by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealthcare Jan 16, 2017 12:26pm Under HIPAA, healthcare organizations are required to conduct a periodic security risk analysis, but one executive says health systems should do a more comprehensive self-assessment that pulls in a broader scope of [...]
by Joanne Finnegan | FierceHealthcare Jan 19, 2017 12:00pm Most physicians charge more than the Medicare program pays for their services, but there’s a wide variation among specialties and regions, a new study has found. The study, published in JAMA, found [...]
by Joanne Finnegan | FierceHealthcare Jan 20, 2017 10:09am Oops. A pilot project focused on providing home-based primary care services to patients with chronic conditions didn’t save as much money as originally thought, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
by Joanne Finnegan | FierceHealthcare Jan 20, 2017 12:00pm A couple of veteran techies have launched a primary care practice with a patient experience that's reminiscent of visiting an Apple store—or the set of a sci-fi movie. The Forward clinic was [...]
by Ilene MacDonald | FierceHealthcare Jan 20, 2017 10:59am Scientists worry that reports President Donald Trump may establish a panel on vaccine safety headed by longtime vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could cause some people to refuse protective immunizations, leading [...]
by Paige Minemyer | FierceHealthcare Jan 17, 2017 1:23pm As Tom Frieden, M.D., winds down his final days as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he said that future administrations should work to establish an emergency response fund [...]
by Ilene MacDonald | FierceHealthcare Jan 13, 2017 11:59am The death of a Nevada woman in September was due to a bacterial infection that was resistant to every single antibiotic in the United States. And infection-control experts are alarmed. “I think [...]
By Leslie Small | FierceHealthcare Jan 11, 2017 12:24pm President-elect Donald Trump has selected current Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin to lead the VA, he announced Wednesday at his first postelection press conference. Shulkin, Trump said, “will [...]
by Joanne Finnegan | FierceHealth Jan 17, 2017 11:39am In the face of the country’s opioid epidemic and a push to restrict patients’ access to addictive painkillers, the medical community is sharply divided over how to treat people with chronic pain. [...]
by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealthIT Jan 4, 2017 9:25am Healthcare is one of three industries facing the highest risk of a cyberattack in 2017, particularly as patient records and medical devices have become more interconnected. Along with the financial and energy [...]