Anthem, the country’s second-largest health insurer has refused to allow the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Inspector General (OIG) to conduct vulnerability scans on its IT systems after recently suffering a data breach affecting 78.8M individuals, according to GovInfoSecurity. Anthem previously refused an audit from vulnerability tests from OIG back in 2013.
"What we had attempted to schedule for the summer of 2015 was a sort of 'partial audit' - what we call a 'limited scope
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FDA Launches Mobile Health App to Accelerate Access to Drug Shortages
On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the agency’s first mobile health app called DrugShortages that allows users to quickly identify current drug shortages, resolved shortages, and discontinuations of drug products. The app was developed as part of the FDA’s efforts outlined in the Strategic Plan for Preventing and Mitigating Drug Shortages to improve access to information about drug shortages.
“The FDA understands that health care professionals and pharmacists
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Has For-Profit Healthcare Destroyed The Soul of Medicine?
The changes in medical care over the last five decades have been dramatic. Technological and scientific advances have given patients access to a level of medical diagnosis and care previously undreamed of.
During this time, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided more people with the opportunity to take advantage of that care. Yet despite all that extraordinary progress towards value based healthcare something is missing, states J. Joseph Marr, MD, a retired academic
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Deloitte, Cognitive Scale Partner to Boost Patient Engagement
Cognitive Scale today announced an agreement with Deloitte Consulting to deliver services and technology that will enable both companies to take a leadership position in transforming the delivery of healthcare to consumers and care providers through the application of cognitive cloud technology.
Partnership Details
Deloitte plans to leverage Cognitive Scale’s technology in a number of strategic initiatives, including the shift of the US healthcare system from volume to value and the
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Infographic: How Does Google Plan to Transform Healthcare?
CoverMyMeds Launches First-Ever ePA National Adoption Scorecard
CoverMyMeds, working with a broad group of influential industry stakeholders, today released the Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) National Adoption Scorecard. The ePA National Adoption Scorecard is the first of its kind and highlights the current state of the ePA industry, including ePA adoption rates and implementation statuses of the industry’s largest participants.
Scorecard Overview
CoverMyMeds’ ePA National Adoption Scorecard highlights the current state of the ePA industry,
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Intel-GE Care Innovations Partners With Xavier to Test Health Peripherals and Mobile Applications
Intel-GE Care Innovations has announced a partnership with Xavier University’s Center for Innovation to test and analyze health peripherals and mobile health apps designed to help people manage their health, including chronic conditions. The partnership will provide Care Innovations with a permanent testing lab within the Center’s facilities that will help generate new insights about the best technologies and care plans that will connect patient data from the home to clinicians, bridging the
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HIMSS Analytics Awards Carolina Health System With Stage 7 Ambulatory Award
HIMSS Analytics has awarded 230 Carolinas Health System clinics with Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards, becoming the first health system to achieve the award in North and South Carolina. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for ambulatory facilities owned by hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. Stage 7 represents the highest level of EHR adoption and indicates a health system’s
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CMS Reports 81% of ICD-10 Test Claims Accepted
81 percent of submitted ICD-10 test claims were accepted during the first ICD-10 end-to-end testing from January 26 through February 3, 2015, according to CMS. 661 healthcare organizations including providers, clearinghouses and billing agencies participated submitting a total of 14,929 ICD-10 test claims, 12,149 of which were accepted. Overall, the results demonstrate the CMS systems are ready to accept ICD-10 claims.
ICD-10 claim test results found the reasons for rejected claims
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Parks Associates: 5% of Households Use A Smart Watch for Health
5 percent of U.S. broadband households use a smart watch with health and fitness tracking functions, while 8 percent use a digital pedometer or fitness/activity tracker, according to market research firm Parks Associates. The findings reflects Parks Associates previous reports from last summer that finds only 4 percent of U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a smart watch in 2014, up only 2 percent from 2013.
Despite the upcoming launch of the Apple Watch, the smart watch adoption will
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