The year may be new, but the concerns about COVID-19 are old: A new study in JAMA shows that people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 perform worse on cognitive and neurological tests, suggesting impaired brain function.
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now live, but the challenge is FHIR in TEFCA, says Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth and former national coordinator for Health IT at HHS.
The Department of Justice wants Humana’s complaint against the Department of Health and Human Services thrown out, but it wants the decision made in a court other than the one where the case was filed.
Rite Aid Corporation has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission regarding the company’s use of AI facial recognition technology to prevent retail theft. Rite Aid said it disagrees with the allegations related to the facial recognition technology.
FDA regulatory attorney Brigid Bondoc, partner and life sciences attorney at Morrison Foerster, helps companies control their risk.
There’s no reason, if diseases are caught in their early stages, that most of us can’t live until our 90s, according to the Deloitte report, “How employers can spark a movement to live longer. healthier lives.”
The American Medical Association has said that its New Year’s resolution for Congress is to cancel the Medicare pay cut for physicians in 2024. The AMA strongly supports a bill introduced in Congress this month that would completely eliminate the 3.37% Medicare physician pay cut that’s scheduled to take effect on January 1.
The threat surface is increasing for bad actors, which makes organizations feel outgunned, says Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera.
In the coming year, more than half of Medicare’s 66 million beneficiaries may opt for private Medicare Advantage plans, a development likely to put further strain on an already overstretched healthcare system, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has teamed with local organizations to foster what it calls an inclusive workforce within the healthcare sector. The Disability Employment Awareness initiative provides individuals with developmental delays and cognitive differences with greater opportunities in the workforce, the health system said.