FAST is the FHIR at Scale Task Force under HL7 that is looking at implementing guides around identity, consent, security, a national directory and testing how all those things come together, says Janice Reese, program manager of FAST.
WashU Medicine in St. Louis is turning a philanthropic gift of $50 million into a vehicle for recruiting neurosurgeons and researchers, and enhancing the research capabilities of the facility’s neurosurgery department. Andrew Taylor, an emeritus trustee of Washington University in St. Louis, and his wife, Barbara, made the donation after receiving care from WashU Medicine […]
Some Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 drugs available through Medicare Part B, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The drugs will have a lowered Part B coinsurance rate from January 1 through March 31 of next year; that’s because drug companies raised prices for each of the 64 drugs faster […]
The idea to start a company to make clinical research easier for physicians and more accessible to patients began while Alexander Saint-Amand was still in college. His mother, who was sick, hoped to get into a clinical trial, but there was limited access.
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but some healthcare provisions that were in the original bill didn’t make it to final passage. Acute hospital-care-at-home and telehealth temporary waivers were continued, but were not given the long-term extensions that were included in a Dec. 18 bipartisan resolution. Both […]
The search for revenue cycle management leaders is ongoing and can be particularly challenging because of the nature of the executives who take on the job, according to one expert. “These leaders often have a fix-it mentally,” according to Adam Burns, a principal at WittKieffer, an executive search firm for healthcare.
Chicago-based Advocate Health Care is planning to spend $1 billion to improve access to primary and specialty care, as well as wellness services, by investing in a new hospital and extended outpatient programs. The investment will improve access to primary and specialty care, as well as wellness services, the health system said.
Wealth and earnings disparities between men and women are nothing new, but a new report from Medscape shows the extent to which this is true in healthcare, showing that 66% of male physicians had a family net worth of more than $1 million last year – compared to just 50% of female physicians.
Because of lack of interoperability it takes weeks between the time of referral to treatment due to documentation gathering, says Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is terminating the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model at the end of 2025 due to what it called the model’s “substantial and unmitigable costs to the Medicare Trust Funds.”