In-home primary care differs from traditional home healthcare and it can play a unique role in ensuring quality of care and access to care at a low cost for patients, according to Chris Dodd, MD, chief...
FDA and FBI officials are sharing their cybersecurity knowledge as the pace of healthcare cyberattacks picks up.
From the FDA, an urgent message issued a warning to organizations that may be...
As the digital health transformation progresses, stakeholders are looking to well-established data standards to support health information exchange (HIE) for care coordination.
Holly Miller, MD, chief...
Two pieces of proposed legislation are seeking to modernize healthcare IT infrastructure in the US. One such bill introduced by four senators would expand telehealth access and reduce regulations that...
As the national healthcare industry works to address social determinants of health, rideshare companies like Lyft and its medical offshoot Lyft Healthcare assert how they can fill not just...
Montana’s governor plans to utilize federal and private funds to increase access to a statewide HIE system. The effort is considered a critical investment for the largely rural state. Also, in...
The American Hospital Association lead a cohort of five industry organizations to call for 340B drug pricing enforcement, as two US Courts of Appeals heart cases on the matter.
Elsewhere in the...
Despite a surge in virtual care utilization, virtual care access remains challenging for many individuals across the US, particularly due to cultural and geographic barriers.
Adam Hornung, executive...
Cerner’s endeavor to modernize the VA EHR system has experienced several speed bumps since its first site implementation in 2020. The most recent issues with the EHR program forced Cerner to...
A new tool is coming to market to improve the early detection of Alzheimer's disease by testing cerebral spinal fluid.
FDA Greenlights First In-Vitro Alzheimer’s Disease Test
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Precision medicine and pharmacogenomics are on the rise and could unlock solutions for many of the perennial challenges in healthcare, but these fields demand a coordinated effort between payers,...
The FDA is promoting the use of an antiviral, Remdesivir, to treat COVID-19-infected infants after the drug was shown to be effective in a small clinical trial.
Meanwhile, HHS asked a federal appeals...
The value-based care approach to chronic disease management relies on a committed clinical workforce, healthcare organizations have indicated.
Hayden Schmidt, assistant editorial researcher at...
Last week, FDA officials continued their campaign against flavored nicotine products with a proposed ban on cigarettes and cigars containing added flavors.
And on the cybersecurity front, the FBI has...
The Medicare Advantage program has proven quite lucrative for commercial health plans over the years, but a federal agency is calling into question whether certain business practices are leading to...
The Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative has had a major impact on cybersecurity in healthcare since the US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched it in October 2021.
Spurred to action by an influx of...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced two different funding initiatives to improve healthcare nationwide. The first, $90 million, will support data analysis at community health...
Pinch-hitting for Kyle today as the Indian Health Services outlines its plans for an EHR modernization project it says will support interoperability in an advancing health IT landscape. The address...
Healthcare is staring down a clinician workforce and staffing crisis, a problem only exacerbated by its own gender equity issues. Prominently, women are leaving the medical workforce in droves, but...
The tides appear to be changing with regard to healthcare mergers and acquisitions in both federal courts and the court of public opinion.
Interoperability Holding Back Healthcare Digital...
