Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is headed to Intravacc and Mount Sinai to help those organizations improve healthcare in the United States. Using nearly $15 million in grant money,...
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restore full payments to hospitals and reverse its cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program. HHS,...
Amazon’s foray into primary care may be under threat after the FTC declared it was investigating the company’s acquisition of One Medical. Officials at the agency also decided to sue data...
A data set released by the VA recorded 498 major incidents and 930 hours of disruptions with the Oracle Cerner EHR implementation since 2020. The latest data is another blow to the VA’s...
Oracle, the owner of Cerner, went before Congress to comment on the state of the VA EHR implementation which has been delayed, error-filled, and over budget. An executive for the company explained that...
Connected health technology is making inroads in the State of California as officials there prepare to release the framework for their new statewide health information exchange (HIE) database in July....
This week, in Orlando, FL, senior executives from healthcare providers and payer organizations are sharing their technology accomplishments and new product developments.
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf opened the conference Tuesday by highlighting the...
According to a new study, Black Americans saw an 8-percent reduction in the uninsured rate since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. This reduction reduced the total uninsured...
Updated 2/28/22: This article has been updated to include the correct position for Jon Kammerzelt. A previous version cited Kammerzelt's position as "chair of the Health and Life Sciences...
Legislators have been active recently, introducing two new bills to modernize healthcare. One bill seeks to modernize HIPAA and data privacy in the industry, while the other seeks to extend telehealth...
Last week, a bipartisan group of Congress members issued a letter to the White House urging an investigation into price gouging occurring among nurse staffing agencies. Congress also sent another...
Staffing issues at skilled nursing facilities are threatening patient health and the industry’s future. Hundreds of thousands of employees have left jobs in nursing homes, and shortages may be intensified by a Centers for Medicare...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have convened to issue a cybersecurity advisory for major...
This week, CMS announced a new rule requiring commercial insurance groups to cover the cost of coronavirus tests for their members. Insured Americans will now qualify for eight free tests per...
CMS has issued a revised COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The new mandate requires that healthcare workers in 25 states be vaccinated by the end of February 2022.
In a series of...
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in Apache’s Log4j software library are threatening healthcare systems that rely on the technology. HHS is addressing the issue with new guidance and warnings....
The VA has initiated a research fellowship with the Regenstrief Institute of Indiana to advance health systems and train new fellows in the fields of health services research, implementation science,...
Surprise billing is a burden on patients and healthcare stakeholders alike, but the healthcare industry has had difficulty confronting this problem due to a lack of uniformity.
“Surprise billing...
Senators have introduced an act that would dole out the rest of the Provider Relief Fund to front-line hospitals and care centers. Another bill, CURES 2.0, would expand the actions of the initial CURES...
The largest hospital networks are failing to comply with the Price Transparency Rule two years into its implementation. A review conducted by Insights at Xtelligent Media found that hospitals from five of the largest health networks were...
