As the United States closes in on a million deaths due to COVID-19, experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Tuesday weighed in on what’s next during “A New Phase of COVID-19: What Lies Ahead – from Surges to Long-Haulers.”
A shareholder at in-home healthcare service provider LHC Group, which UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum is set to acquire, is suing the latter and its board of directors over the proposed merger, court docu
The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on healthcare safety, released the spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade today, finding an overall decline in patient safety measures the report considers “significant.”
Denise Scannell, chief scientist of health communication at MITRE says that getting factual health information facts through people’s “mental filters” is nearly impossible.
Between 5.3 million and 14.2 million low-income people could lose Medicaid coverage following the end of the public health emergency, KFF researchers find in a
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded telehealth coverage to patients across the country, and new data published in H
In the last week of April, pediatric COVID-19 cases were up 61% from the period two weeks prior, according to data published by the American Academy of Physicians. Though coronavirus cases among children were still down from a peak of about 1.15 million during the height of the Omicron surge, the last week in April […]
The chief information security officer emphasizes that health systems need to build their defenses amid cyber risk from the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
BOSTON – At ATA2022, BlueJeans announced the next stage in its telehealth services offerings through a more personalized experience for providers and patients. Providers can now embed the telehealth function on their website rather than through an application, according to Krish Ramakrishnan, VP BlueJeans Strategy, Verizon Business.