There’s a lot of hype and hope about what ChatGPT and other tools can do, says Dr. Srinivasan Suresh, VP, CIO and CMIO at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Health insurer Florida Blue has teamed with Sanitas Medical Center in opening a primary care health center in Jacksonville focused on supporting the area’s Florida Blue members who are over 50, as well as Medicare members of all ages. Sanitas and Florida Blue have collaborated to provide primary care since 2015, but the Jacksonville location […]
The American Hospital Association, along with five other national hospital associations, is urging the U.S.
Medicare Advantage is facing challenging times.
FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) gives a level of interoperability that can’t be met any other way and takes in groups such as payers that have yet to fully participate, says ONC National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.
During the first nine months of 2023, the No Surprises Act (NSA) protected Americans from more than 10 million surprise medical bills, according to a new survey by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Digital transformation in the payer industry means moving beyond the status quo. Insurance and the ways payers interact with members, especially new members in the enrollment process, are ripe for technology upgrades, according to Gary Davis, national practice leader for Noyo, a software company that unveiled an enrollment solution last year.
CDS Hooks is a standard for web service that uses FHIR to represent the patient data, but it also has a standard to provide clinical decision support recommendations, says Dr. Howard Strasberg, vice president of medical informatics at Wolters Kluwer, who with Robert Jenders, professor of Medicine at UCLA will be speaking at HIMSS24.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation announced yesterday that it has completed the sale of three of its hospitals in South Carolina to Novant Health for approximately $2.4 billion. It has also entered into a definitive agreement with UCI Health for the sale of four Tenet hospitals and related operations in Orange County and Los Angeles County, California […]
While Medicare Advantage remains attractive to the healthcare industry due to strong growth, high revenue and earnings per member, profitability is on the decline, according to a new analysis by Moody’s Investor Service.