Category: Modern Healthcare

In North Dakota, around 50% of residents live in rural areas. As someone who represents a largely rural state, I recognize that these areas, across the country, face unique healthcare challenges due to their isolated locations.

Now that devices like blood pressure cuffs and scales are connected to the internet, patients can send their medical measurements directly to health systems, whose care teams monitor the patients’ well-being.

Outdated policy and a lack of political will is holding back the widespread deployment of telehealth. Barriers include insufficient federal funding for telehealth infrastructure, inconsistent licensing requirements, lack of broadband internet in…

Healthcare costs are too high. Families are grappling with double- and triple-digit increases in health insurance premiums and rising out-of-pocket expenses. A growing percentage of our nation’s gross domestic product is consumed by healthcare…

The Office of Management and Budget is taking a look at a proposed rule aiming to end the practice of data-blocking.

Advocates say the single biggest factor in expanding Medicaid in balky states has been the election of a governor who supports it.

The healthcare industry is using financial assistance programs, employee ownership models and partnering with academic institutions to cope with high turnover along with simultaneous labor shortages.

A Mississippi state senator has introduced a bill to expand Medicaid every year since Obamacare went into effect, but so far it’s been off the table. The 2019 governor’s race could change the picture.

Connected devices are a boon to patients but only if they’re impermeable to hackers.

An Apple Watch-based app captures patient-provider interactions and recommends billing codes. For some doctors, it shaves more than an hour of administrative work off their day.