in GLP-1 & Medicare! Worth watching how this actually lands for patients. A coverage pathway that runs through retrospective prior authorization still puts the documentation burden on the clinician and the uncertainty on the patient — you don’t know if you’re covered until after you’re prescribed. Access on…

Behind every dose is a donor. I’ll never know the names of the strangers whose plasma keeps me alive — but this is for them, and for every patient who depends on a plasma-derived medicine. There’s a first-of-its-kind global survey asking what we actually know about where our medicine comes…

There is no shortage of opinions about AI in healthcare. There’s the hype — AI will diagnose us all and fix a broken system. And there’s the backlash — it hallucinates, it’s dangerous, keep it away from medicine. What I couldn’t find anywhere was the voice in the middle: the…

If you’re a medical malpractice attorney, your competition isn’t other firms. It’s the silence. Every day, patients who were genuinely harmed decide not to call anyone. Not because they don’t have a case — but because they don’t know they have one. Because they assume every lawyer is a shark.…

There’s nothing my husband and I love more than being home. Before anything social, we bargain with each other like hostages. “What if I said my car broke down?” “What if we suddenly came down with a terrible head cold?” “Do I really have to go?” And every time, we…

Somewhere right now, a mother is draining her retirement account trying to figure out why her child is in pain. That is the market. I know because I’ve lived adjacent to it for years. In my twenties, I participated in clinical genetic research. Not the glossy influencer version of “genetic…

Disclaimer: This guide is not sponsored, not commissioned, and I don’t sell Aflac policies. I’m simply a patient who has personally benefited from them—and I think more patients should know this option exists. My Personal Story (a.k.a. Why I’ll Never Skip Aflac Again) When I was a kid, hospital stays…

I want to tell you the story of two patients. The first is your spouse. The healthy one. The one who sees a doctor once a year for psoriatic arthritis, has been on the same medication for a decade, and has never once logged into MyChart. Not to book an…

Move fast and break things– until the patient is the thing. Faster builds.Faster launches.Faster claims. AI has taken healthcare from 0 to 100 almost overnight.And honestly? It’s impressive. But there’s something I keep seeing over and over again: The faster the build…the faster the apology. “We didn’t mean it like…