Health insurer Humana is adding 14 states to its ongoing initiative to rebrand the home health division of Kindred at Home as CenterWell Home Health. KAH home health services have already begun transitioning to the CenterWell brand in a number of other states, with Phase 2 bringing the total up to 21 states overall.

Kyruus’s Scott Andrews and HealthSparq’s Harlan Edlin talk about improving patient engagement for organizations.

Calling the health systems rival competitors in Utah, the Federal Trade Commission has brought an administrative complaint and a lawsuit in federal court to block the proposed merger between HCA Healthcare and Steward Health Care System.  The agency said the deal would eliminate the second and fourth largest healthcare systems in the Wasatch Front region, […]

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, or Medicare Part A, which helps pay for services such as inpatient hospital care, will be able to pay scheduled benefits only until 2028, according to a new report from the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. While that’s two years later than was originally reported last […]

Cherish Health employs ambient sensing for remotely monitoring aging patients without cameras or wearables, explains Sumit Nagpal, the CEO and founder.

There is broad-based and bipartisan support for continuing telehealth flexibilities allowed during the pandemic, but so far Congressional action has been limited. Several bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate.

In another attempt to halt a healthcare merger, the Federal Trade Commission has sued to block the acquisition of Saint Peter’s Healthcare System by RWJBarnabas Health, one of New Jersey’s largest hospital systems.

In an effort to improve care for children with special healthcare needs, the Department of Health and Human Services has released “The Blueprint for Change: A National Framework for a System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” through a special supplement in the journal Pediatrics.

Five people are dead, including the gunman, in a shooting that took place at an orthopedic clinic on the campus of Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to numerous reports.  Two orthopedic surgeons, a medical office staffer and a patient were killed late Wednesday afternoon by a gunman who had been a patient of […]

The founder of Techmedo, Zahid Ali, says the pandemic has caused changemakers to rise to the occasion.