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Medicare telehealth policy changes are putting pressure on private plans to follow suit.March 31
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Google’s plan to buy Fitbit is running into a wall of antitrust and privacy worries in the U.S., Europe and Australia.February 12
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A new program at Purdue University aims to improve health outcomes by applying real-time physiological data from wearable sensors.January 31
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Humana is entering a partnership with platform and health data solutions provider Validic that will boost connectivity between members’ tech devices and the health plan.January 27
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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey plans to help members monitor diabetes with cell phones, under an agreement with Livongo, provider of a chronic condition management platform.January 24
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is launching a new pharmacy integration app and website that will help members manage prescriptions by using Amazon’s own Internet pharmacy.December 18
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Patients appear willing to pay extra for digital healthcare services, but they aren’t ready to rate those encounters as better than a one-on-one encounter with a doctor.December 11
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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
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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
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Administrative complexity is the biggest contributor to overall healthcare waste in the U.S., according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.October 23
