HIMSS mission is more about people than technology and its vision and mentors have helped her grow, says 2025 Changemaker Award recipient Surya Shenoy, regional clinical informatics consultant at Kaiser Permanente.
UVA Health Children’s in Charlottesville, Virginia is expanding its neonatal intensive care unit, nearly doubling the number of beds due to a rising need for newborn care in the area.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay up to $350 million to resolve allegations that its pharmacies filled millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. The Department of Justice claims that Walgreens sought payment for invalid prescriptions through Medicare and other federal healthcare programs in violation of the False Claims Act.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a bill barring pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate drug prices and cut off access to critical medications.
Immunization Information Systems, or immunization registries, are located in every state and in many large cities to collect individuals’ vaccine records to consolidate them in one location, says Rebecca Coyle, executive director of the American Immunization Registry Association.
Technology, governance and going outside the typical channels to democratize data, is necessary to unleash more than the 5-10% of data that is accessed today, says Bruno Lempernesse, MDClone’s president.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has advanced legislation that would seek to bar pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, claiming that PBMs are taking advantage of lax regulations. According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of this lax environment to inflate drug prices and cut off access to critical medications.
Despite elevated medical costs, Elevance Health managed to perform more or less in line with expectations in the first quarter, bringing in $2.2 billion in profit, a slight decrease from the $2.25 billion in profit reported in Q1 2024. Revenue was up year-over-year, hitting $48.9 billion in Q1, a 15% jump as compared to $42.6 […]
Called “Advancing AI Driven Digital Health Transformation in the Middle East,” the event is designed to highlight the momentum in the region that’s becoming a test bed for scalable, responsible AI solutions, says Dr. Tamara Sunbul, chair of HIMSS Middle East Community and a digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor.
Prospect Medical Holdings has filed a motion to close Crozer Health and all of the outpatient facilities licensed with the Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a bankruptcy update from Delaware County Pennsylvania.