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A collaboration between NantHealth and Blue Shield of California announced Tuesday will see the two organizations develop a clinic-based "continuous learning center" (CLC) that will leverage supercomputing systems, high-speed, secure-fiber networks and fact-based genomic data systems, which will allow providers to provide personalized, molecular-based medicine.
One of California's largest health insurers has agreed to pay a settlement sum for an alleged data breach that compromised the personal health information of 33,756 of its members.
West Penn Allegheny Health System announced last Friday that it is canceling the $475 million affiliation agreement with Highmark Inc. over demands by the region's dominant insurer that the health system enter bankruptcy proceedings in order to move forward with the deal.
Saying insurer Highmark Inc. has breached their $475 million affiliation agreement, West Penn Allegheny Health System on Friday announced that it was walking away from the deal and would be "exploring new options for its future direction."
New research suggests Arizona would save money with Medicaid expansion
New research from the Grand Canyon Institute suggests that Arizona would save money and create thousands of jobs if it chooses to expand its Medicaid program under the program set forth by the federal government in the Affordable Care Act.
Officials from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have issued a challenge to get 1,000 critical access and small rural hospitals to meaningful use by 2014.
It's no secret there are many in the healthcare community who feel the move toward accountable care organizations (ACOs), is simply a flavor of the decade whose taste will sour and will inevitably take a place on the scrap heap of failed system reforms alongside its first cousin the HMO.
How to get more medical students interested in primary care careers has been much discussed due to the primary care physician shortage and the spotlight the Affordable Care Act has placed on primary care. A new study provides insight into understanding what drives medical students away from careers in primary care.
Amid emerging evidence that some hospitals may be using electronic health records (EHRs) to "game the system" by either cloning or "upcoding" claims, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a warning letter Monday to the CEOs of five hospital associations that such activity will not be tolerated.
Amid emerging evidence that some hospitals may be using electronic health records (EHRs) to "game the system" by either cloning or "upcoding" claims, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a warning letter Monday to the CEOs of five hospital associations that such activity will not be tolerated.