Oklahoma Heart Hospital, a two-hospital physician-owned cardiovascular system, went all digital in 2002 to focus on workflow, not paper shuffling, says CIO David Miles.
Among those who were insured all year in 2023, almost a quarter (23%) were underinsured, meaning they had coverage for a full year that didn’t provide them with affordable access to healthcare, according to a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
Dominant health insurers in most metropolitan areas across the U.S.
Aegis Ventures is welcoming two new health system partners, UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health, into its digital consortium, a strategic alliance of nine systems that was announced earlier this year.
TV celebrity, cardiothoracic surgeon and former Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz is president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Artificial intelligence makes efficient use of a massive amount of data, but it can also create deep fake technology, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor of radiology at the University of Montreal.
Orthopedic providers have filed a lawsuit against Elevance, UnitedHealthcare and other insurers alleging they entered a multibillion-dollar price-fixing scheme with MultiPlan. The complaint claims the scheme was aimed at suppressing payment rates to doctors for out-of-network services. The complaint, filed Monday in federal court in Illinois, requests class action status, a jury trial, a determination that […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached an agreement with the State of Illinois Department of Human Services to enforce federal disability rights laws after a complaint alleged that a person with disabilities was unjustly institutionalized.
New York State is mandating more stringent cybersecurity processes. Other states and the federal government may soon release similar regulations, says George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is expanding access to its women’s health offerings, with new services and care options that include a new doula program that’s part of an expanded partnership.