In January, The Joint Commission will launch the Sustainable Healthcare Certification program, enabling U.S. hospitals to enhance sustainability and lower greenhouse gas emissions. This voluntary initiative provides a structured framework for hospitals to pursue…
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GoodRx, a discount pricing company, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with pharmacy benefit manager MedImpact to launch an integrated savings solution to help lower drug costs for patients.
Santa Monica, California-based GoodRx helps consumers…
The following is a guest article by Paul Christie, Co-Founder and CEO at Tachmed
The UK’s robust and well-established pharmacy model is facing huge changes this year, as hundreds of chemists across the country are…
Global Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates remain low despite available WHO-approved vaccines. Digital interventions for promoting vaccination uptake offer a scalable and accessible solution to this issue. Here we report a systematic review and…
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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Shauna McMahon as its new chief information officer to oversee digital technology and innovation across the trust.McMahon is currently group chief information officer and senior information risk…
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From January to December 2022, the EMR market in the US has continued to move at a healthy click. Most of the energy that KLAS is seeing is happening in the small hospital space….
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By Mark Melchionna
July 27, 2023 – The owner of Conclave Media (Conclave) and Nationwide Health Advocates (Nationwide) pleaded guilty to a telehealth fraud scheme that involved ordering medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) on behalf…
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s just-announced United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, includes new data elements that advance the Biden-Harris administration’s priorities of advancing equity, diversity and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
July 18, 2023 – Imagine360, a Pennsylvania-based provider of self-funded health plan solutions, alerted over 112,000 individuals about a third-party data breach from January 2023, which occurred on its Citrix file-sharing platform.
Upon discovering…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 17, 2023 – Data from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) indicated that Colorado, like many other states, had higher telehealth utilization and increased spending following the onset of…
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