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The project, named Genomic Data Commons, is a National Cancer Institute initiative and is central to the National Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine Initiative.
Allscripts, Marshfield Clinic Information Services and athenahealth are the highest-ranking EHRs among large physician practices, according to new findings from Black Book Market Research.
Medicare is ambulatory care's favorite insurer when it comes to getting paid faster, according to a new peer60 survey of close to 800 ambulatory care providers.
Three additional defendants, including the son of a southern California hospital owner, have pleaded guilty in an elaborate healthcare fraud scheme that authorities say spawned tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks for patient referrals, and nearly $600 million in fraudulent bills for spinal surgeries performed at Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, the Justice Department announced.
Workforce management and staffing company AMN Healthcare has acquired Peak Health Solutions, a health information management services company that provides remote medical coding and consulting to hospitals and physician medical groups.
Accountable care organizations in Medicare's Shared Savings program will now be held to regional spending benchmarks and not national ones, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Monday, responding to criticism that the earlier rules made it too difficult for strong-performing providers to see savings.
The state Senate this week rejected legislation that would have required medical practitioners to notify their patients if they were on probation for serious infractions.
In an effort to get or keep a good performance rating from the federal government, transplant centers have been labeling some patients "too sick to transplant" and dropping from the waitlist some who may been viable candidates, researchers found. In addition, despite removing more sick patients from the waiting list, one-year survival rates for patients who received transplants didn't improve.
The portion of released prisoners with addiction problems who lacked medical insurance fell sharply after the health law's Medicaid expansion took effect, but drug-treatment rates for ex-offenders barely budged, a new study shows.
If you're one of the nearly 44 million Americans estimated to have a mental health condition, the 2010 health law is supposed to help you get treatment. Yet actually getting that help depends, new research suggests, on who you are and, to an extent, on your racial background. While more people overall are getting mental health care, it's still harder to do if you are not white.