Category: Modern Healthcare

Some innovative health insurers and states are addressing social determinants of health in a sustainable, scalable business model that goes beyond isolated pilot projects and community benefit dollars.

Wellsmith’s digital care management platform draws data from wearables and other at-home devices to give providers a new look at what patients are up to when they’re not in the hospital or clinic.

The “living room” concept aims to provide patients experiencing a psychiatric episode with a better environment to receive treatment than a hospital emergency department.

A bandage containing “smart” technology could theoretically monitor continuous healing over time, according to researchers at MIT.

Morris spent only a little over a month at the helm of the committee that’s overseeing the VA’s $16 billion Cerner EHR project.

Nebraska certified the state ballot initiative to include a vote on Medicaid expansion, the fourth state to do so after grassroots organizers mounted a major push this year.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden thas been arrested in New York on charges alleging he forcibly touched a woman in his Brooklyn home last October.

As the country heads toward midterm elections and red states look to overturn Obamacare in the courts, Repubilcan senators have introduced a bill to preserve some of the law’s most popular provisions.

Mission Health is planning to call bonds about a year after they were issued as part of its possible acquisition by HCA, leading to some sizable losses for investors.

Cook County Health & Hospitals System plans to boost spending by 5% next year, to $2.9 billion, while holding the line on taxpayer subsidies at $120 million.