Intermountain Healthcare has announced that this fall Dr. Marc Harrison will leave his post as the company’s president and CEO, a position he has held since 2016. Harrison has accepted a leadership position to run a healthcare platform business for American venture capital firm General Catalyst.

The guidance around COVID-19 continues to evolve, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now saying that isolation is no longer necessary for a person exposed to someone with the coronavirus. This applies to anyone, whether vaccinated or not.

Health insurance broker GoHealth has laid off 20% of its workforce after a rough financial second quarter, in which the company’s net loss increased nearly sixfold.

University of St. Gallen professor Alexander Geissler says interoperability is a major barrier and that some hospitals don’t have the desire or the ability to share data.    

A long-running $2.7 billion antitrust settlement against Blue Cross Blue Shield has been finalized in federal court. U.S. District Court Judge R. David Proctor in Alabama handed up the order on Tuesday, with the settlement to go into effect in 30 days.

UnitedHealth Group subsidiary UnitedHealthcare is donating $11 million in grants through its Empowering Health program across 11 states to expand access to care and address the social determinants of health, focusing on uninsured people in underserved communities.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for the JYNNEOS vaccine, allowing healthcare providers to use the vaccine by intradermal injection for those 18 and older who are at high risk for monkeypox infection. This will increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold, according […]

Sanofi SVP of key markets and general medicines Tarja Stenvall discusses why well-informed and engaged patients are essential and how less red tape can foster trust and turn into better patient engagement.  

Cerner has agreed to pay $1.8 million in back pay and interest after the U.S. Department of Labor claimed the healthcare and information technology company discriminated against hiring Black and Asian applicants from 2015 to 2019.

A meager 3% of Americans obtained health coverage through the Affordable Care Act exchange within one year of leaving Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to new findings published by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).