LAS VEGAS – Artificial Intelligence in healthcare comes with a lot of hype, but there’s also a lot of concern – about how it can be used to attack, and how it can be abused.
Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks, said at HIMSS25 in Las…
Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity affiliated with Sycamore Partners in a deal valued at $23.7 billion.
Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm specializing in retail, consum…
As a deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, Jennifer Pahlka brought Silicon Valley talent to Washington to streamline public access to government services. She believes better government technology could both ensure taxpayer dollars aren’t wasted and that people who need health care and food assistance receive it.
As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money laundering” and “discrimination” to make their case. Language experts and Medicaid advocates say their word choice is misleading and designed to sway the public against the popular program.
The Supreme Court opined for the first time that Trump administration officials may be exceeding their authority to reshape the federal government by refusing to honor completed contracts, even as lower-court judges started blocking efforts to fire workers, freeze funding, and cancel ongoing contracts. Meanwhile, public health officials are alarmed at the Department of Health and Human Services’ public handling of Texas’ widening measles outbreak, particularly the secretary’s less-than-full endorsement of vaccines. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Stephanie Armour of KFF Health News join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
At a town hall in Orange County, California, angry residents said Congress should keep its hands off Medicaid. The cuts contemplated in a House budget blueprint would bore a giant hole in California’s version of the safety net health insurance program, Medi-Cal, which covers nearly 15 million residents.
LAS VEGAS – The new Emerge Innovation Experience that debuted at HIMSS25 here featured speakers from health systems who talked about the importance of finding the right business partner.
“A good partner is one who wants to be part of your team, has ski…
LAS VEGAS – Republicans are expected to release the text of a spending bill as soon as this weekend, ahead of a March 14 deadline, according to Politico.
The stopgap measure would avoid a government shutdown.
A budget blueprint calls for $880 billion i…
LAS VEGAS – HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf addressed funding cuts for medical research during a press conference at HIMSS25 here on Tuesday.
“I think we’re at the beginning of a very shaky period,” Wolf said. “I think that we’re all concerned.”
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LAS VEGAS – The Commonwealth of Kentucky saw a need: Foster children often have complex health needs, and in order to more effectively address them, it established the Health Information Data Sharing (KHIDS) initiative, an effort that seeks to ameliora…
