With less than 75 days till open enrollment begins for health insurance exchanges, time is running out for education, outreach and enrollment efforts. But states are hitting the ground running, according to a panel discussion at the World Congress 4th Annual Leadership Summit on Health Insurance Exchanges in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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Health care service firm, Paladina Health, announced today
that Jami Doucette, chief development officer of Paladina Health, will present at the World Congress On-Site Employee Health & Wellness Clinics Conference July 24-26 in Chicago at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Chicago Metro.
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"EHRs weren't designed to accumulate the kind of data we need for population health or bundled payments, so we've got some work to do there," Joseph Pleasant, CIO of Premier Inc., said in a session at the World Health Care Congress. As you start to get ...
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The future of health information technology may lie in the hands of patients. Panelists at the World Health Congress on Tuesday hashed out the challenges of disjointed health information and predicted what form the elusive universal health record will take — and if that's up to patients.
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The 10th annual World Health Care Congress just wrapped up at the Gaylord National Hotel. One key subject was how to reduce the costs of health care.
Doctor Salim Aziz, a cardio-vascular surgeon, was a presenter. He joined us on Thursday to talk about the issue.
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The availability of employer-sponsored insurance has fallen by about 10% over the past decade, which has spurred an increase in the overall number of Americans without health insurance, according to a report released today.
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Doctors talked about how to reduce the cost of healthcare and other topics. Salim Azizi, MD talked to us about the issues before the World Health Congress
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Corporate wellness programs have become a cause celebre of the cost-saving era in healthcare. Everyone has started using employee wellness plans and there are plenty of ways to try them.
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This week's 10th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C., saw a lively discussion April 9 involving a panel of experts on innovation, including Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Joe Pleasant Jr., senior vice president and CIO of the Premier health alliance.
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Is healthcare at its Wal-Mart moment?
Barry Mason thinks so. IBM’s vice president of global healthcare payers sees an entire industry – insurance companies, hospitals, medical devices, pharma and beyond – getting behind concepts like convergence with more than just words.
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When an employee first comes on board at a new company, that individual must review numerous documents, policies and forms. In addition to covering a variety of topics, such as initial title, compensation, location and manager, these documents should also focus on issues regarding confidential information, trade secrets, IP and related issues. The employer should define what its data/information is and inform the new employee what constitutes employer property. Before a separating employee leaves the organization, it is important to remind the employee that there is an ongoing obligation to protect the employer's IP and confidential information through the nondisclosure agreement or comparable document that the employee signed during the onboarding process.
When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, it caused no small amount of consternation and hand-wringing among medical and pharmaceutical meeting planners, in part because of an immense new level of information reporting it required of them-penalties for failure to report thousands of pieces of data about the meetings between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers including big fines and potential jail time.
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International Securities Exchange LLC recently urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision that blocked the exchange from selling options linked to the S&P; 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, saying federal copyright law preempts misappropriation claims made by the indices' owners.
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The Internet age has presented new challenges for defining what is “fair disclosure.” Netflix and its chief executive, Reed Hastings, have been warned by regulators about a 43-word post that Mr. Hastings made on his Facebook page in July, in which he said subscribers had watched one billion hours of video the previous month.
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