Hospitals and health systems are making headway when it comes to preventing infections, combating workplace violence and protecting the safety of patients, but according to a new American Hospital Association report, there’s still work to be done.
Artificial intelligence is data hungry, and interoperability is about putting data to work, says Marilee Benson, president and cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT.
Eversana, which provides services for the life sciences industry, is working with Digital Therapeutics Alliance to analyze different reimbursement frameworks in Europe, says Alberta Spreafico, senior vice president of health innovation at Eversana.
U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Angus King (I-Me.) have introduced legislation intended to reduce the relentless amount of cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry. The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act was conceived after a ransomware attack on the health payment platform Change Healthcare, which senators said highlighted a lack of preparation and training during […]
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine was sentenced to three and a half years in prison this week for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with unnecessary lab testing, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said that Oxendine conspired with Dr. Jeffrey Gallups and others to submit fraudulent […]
UnitedHealth Group rebounded from a challenging first quarter to post a $4.2 billion profit in Q2, logging revenues of $98.9 billion. That’s quite a turnaround from Q1, during which the insurer reported a $1.4 billion loss. That was largely due to the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare, as well as a divestiture of its Brazilian […]
Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems occurred at a slower clip in the second quarter as compared to Q1, but a trend did emerge: While there were a few “mega mergers” in the quarter – transactions in which the smaller party has annual revenues of $1 billion or more – the tendency was […]
An AI prescribing tool does more than notify clinicians as it directly corrects the prescription if it detects a drug interaction and suggests prescription alternatives, says Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS.
A radioactive tracer is able to go through the bloodstream to take images for diagnosis and can travel to abnormal places in the body where masses and tumors can hide, says Heidi Veltman, VP & COO of Kaiser Permanente Georgia.
Cityblock, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid and dually eligible beneficiaries, is entering into a partnership with Alliance Health, a managed care organization responsible for 137,000 Medicaid-eligible members across North Carolina.