More than ever before, data drives the business of healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular brought statistics, data and analytics to the forefront, and the healthcare industry saw real scrutiny on the source of its data, as well as the collecti…
ORLANDO – The secret to living a healthier life is farily simple: eat more fruits and vegetables and less of what you shouldn’t eat, according to Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey, who spoke as the Executive Summit opening keynote at HIMSS22 in O…
ORLANDO – Healthcare Information Technology now enables Personal Health Information, or PHI, to be accessed immediately and directly by patients, but there are complex regulatory requirements around the sharing of patient data that affect all parties –…
Anthem plans to rebrand with a new name, Elevance Health, provided the change is approved by shareholders, the insurer said this week. The new name is meant to underscore the company’s focus on “elevating” whole health, according to the announcement.
As President Biden promised in his State of the Union address, the Department of Justice has appointed a prosecutor for pandemic fraud.
The DOJ on Thursday named Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcemen…
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Minority Health, will provide close to $35 million in funding toward strengthening and expanding mental health services…
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for Medicare to set higher standards for nursing homes.
The most controversial is the president’s call for “sufficient” staffing.
As a concept, Medicare Advantage isn’t new. Originally known as Medicare Plus Choice, it was passed with bipartisan support under the Clinton Administration with an eye toward giving seniors another option for receiving Medicare benefits. Flash forward…
Dr. Patrick J. Guffey, chief medical information officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, is on a mission to get rid of pagers.
Most are not HIPAA compliant. There’s no link from pager to the EHR without manual transcription. It’s another device physic…
A little over a month ago, Scripps Health made a plea to patients in San Diego: Be kind to healthcare workers. They’re exhausted, they’re burned out, and they increasingly have to deal with demeaning and verbally abusive comments from patients.
