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Strategic Planning

By Beth Jones Sanborn | 01:10 pm | July 14, 2016
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that the agency would consider delaying the implementation of MACRA, the industry-overhauling bi-partisan legislation set to go into effect January 1 of next year.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:25 am | July 13, 2016
Evolent Health, which helps healthcare systems make the transition to value-based care, will acquire the majority of Valence Health's business for about $145 million, the company announced Wednesday.
By Jessica Davis | 02:10 pm | July 12, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has released its guidance to help healthcare organizations handle ransomware attacks, including prevention methods, a detailed description of ransomware and advice on how to respond to a ransomware threat.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:43 pm | July 07, 2016
A Health Affairs study of national healthcare spending and where it's going shows that purchases of medical services and increased compensation of highly skilled professionals accounted for spending growth in multiple areas between 1997 and 2012. The study looked at hospitals, physician offices and outpatient centers.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:11 am | July 07, 2016
CMS is now calling for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals to use a 90-day EHR reporting period in 2016 - down from a full calendar year for returning participants in the government's EHR Incentive Program. They also proposed lowering the bar for achieving Stage 3 objectives, eliminating the Clinical Decision Support and Computerized Provider Order Entry objectives and measures for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:58 am | July 07, 2016
The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in the 2016 fiscal year needed to launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:37 am | June 30, 2016
The first product suite, Pain RelieVR, offers immersive VR games that divert the patient's focus away from the procedure or recovery process.
By Mike Miliard | 09:53 am | June 30, 2016
With more than 350 oncology researchers, data and technology experts, alongside with more 6,000 people at linked events nationwide, it's billed as the the first time a group this big has gathered for such an initiative.
By Susan Morse | 11:03 am | June 28, 2016
The new company will be able to offer health plans and providers a comprehensive suite of end-to-end financial and payment solutions and technologies, according to a McKesson statement.
By Jeff Lagasse | 02:42 pm | June 27, 2016
The two systems will join forces on clinical programs and research.