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Payers have seen success in improving health outcomes by taking a holistic approach to member interventions, says Leah Dewey, vice president of Cotiviti.

Health equity index measures will be used in determining a plan's bonus payments, says Christie Teigland, vice president of Research Science and Advanced Analytics at Inovalon.  

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recommends Medicare develop its own source for race and ethnicity data collection in the Medicare population, says Ann Maxwell, HHS-OIG deputy inspector general for evaluations.  

The average total cost of a cyberattack was $4.99 million, a 13% increase from the previous year, new survey finds.

AI promises automation and augmentation, but risks include input poisoning into large amounts of data.

Algorithms and large language models are already transforming healthcare processes across many use cases. Here's how some pioneering health IT leaders are using AI today, and how they're planning for the future.

More than half of the respondents cited software and technology as one of their top three strategic priorities, a big leap from last year.

EHR systems rated as being difficult to operate did not perform well in safety tests, which suggests the need to optimize EHRs for ease of use.

More than 60% of respondents reported a moderate or substantial impact on care delivery, while 26% paid ransoms.

Authors say MA growth means insurers are increasingly attempting to curtail inefficient use of post-acute care services.