Government & Policy

The funding will help integrate PMP data into provider and pharmacist clinical workflow, using NarxCare technology developed by Kentucky-based Appriss, which will connect the state's PMP to provider and pharmacy EHRs.

Price to head HHS, Mnuchin to head treasury, pending Senate vote.

athenahealth’s CEO said that hospital executives should stop tolerating software that users hate and, instead, demand a new set of core competencies from their technology vendors. And he pointed to Waze, Google and Kayak as examples to emulate. 

Burwell will become the first woman to be president of the university. 

The provider shares the four key principles it has instituted during two decades of clinical and financial success with capitation arrangements.

Explore this topic before HIMSS17 during the Jan. 31 #HCLDR chat. 

While officials made no major changes to the security guidance, the proposed updates evolve the voluntary guidance and introduces measurement methods for cybersecurity.

The Next Generation ACO Model tests whether financial incentives are working to improve outcomes. The 45 participants are up from 17 last year. 

Access to healthcare is underpinned in large part on a health consumer’s access to information about available health care services, their location, price, and if the patient is very fortunate to glean, quality.

Legal expert says that the federal government and Health and Human Services should take into account the challenges and opportunities that new technologies present and how those impact old laws.