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.

Due to what it called unprecedented net operating losses, Providence, the not-for-profit Catholic health system serving seven states in the western U.S., is grouping its existing seven regional senior leadership teams into three divisional teams. The new operating model calls for a leaner executive team, according to Providence, which did not specify the number of […]

Adding to the hardship on victims and their families, gun violence injuries in the U.S. cost more than $1 billion each year in initial direct medical costs alone, a federal committee has found.

The administration made a push to expand healthcare coverage for young people this week when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, awarded $49 million to organizations trying to reduce uninsured rates among children, parents and families.

Access to data can offer improved patient journeys, according to Hassan Chaudhury, interim commercial director for the U.K.’s Health Data Research Hub for Cancer.  

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is funding a clinical trial initiative to enhance diversity, which has been an ongoing problem in the development of new drugs. The initial $10 million grant will fund an 18-month pilot at ten community sites located in the southern United States.