Health and wellness

Health insurers are joining the ranks of providers and vendors adopting HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing information.

Jack Stoddard, a longtime healthcare executive, has been named as COO of the healthcare initiative.

Studio H in Boston will be staffed by as many as 250 employees to develop new products and services.

The insurer’s Blue365 program aims to motivate its 60 million members with the fitness tracker/smartwatch.

Health insurer hopes devices will help patients manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

Startups Oscar and Bright Health are expanding this year, citing favorable market conditions.

Groups say the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could resume distributing risk-adjustment funds by issuing an interim final rule.

Action by CMS could drive up premiums, force companies to stop offering coverage to needy consumers.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Selection of Atul Gawande, MD, to lead the new healthcare firm will advance innovation and change, says AHIP’s Matt Eyles.

Atul Gawande, MD, who has written extensively about the U.S. failure to grapple with healthcare spending, will lead the new initiative.

The Justice Department’s has sided with some states in a lawsuit alleging that the healthcare law is invalid due to the its individual mandate being shut down.

Non-payment of certain subsidies, less enforcement of a rule requiring insurance and limited competition caused insurers to raise their premiums by about 34%.

In a final look at the startup cohort, improving employee performance, managing chronic pain and detecting insurance fraud take center stage.

Several insurers in Maryland and Virginia are seeking double-digit percentage increases in monthly costs for individual medical plans in 2019.

In a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary-care clinics to oversee expanded health-care services across the company.

Retailers are eyeing health insurers as acquisition targets to improve their pharmacy business, but carriers' information assets and analytics prowess are prizes as well.

Organizations that adopt Voice over Internet Protocol for their communications, such as video conferencing, need to take additional steps to keep sensitive data secure.