By Chad Terhune – The head of Aetna Inc., the nation’s third-largest health insurer, said he supports insurance exchanges, even though he questioned their sustainability earlier this month and lost money in the marketplaces last year.
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By Bennett Lauber – This year at HIMSS there was no shortage of talk about the “lack of usability” in EHRs. In the final HIMSS16 show daily there were four articles that addressed some aspect of EHR usability.
By Keith Lage – Is your practice battling declining reimbursement? Declining reimbursement has always been a complex challenge for medical practices but today’s changing healthcare landscape has even more providers worried about the future of their revenue cycle.
By Dawn Crump – Like the heavy rains, flooding and snowstorms experienced early this year, a deluge of audits is putting hospitals and health systems in a potentially precarious situation. New audits and activity is already underway. It is imperative that healthcare providers adequately educate themselves and plan ahead for the plethora of audits ahead—old and new.
By William Hyman – In May 2015 I commented here on the then pending legislation in the House to limit the FDA with respect to the regulation of Clinical Decision Support systems (CDS). At that time there was related draft legislation in the Senate. The House subsequently passed a version of its CURES Act in July 2015 which included the Health Software section that limited FDA’s oversight.
By Karen B. DeSalvo & Steven Posnack – As a health care consumer, imagine if you were able to choose a software application to create a secure snapshot of your health information, like pictures that extend over the course of your lifetime.
By Matt Fisher – The HIPAA Privacy Rule is an aspect of HIPAA that does not necessarily receive much attention. Most of the recent settlements and breach actions related to violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The Security Rule offers more glamour from the press perspective because cybersecurity, hacking and other activities attract headlines.
By Andy Slavitt – It was early 2015 and we had just gotten through a second successful season with HealthCare.gov, the turnaround that originally brought me into government, when the articles and letters started flying on our next big implementation – one that would affect nearly every physician and hospital in the country. And, anxiety levels were high.
By D’Arcy Gue – In a world where only the wealthy suffered from addiction, we wouldn’t have to worry so much about the effectiveness of treatment or who was going to pay for it. But most people don’t live in Malibu or have access to Betty Ford, so efficacy matters.