For nearly 20 years, Greg has written about health information technology for several tech trade publications, with a brief stint in corporate communications for a large medical device manufacturer. He was nominated for a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, and is the recipient of a Post-Newsweek Business Information Editorial Excellence Award for his news reporting. Follow @Slabodkin on Twitter.
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HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is the linchpin of health insurer Humana’s efforts to support data sharing with provider organizations to improve care for its members.
November 18 -
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two health systems and five healthcare insurers to turn over aggregated patient billing and discharge data, as well as employee wage and other information.
October 27 -
The nation needs to develop a digital infrastructure that is interoperable between healthcare and social care organizations.
September 30 - Premera agrees to $74M settlement for 2014 data breach
Five years after hackers accessed the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, parties to a consolidated class action lawsuit have reached one of the largest healthcare data breach settlements.
June 5 -
Roy Beveridge, MD, chief medical officer at Humana, contends that the insurer has made great strides in leveraging data to get ahead in value-based care.
November 7 -
Healthcare insurance giant plans to an integrated EHR for its 50 million fully benefited members leveraging Rally, its health and wellness platform.
October 19 -
Investment focus areas will include analytics, digital health, as well as care delivery and management.
September 14 -
Health insurers are joining the ranks of providers and vendors adopting HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing information.
September 12 -
Payers sign on to initiative designed to shorten the time between FDA approval and coverage decisions for medical devices.
September 11 -
Studio H in Boston will be staffed by as many as 250 employees to develop new products and services.
August 29