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CVS Health names Brian Kane president of Aetna
CVS Health has appointed Brian Kane to the post of executive vice president and president of Aetna, effective September 1. become a member of the company’s executive leadership team and report to CVS Health President and CEO Karen S. Lynch.
“Brian has …
HIMSS23: TEFCA positioned to advance interoperability
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is now live, and exchange partners are signing up. Hot on its heels come rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to prevent information blocking as required by the 21st…
HIMSS23: Interoperability requires modern, usable data
CHICAGO – Interoperability is about more than just having standards. Being able to exchange electronic health information between entities and individuals is all well and good, but the data needs to be modern and usable. Indeed, “data modernization” is…
HIMSS23: Health Data Utilities hold potential to advance interoperability
CHICAGO – Federal and state governments have made a number of investments in health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability infrastructure, exemplified by the ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement and Medicaid HITECH 90/10 Federal Financial Parti…
Most payers used outcomes-based contracting in 2022
More than half of payers, 58%, had at least one outcomes-based contract (OBC) in place during the 2022 plan year, and respondents to a new Avalere survey who are utilizing at least one OBC indicated oncology, cardiology, and endocrinology as the top th…
Most providers seeking to outsource patient financing
A majority of healthcare providers, 61%, say they anticipate making greater use of third-party patient financing over the next couple of years, a new survey shows.
CWH Advisors conducted 38 in-depth interviews in the fourth quarter of 2022 with executi…
Healthcare professionals not speaking to patients on gun safety
Just 5% of U.S. adults say a doctor or other healthcare professional has talked to them about gun safety, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report on Americans’ experiences with gun-related violence.
Former Outcome Health execs convicted in $1B corporate fraud scheme
A federal jury has convicted three former executives of Outcome Health, a Chicago-based health technology start-up company, for their roles in an alleged fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors and involved roughly $1 bi…
Labor picture improving for hospitals, nursing homes, according to Fitch
More rays of light are emerging for U.S. nonprofit hospitals on the labor front, according to the latest from Fitch Ratings, with hospital and ambulatory healthcare services payrolls having risen for 14 and 26 consecutive months, respectively, as of Ma…
Healthcare websites are being attacked with fake requests
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to healthcare organizations, saying a flood of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks could shut down their websites.
