ORLANDO – Healthcare Information Technology now enables Personal Health Information, or PHI, to be accessed immediately and directly by patients, but there are complex regulatory requirements around the sharing of patient data that affect all parties – physicians, payers and the patients themselves.
Anthem plans to rebrand with a new name, Elevance Health, provided the change is approved by shareholders, the insurer said this week. The new name is meant to underscore the company’s focus on “elevating” whole health, according to the announcement.
As President Biden promised in his State of the Union address, the Department of Justice has appointed a prosecutor for pandemic fraud. The DOJ on Thursday named Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement.
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Minority Health, will provide close to $35 million in funding toward strengthening and expanding mental health services and suicide prevention programs for children and young adults. Of the total, $9.2 million comes from the American […]
After a $150 million Series D funding round announced in December, Papa CEO and founder Andrew Parker has plans for the senior-care startup.
As a concept, Medicare Advantage isn’t new. Originally known as Medicare Plus Choice, it was passed with bipartisan support under the Clinton Administration with an eye toward giving seniors another option for receiving Medicare benefits. Flash forward to 2022, and the program has evolved into a full-blown force: Payers love it, patients report high satisfaction […]
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for Medicare to set higher standards for nursing homes. The most controversial is the president’s call for “sufficient” staffing.
Dr. Patrick J. Guffey, chief medical information officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, is on a mission to get rid of pagers. Most are not HIPAA compliant. There’s no link from pager to the EHR without manual transcription. It’s another device physicians have to carry in addition to their smartphones, Guffey said. But most physicians carry […]