The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is ending accelerated payments to providers and suppliers that were affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. CMS has announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on July 12. The payment disruption program addressed Medicare funding issues, […]

Israel has been in the game longer because it became fully electronic in the mid-90s, says Ran Balicer, HIMSS board of directors member.  

Healthcare providers can expect supply chain disruptions during the current hurricane season – which runs from June through November – and the Food and Drug Administration is advising them to make the necessary preparations.

In traditional FFS, clinicians see one patient, but in value-based care, the provider is responsible for a population of patients and needs to know where else they have received care, which brings in the necessity for interoperability, says Dr. Harm Scherpbier, HealthShare Exchange CMIO.  

Surescripts is in the process of being designated a Qualified Health Information Network under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), according to the company’s director of product marketing Terry Douglas. Surescripts will be designated by the Office of the National Coordinator to be a hub of data exchange. It will serve as a […]

Physician and medical student leaders at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates have approved policies aimed at fighting for greater insurer accountability and transparency regarding prior authorization requirements – issues which the AMA said are denying necessary care for patients and adding administrative burdens for physicians.

AI is not meant to replace doctors, but offers augmented intelligence to make physicians more successful, more accurate and faster, says Mount Sinai’s CMIO Dr. Bruce Darrow.  

Digital therapeutics can engage patients differently through wearables and telemetry and collect data, which is valuable to pharmaceutical R&D and patient engagement, says Aaron Gani, founder and CEO of RealizedCare.  

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is setting aside up to $500 million in Project NextGen funding to plan and execute multiple Phase 2b clinical trials evaluating novel vaccines administered as a nasal spray or as a pill to protect against symptomatic COVID-19. BARDA is part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and […]

Anshul Rathi, founder and CEO of CertifyOS is an engineer by background who became one of Oscar Health’s earliest employees, working to build their provider network management function. This is for payers, who are responsible for supplying members with the directories of providers within their network and also doing thorough background checks.   “That’s where I […]