Healthcare plans

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.

Healthcare insurance giant plans to an integrated EHR for its 50 million fully benefited members leveraging Rally, its health and wellness platform.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.

The wearables company has created the platform for health insurers, employers and healthcare delivery systems.

The program provides ongoing digital support to prevent the onset of the chronic condition.

Investment focus areas will include analytics, digital health, as well as care delivery and management.

The consumerization of healthcare establishes an environment where shopping for insurance should be similar to an online retail experience.

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 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.

The move could reignite speculation that the two companies will forge a closer partnership.

Responses should demonstrate how similar customers solved the same business challenges in a hosted environment.

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.

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

The proposed Walmart-Humana combination is the latest of a series of moves that point to an abrupt change in the industry.

Retailer and insurer reportedly explored a wide range of options, including a merger.