Category: Modern Healthcare

One of the top issues at HIMSS19 this month was the need to rethink and broaden services provided to patients. Jacob Reider, former federal deputy national coordinator of health IT, has thoughts on how to do that.

Sutter Health is teaming up with Ada Health to offer its patients a symptom checker tool designed to help them decide whether they need to get care and where. It’s one of several partnerships between health systems and companies offering such tools.

More independent hospitals are joining systems as they endure despite lower admissions and higher operating costs.

Executives from seven major drugmakers, including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Merck & Co. and Pfizer are set to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on drug prices.

The American Hospital Association’s Hospital Community Cooperative seeks to learn better approaches to managing population health from providers that have spent years addressing such issues.

The Cleveland Heights 50+ Hockey League has a special rule: Each team needs at least one physician on its roster. But so far there haven’t been any serious injuries since the league — which doesn’t allow checking — started in 2013.

Policymakers and regulators have not fully considered the consequences of and public reaction to transforming short-term plans from a stop-gap measure to a substitute for more comprehensive plans provided through the Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, Parkland Health & Hospital’s executive vice president and chief strategy and integration officer, said technology has played an important role as it analyzed its community and ultimately decide to tackle breast cancer disparities.

UnitedHealth Group-owned Optum lost its legal fight Friday to block a former executive from working at Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase’s new healthcare cost-saving venture.

Republican governors defended their decisions to pursue Medicaid work requirements despite concerns about the loss of coverage.