The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare industry have been profound, resulting in shifting profit pools, spikes in innovation, and the creation of new business models, while diversification and vertical integration are likely to accelerate in the pandemic’s wake.

If the enhanced subsidies on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges were extended on a permanent basis, there would be just shy of 5 million new signups annually, according to a letter sent to the Senate Finance Committee by the Congressional Budget Office.

Dr. Joel Diamond of 2bPrecise talks about precision medicine moving into the mainstream, including pharmacogenomics in primary care and genetic insights for specialty care.  

The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the declaration on Saturday, the day after United States health officials said the Department of Health and Human Services is considering its own public health emergency for monkeypox.

Existing diabetes quality metrics do not currently help patients improve their health and diabetes quality measurement must be improved through the adoption of new measures and modernization, according to a June report published in Health Affairs.  

Increasingly, consumers are growing dissatisfied with their current digital experiences in healthcare, saying they would prefer a more seamless means of scheduling and interacting with their provider or health plan.  According to a new survey from UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum, providers and payers could improve patient satisfaction by offering tools such as a digital “front […]

Nirav Shah, MD, Medical Director of Quality Innovation for NorthShore University HealthSystem, explains the use of informatics and technology to fuel innovation for personalized remote care.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the first-ever home- and community-based services quality measure set to promote consistent quality measurement within and across state Medicaid home and community-based programs.  The measure set is intended to provide insight into the quality of HCBS programs and enable states to measure and improve health outcomes for […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on nonprofit hospitals, and without action to address upward pressure on their expenses, the hardships are likely to continue, according to a market update from Fitch Ratings.

Smile CDR CEO Duncan Weatherston explains how Smile, a FHIR-based enterprise data platform, helps researchers, payers and providers and manage data from various sources.