- Price transparency full of challenges for health systems, consultants say (healthcarefinancenews.com)
Hospitals face pressures to raise prices as consumers watch costs closely. "In a world where pricing should become less important, it’s actually becoming more important,"….While value-based payments by nature make it harder to pin down fees for services, patients carrying a greater degree of the cost demand price transparency….
- Digital health market continues to ‘mature’ in 2015 (fiercehealthit.com)
The digital health market continues to mature as we move into the second half of 2015,…focus on personalized medicine leading the way,…digital health funding is not outpacing 2014, which was a record year for investments in the market, capital flow is remaining steady this year,...
- Hellenic Assn of Pharmaceutical Companies assures that there is no reason for concern about the adequacy of medicines in this critical period. (sfee.gr)
Greek and multinational (pharmaceutical companies), is (are) in constant and close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, doing everything possible to ensure the smooth and uninterrupted supply of the medicine’s distribution chain.
- The Regulatory Quagmire Of Treatments For Sickle Cell Disease (forbes.com)
…regulatory quagmire for more of the bizarre tales from the FDA and the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute… more than $15.3 million to fund clinical research for sickle cell disease therapies, including a total of $1.2 million to support three clinical studies…does not meet the strict definition to qualify for additional incentives…
- Healthcare gets poor rating for application security (fiercehealthit.com)
healthcare industry fares poorly compared to other industries in reducing application security risk,… "Given the large amount of sensitive data collected by healthcare organizations, it's concerning that 80 percent of healthcare applications exhibit cryptographic issues such as weak algorithms upon initial assessment,"…
- CMS pays $8 billion in reinsurance program to keep high-risk covered (healthcarefinancenews.com)
… 2014 benefit year, over $7.9 billion in reinsurance payments will be made to 437 issuers nationwide….Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is spending close to $8 billion in payments to issuers with exceptionally high costs,…analysis shows the reinsurance program is working as intended by compensating issuers that enroll higher risk individuals…
- Measles kills first patient in 12 years (usatoday.com)
…first measles death in 12 years, according to Washington state health officials....…measles was undetected and confirmed only through an autopsy,….
- Why hospitals need chief quality officers (fiercehealthcare.com)
healthcare industry transitions from a volume-based to a value-based model, more healthcare organizations are adding the position of chief quality officer..…Care value's increased importance, from value-based care to readmission penalties, has made quality of care a priority.
- Greek debt crisis will not affect supply of medicines, pharmaceutical companies say (pharmaceutical-journal.com)
"Companies have made a commitment to make the same adequate supplies of medicines," …. Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) would like to see the introduction of export bans, so medicines cannot be traded out of the country…
- Centene’s $6.3B Health Net Deal Shows Medicaid Plans Quick To Diversify (forbes.com)
Centene has agreed to buy Health Net for $6.3 billion is the latest sign insurance carriers known for contracting with states to cover poor Americans are making a bigger push into other medical benefits…providing health benefits to more than 10 million people, a number that is growing as more states agree to expand their Medicaid coverage…