The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization introduced a significant amount of confusion into the healthcare industry. The decision, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and left it up to states to determine their r…
CHICAGO – About half of the population in the country live in areas that have a lack of access to behavioral healthcare, said Taft Parsons III, vice president and chief psychiatric officer, CVS Health.
Dr. Zenobia Brown agreed that access for behavior …
CHICAGO – Interoperability is frequently touted as a means of ensuring the exchange of important health information between healthcare entities, but it turns out that achieving this long sought-after goal may also be a means of advancing health equity,…
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 …
CHICAGO – The Philips Future Health Index 2023 global report released at HIMSS23 today shows healthcare leaders are focused on addressing staffing shortages and stepping up planned AI investments.
The investments are to get critical decision support an…
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…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule that limits non-standardized plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
CHICAGO – As much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, according to healthcare IT experts.
Eighty percent of data is in unstructured text, said John Halamaka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, speaking with other IT experts at the HIMSS23 Executive S…
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…
CHICAGO – To kick-off the HIMSS23 Executive Summit on Monday morning, HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf told a ballroom of C-suite leaders that healthcare is no longer happening inside the four walls of a hospital.
