Compliance & Legal
CEO Lester Stockett was among 24 telemedicine executives charged in schemes billing Medicare $1.7 billion, according to DOJ.
From 1992 to 2008, 36% of post-market studies had not been completed, and many took five years to even begin.
The bill would require Kaiser Permanente to provide more data about the revenue and profits of individual hospitals.
The Centene subsidiary, Aetna and three other MCOs were paid $7.6 billion by Medicaid to cover more than 1.7 million beneficiaries.
Audacious Inquiry President Scott Afzal discusses his company's encounter notification service for physicians that has become the starting point for using triggered events for a health information exchange.
The primary reason for noncompliance was that most providers don't send records electronically even when so requested.
Despite reporting strong second quarter bookings increases of 31% over the previous year, Allscripts had a second quarter net loss of $150 million.
The fine is the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers' privacy, according to the FTC.
The cost of a healthcare breach is about $408 per patient record and that doesn't include the loss of business, productivity and reputation.
Data ownership, access and control are just a few of the benefits that blockchain can provide in healthcare, says Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy.