Category: Modern Healthcare

Molina Healthcare swung to a profit in the fourth quarter and full year 2018, after taking steps to slash medical and administrative costs.

Hospitals will have to identify and send patient notifications to their doctors if their EHR system is up to the task.

While Republican lawmakers insist trimming Medicare and Medicaid is the only way to rein in federal spending, researchers have found the programs have done a better job at controlling spending than private payers.

The Utah Legislature passed a bill to partially expand Medicaid, and that may encourage other states to seek similar scaled-back expansions with full federal funding.

Private equity firms Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital have closed on their $5.7 billion purchase of Athenahealth, which will be combined with Virence Health Technologies under the Athenahealth name and brand.

CMS released two long-awaited interoperability rules with new requirements for patient health data-sharing.

The Renton, Wash.-based integrated healthcare system acquired Lumedic, which aims to inject efficiency and interoperability into what are often archaic systems of collecting, analyzing and distributing claims and billing.

There’s growing interest in using empirically validated, mobile app-based therapeutic tools that allow providers to remotely offer therapy, skills training and support to their patients in between face-to-face visits.

The tool HHS Accelerate leverages blockchain technology to streamline the process that the federal agency uses to procure products and services from private vendors.

The latest and greatest health IT innovations will be on display among the nearly 1,200 vendors. Top level HHS officials, including Alex Azar, Seema Verma and Dr. Donald Rucker, are scheduled to speak.