Mergers and acquisitions helped grow revenue but it’s taking health systems longer to realize expected synergies.
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Study finds racial bias in Optum algorithm
Optum calls the study’s conclusions “misleading” as health systems use many data elements other than cost to select patients for clinical engagement.
Amazon makes its second digital health acquisition with Health Navigator
The five-year-old Illinois company offers digital health content middleware in the form of APIs used by Microsoft, MDLive and others.
OCR imposes a $2.15 million civil penalty against Jackson Health System for alleged HIPAA violations
Two JHS employees allegedly accessed patient information without a clear job-related purpose.
Ownership of data is a heated debate
By law, patients own their own data, but access and understanding what’s in the record is not user friendly.
Flat or declining patient volumes is top revenue concern, new survey shows
Hospitals should obtain more valuable data insights, set performance improvement goals and better engaging physicians, finds Kaufman Hall.
One-fifth of patients are prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery
Prescription opioids are a major contributor to the opioid epidemic and are linked to prescription opioid abuse, addiction and overdose deaths.
Improvements needed across outpatient and ambulatory surgery settings, Leapfrog report shows
Among the gaps for both types of facilities are a lack of best practices for patient care and inadequate monitoring of board certifications.
ACA premiums are down 4% and more insurers are in market for 2020
President Trump, who was supposedly trying to sabotage the ACA, has been better at running it than President Obama, who wrote the law, says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
Humana charges Teva, 36 other pharma companies, with generic price fixing
Their modus operandi was to avoid competition that would normally result in significant price erosion and savings for purchasers, particularly insurers like Humana, the lawsuit said.
