Many organizations are finding the rush to implement EHRs years ago may have been short-sighted or premature, discovering their electronic data is siloed and largely inaccessible for any meaningful population health management (PHM) analysis.
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic agreed to work directly with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to decide what emerging technology BCBSM will cover.
The Trump administration's environmental policies are likely to increase rates of disease and death over the next decade, according to Harvard scientists David Cutler, PhD, and Francesca Dominici, PhD.
Anthem closed its acquisition of the nation's largest provider of palliative care services for an undisclosed amount.
Quest Analytics, a provider of network access services to health plans and insurance regulators, acquired provider data management platform BetterDoctor June 18.
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Aledade, which partners with primary care physicians to establish ACOs, partnered with data and analytics provider Emtiro Health to create an independent provider-led ACO in North Carolina.
The World Health Organization on June 18 included "Gaming Disorder" in a draft of the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases, causing many healthcare leaders to question whether the U.S. healthcare system is ready to treat patients with…
Medicaid payments are increasingly becoming state budget busters as the program covers frequent emergency room admissions and outpatient tests, according to Kaiser Health News.
Patients are healthcare consumers and are making more informed health care decisions. It is becoming increasingly more cost-effective for healthcare providers to retain patients than spend resources on new patient acquisition. In fact, according to The Advisory Board Company 2015…
More than one-third of adults in the U.S. are using prescription drugs tied to an increased risk of depression, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.