Eli Richman
FierceHealth
Washington, DC, United States
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams calls on physicians to take a more proactive role in opioid crisis
Amid new evidence on how prescribing patterns have affected the opioid crisis, healthcare leaders are asking physicians to re-evaluate how they prescribe the drugs—and to whom they prescribe them. → Read More
Puerto Rico, other territories facing Medicaid 'cliff' with expiring ACA and disaster funds
If the funding situation isn't fixed, the uninsured population in some of the U.S. territories could double, Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in a recent brief. → Read More
Study: Short-term health plans market themselves as ACA replacements—despite coverage deficits
While short-term insurance plans have considerably fewer coverage benefits than ACA-compliant plans, a new study finds that they often market themselves as equivalent—and consumers are believing them. → Read More
Moving beyond medical errors: How EHRs are 'nudging' practices to change certain behavior
Practices are increasingly willing to experiment with EHRs to change clinician behavior. One trial at the University of Chicago demonstrated it could help patients get more sleep through an alert system. → Read More
Google, Sanofi-backed group offering grants for women in health IT
The Women & Access to Health Daring Circle kicked off its 2019 Women's Forum with a call for applications from women entrepreneurs in health IT. Winners will receive funding, mentoring and advertising. → Read More
Gallup: Rate of uninsured adults reaches 13.7%, highest in 4 years
The adult uninsured rate has surged to its highest level since the implementation of Obamacare, according to a new Gallup poll. It rose almost 3 percentage points since its low point of 10.9% in 2016. → Read More
JPMorgan spinoff Kadena puts blockchain on AWS—and on the table for small and medium-sized businesses
Despite all the hype about blockchain's future in healthcare, it's hard for smaller players like private practices to build such systems themselves. Kadena is aiming to fix that by putting an easy-to-set-up blockchain platform on Amazon Web Services. → Read More
Oregon bill moves to ban unauthorized sale of deidentified data
HIPAA governs much of the healthcare industry, but it doesn't protect healthcare data that is stripped of personally identifiable information. That distinction has caused some concern, and a new bill in Oregon is moving to ban the sale of such data without patient consent. → Read More
Optum breaks $100B in revenue for the first time, boosting UnitedHealth's growth in 2018
UnitedHealth Group earned $4.5 billion in the fourth quarter, bringing full-year earnings to $17.3 billion, the company announced in its earnings report on Tuesday morning. → Read More
Federal judge blocks Trump administration's rule impeding birth control coverage mandates in 13 states, D.C.
A federal judge for 13 states and the District of Columbia has blocked the Trump administration's birth control coverage rule, which was set to go into effect Monday. The judge said the new rule could cause tens of thousands of women to lose coverage. → Read More
GE Healthcare partners with Vanderbilt University on precision immunotherapy apps
GE Healthcare announced a five-year partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in which the organizations will work to deliver safer and more precise immunotherapy treatment for cancer patients. → Read More
Where's the evidence that app will help your health? Study finds there's likely not much
Digital healthcare apps are a rapidly growing space, yet the companies developing them lack real proof of their effectiveness. In fact, few studies have even tried to examine the apps' impact on high-burden patients, instead focusing mostly on healthy populations, according to a new report. → Read More
FDA launches new tool aimed at safe deployment of AI in healthcare
The FDA has released model 1.0 of the Software Precertification Pilot Program to give guidance to the health IT community about artificial intelligence. The FDA wants to make sure such technology is safe and effective when it's making decisions about patients' health. → Read More
Medsphere buys HealthLine Solutions to enhance EHR platform
Medsphere is adding to its suite of solutions by acquiring smart health tech vendor HealthLine Solutions. The company hopes to use HealthLine's application to improve the revenue cycle management component of its CareVue EHR platform. → Read More
Health IT Roundup—Novant offers physician searches through Google Assistant; Smart healthcare products to reach $66.7B
Patients at one health system with an Android device or a Google Home product can now use them to find their nearest physician, plus more health IT headlines from around the web. → Read More
Ransomware, phishing attacks top new HHS list of cyberthreats in healthcare
In an end-of-year guidance, HHS issued a list of the most prevalent cyberthreats in the healthcare industry—and 10 suggestions for ways that stakeholders can protect themselves. → Read More
ACA add-ons could bring uninsured rate down from 12% to 7.3%, study finds
Between a recent court decision and a hostile administration, the Affordable Care Act has never been on weaker footing. But if Congress wanted to affirm the law's constitutionality and provide some legislative fixes along the way, it could reduce the uninsured population by 12.2 million people, a recent study found. → Read More
8 Medicare and Medicaid reforms that would have the biggest impact on federal spending
In a comprehensive report detailing options for reducing the deficit, CBO scored several healthcare reform options. FierceHealthcare breaks down the eight proposals with the biggest impact on the federal budget. → Read More
8 Medicare and Medicaid reforms that would have the biggest impact on federal spending
In a comprehensive report detailing options for reducing the deficit, CBO scored several healthcare reform options. FierceHealthcare breaks down the eight proposals with the biggest impact on the federal budget. → Read More
Cedars-Sinai, Jefferson Health among 7 new health systems joining Medicaid Transformation Project
The Medicaid Transformation Project, which AVIA and Andy Slavitt launched earlier this year, is one step closer to its first goal: transforming the emergency department for low-income Medicaid patients. → Read More