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Cybersecurity, privacy top healthcare leader concerns
The share of hospitals with a senior information security officer rose 14% during the past year, according to the new HIMSS survey.
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HIMSS19: Lyft could move into food delivery as part of population health focus
The strategy would expand the car-hailing firm's focus on addressing social determinants of health from just transportation to include combating food deserts and nutritional deficiencies.
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Mayo, Intermountain set partnerships for new tech hubs
The two separate pacts come as health systems seek expertise on the outside.
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HIMSS19: Digital health 'at peak investment cycle,' expert says
Last year's record level of investment into U.S. digital health companies came despite a lull in initial public offerings.
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California county pushes ahead with purchase of Verity hospitals despite AG opposition
Verity filed for bankruptcy in August. Last month, a judge denied California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's petition to block the sale of the two hospitals, citing lack of standing.
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HIMSS19: CVS, Cigna execs tout pharmacies amid pricing debate
The PBM leaders made the pitch they are well-placed to help drive down costs, given patients interact far more often with pharmacists than other healthcare providers.
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Accrediting group updates widely used quality metrics
Medicare Advantage plans use NCQA quality metrics to measure the performance within their provider networks, any changes to those measures will be closely watched as MA plans now cover 22.4 million seniors.
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Payers divided over best value-based payment model, survey finds
The new HealthEdge survey found that more than half of respondents believe provider and member engagement are the biggest obstacles to implementing value-based contracts.
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HIMSS19: CMS plans to host AI challenge, innovation chief says
The goal of the initiative is to spur private interest in the tech, improve the government's grasp on healthcare data, eliminate unnecessary care and cut costs, Adam Boehler said.
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HIMSS19: Private sector catch-up, patient matching and standard APIs dominate first full day
Support for the HHS rules (but some concern over implementation) was the focus at the start of health IT's biggest week.
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HIMSS19: Verma touts Blue Button 2.0 apps, though uptake still low
Only a few thousand Medicare beneficiaries have elected to share their claims data with production developers, the CMS administrator said.
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Mid-sized hospitals could recover $500K through finding dual-eligibles
Medicaid is a "significant source of untapped reimbursements," according to a new report from TransUnion Healthcare.
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Provider groups wary of major changes to HIPAA
In response to an HHS request for information, AHA, AMA and others urged maintaining the status quo when it comes to potential amendments to the privacy law to better accommodate for value-based payment models.
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California leads in Healthgrades' best hospitals for 2019
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California grabbed a spot on the top hospitals list along with the Mayo Clinics in Minnesota and Phoenix. Facilities in seven states and D.C. failed to make the cut.
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HIMSS19: New API coming for Medicare ACOs
The application programming interface builds off Medicare fee-for-service's API, Blue Button 2.0, but is much wider in scope.
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SponsoredSpecial Delivery: How a specialty pharmacy and a PBM worked together to deliver life-saving treatment in record time
Getting life-saving treatment to a patient in less than 24 hours is one of many examples of the value and importance of collaboration between specialty pharmacies and PBMs.
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Data breaches compromised 15.1M patient records last year
The number of affected records was up sharply from the year before, when nearly 500 breaches affected 5.6 million records, according to Protenus.
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Regeneron, Sanofi cut PCSK9 list price, matching earlier move by rival Amgen
The drugmakers will soon make Praluent available for 60% less than the cholesterol drug's original price, a rare move reflective of ongoing commercial challenges.
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HIMSS19: Grassley presses CMS on recovery of improper EHR incentive payments
CMS Administrator Seema Verma told Healthcare Dive she continues to monitor efforts to recover the improper payments, but noted they occurred prior to President Donald Trump taking office.
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Prices — not use — drive higher healthcare costs, HCCI says
Inpatient utilization dropped, but higher prices increased inpatient spending by 10% between 2013 and 2017. Meanwhile, outpatient surgery prices and higher emergency room use and prices led to more outpatient costs.
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Deep DiveHospital lobby ramps up 'Medicare for all' opposition
As more Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace the idea, health systems and providers have picked up lobbying efforts arguing it would shutter hospitals.
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Molina saw membership drop in 2018, but net income rose substantially
Analysts characterized the better-than-expected results as "eye-popping."
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Providence St. Joseph snaps up blockchain-powered RCM platform Lumedic
The deal makes Providence St. Joseph the first integrated provider-payer system with a scalable blockchain tool for RCM, the nonprofit system said Monday at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
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Data blocking, standard APIs targeted in long-awaited EHR rules
The AHA is pushing back against a proposal that electronic event notification be required to take part in Medicare and Medicaid.
UPDATED: Feb. 12, 2019 at 3:59 p.m.
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Athenahealth's $5.7B acquisition finalized
The cloud-based health IT vendor will combine with Veritas Capital's Virence Health Technologies to form a new company under the athenahealth brand.
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