Risk Management
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday launched a new risk-based primary care initiative that it hopes will accelerate the movement towards value-based reimbursement for medical practices.
As cyberattacks of healthcare systems become more frequent and call attention to the question of whether sensitive data is secure, the Government Accountability Office has released a report identifying significant weaknesses at three selected state-based marketplaces: California, Kentucky and Vermont.
UnitedHealth Group has decided to quit the exchange market in two states, Georgia and Arkansas, according to published reports Friday.
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that's been considered a fix isn't yet working as well as it should, suggests a report released Thursday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell is in the hot seat over a laptop reported stolen from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement in Olympia, Washington.
Healthcare CEOs are increasingly focused on business-level issues, a new report by The Advisory Board has found, as consumerism continues to reshape the industry.
San Diego-based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center and King's Daughters' Health report being hit with malware that compromised their computer systems.
While healthcare provider directories have always been hard to maintain, new regulations can mean costly fines if insurers fail to keep accurate, up-to-date information on the physicians who are in their health plans.
If the spate of recent ransomware attacks on hospitals across the U.S. is any indication of the future of cybercrime, it's clear that hackers are far from finished in pushing boundaries and wreaking havoc on healthcare. The new ransomware, PowerWare, is the latest example.
The rate of security incident disclosures in 2015 surpassed those of 2014, according to the second annual BakerHostetler Security Incident Response report. What's more, healthcare tops the list for frequency of data breaches.