Edifecs, founded in 1996, focuses on interoperability and automation in workflows. Over the last 20 years, the healthcare industry has seen 90 to 95% automation, saving avoidable costs of about $150 billion, according to CEO Venkat Kavarthapu.
What’s n…
Rob MacNaughton has been named new chief executive officer of Calibrate, a clinician-guided, value-based obesity treatment program, and one of his first missions will be to solidify a relationship with Optum Rx as a strategic partner during the company…
Vaccinations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an upper respiratory virus that typically thrives in colder weather, may soon extend to adults in their 50s thanks to a priority review granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Rising Medicare Advantage utilization among older U.S. adults, as well as rate cuts for 2025, are likely to be credit-neutral to the healthcare industry, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed former CVS executive Mary Langowski as executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare.
Langowski replaces current executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare, John Driscoll, who will transiti…
The Administration for Community Living has released a final rule that updates regulations for implementing its Older Americans Act (OAA) programs for the first time since 1988, aiming to better support the national aging network that delivers OAA serv…
Telehealth utilization increased nationally and in every U.S. census region in November 2023, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. The widespread increases followed a month of varied changes in October.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is leveraging new legal authority proposed in the President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, issuing requests for proposals in advance of executing multiple different contract awards meant to increase co…
Amazon is reportedly cutting over 100 jobs at One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, according to a letter to employees from Amazon Healthcare Services executive Neil Lindsay.
Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state.
But it’s the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers from throughout the state – Medicare, Medicaid, and co…
