The American Medical Association is thanking the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) for acknowledging during its meeting on Thursday what it called the growing gap between the costs of practicing medicine and what Medicare pays. 

BOSTON – The issue with cybersecurity from a clinical point of view is that physicians and nurses just want things to work. They often want cybersecurity to be bolted on to make patient information secure, according to experts speaking during the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum this week.

Upwards of 18 million people could lose Medicaid coverage, and four million people could become uninsured entirely when the COVID-19 public health emergency expires next year, according to a recently published analysis from the Urban Institute. This could result in the biggest changes in coverage since the Affordable Care Act was implemented more than a decade ago, […]

The American Hospital Association has released

Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, says that manual methods for coordinating and verifying points in a patient’s clinical journey cause provider burnout.  

Pfizer and Clear Creek Bio, a biotech startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have partnered to develop a new COVID-19 treatment they hope will provide greater efficacy as the virus evolves and proves increasingly resistant to current treatments.

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, part of Cigna’s Evernorth subsidiary, will be adding Humira biosimilars to its formulary in 2023 as preferred products, which will be available to patients with inflammatory conditions.

Dr. Dhesi Raja, vice chair of the Board of Advisory at HIMSS APAC, says it is important for the region’s hospitals to envision the goal for AI in healthcare and adopt systemic changes enabling population health management.  

In a newly proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is changing prior authorization standards to speed up the time it takes for payers to approve the requests and is implementing HL7 FHIR standards to support an electronic process. CMS is proposing to require certain payers, including Medicare Advantage organizations, to implement electronic […]

BOSTON – The question that arises when the topic of risk quantification comes up in healthcare is, “How much is it going to cost me?” said Jack Lewin, speaking during the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum in Boston.  “How do we value the healthcare data we’re trying to protect here?” asked Lewin, founder and principal of […]