Walgreens has announced the launch of its new Rx Savings Finder, a digital tool designed to help customers save money on prescription medications, with Chief Pharmacy Officer Rick Gates framing the move as partly a response to inflation. Rx Savings Finder finds free, third-party discount cards, providing patients with a more streamlined way to find […]
SMC achieved the Stage 6 HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity, according to Dr. Han Deok-Hyun, vice CMIO of the Office of Digital Transformation.
St. Luke’s Health System of Idaho and its health plan have partnered with TytoCare for virtual primary care at home. TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic devices and kits will be made available to St. Luke’s employees and St. Luke’s Health Plan members beginning in 2024. These virtual visits will be covered with a $0 copay. St. […]
In a strategic alliance, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company said it would be teaming with pricing technology company Expion Health in an effort to address the rising costs of specialty drugs. The idea is that the pricing capabilities of Cost Plus drugs will be integrated into Expion’s product suite. Expion Health CEO Karin Humphrey […]
Major insurers Humana and Cigna are exploring a possible merger that could exceed $60 billion in value, and would create a company worth about $140 billion based on each companies’ respective market value as of Wednesday morning.
Escalating reimbursement delays and declining cash reserves are placing hospitals and health systems across the nation in a precarious financial predicament, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions’ analysis of 1,300 hospitals.
The authority for public hospitals in Hong Kong is at an advanced stage of digitization, having achieved 358 out of 400 HIMSS Digital Indicators in 2021, according to chief system manager Eric Wong.
The federal government is distributing free COVID-19 tests to schools nationwide, as part of an effort to keep students safe and schools open.
The rule of thumb is to have a human make final decisions, have software highlight when AI is involved and provide monitoring for outcomes in the workflow, says Sumit Rana, EVP of R&D reports at Epic.
Ardent Health Services has been hit with a ransomware attack that has disrupted some of its clinical and financial operations, the Tennessee-based health system reported. Ardent said it took its network offline proactively, and suspended all access to its information technology applications, including corporate servers, Epic software, internet and clinical programs.