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Physician fee schedule payments fail to keep up with inflation and threaten patient access to critical treatments, ACS says.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could strain Medicaid budgets, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.

James Millington, director of Healthcare Industry Marketing at VMware, says expect healthcare organizations to be moving their data centers from on-premises to the cloud.

An executive at its Center for Telehealth explains how the Pennsylvania health system evaluates virtual care models – and when it knows it's time for an ER visit instead.

People are starting to seek new avenues of care, using 2020 as an opportunity to work on health goals and reexamine priorities.

The acquisition of private physician practices across the U.S. accelerated after the onset of the pandemic.

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting data shows 95 hospitalizations and one reported death, out of 12.5 million doses administered.

The team believes it has found the best way forward, in part through use of artificial intelligence in the EHR.

Researchers found that more than half of survey respondents agreed that their telehealth visit was better than an in-person one.

The new capability is aimed at employer-sponsored plans, building on existing initiatives for UHC Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.