A September 24 deadline set by the Food and Drug Administration is looming for Class II medical devices, such as condoms or wheelchairs, to be outfitted with unique device identifier (UDI) barcodes, but in a survey of device makers, only a few said their companies were currently compliant with the standard.

Recently, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) held their annual awards to recognize leaders in healthcare IT. Among those recipients was Peter Basch, MD, MACP, Senior Director for IT Quality and Safety, Research and National Health IT Policy at MedStar Health.

In an effort to fight the rise in opioid abuse, 29 U.S. Senators are asking CMS to change Medicaid rules to allow substance treatment facilities with more than 16 beds to be reimbursed when they treat Medicaid beneficiaries over the age of 22.

Exposure to racist or discriminatory behaviors over a lifetime can be harmful to overall mental and physical health, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Such health detriments are disproportionately heaped upon ethnic and racial minorities (especially people of color in Western countries), because they are more likely to be the subjects of such behaviors.

Technology has seeped into nearly aspect of life, including health, which means millions of women use apps to track their menstrual cycles just as they use them to track train schedules. 

The overwhelming response to Louisiana’s expanded Medicaid program is an illustration of how many people have been waiting a chance to get health insurance, especially in states where politicians have resisted the Affordable Care Act, writes Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times.

A new data analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Americans’ average weight in 2014 had increased for both men and women compared to 1994, while average height remained the same, a sign of the increase in obesity among the entire population.

Just days after the news surfaced that Zika is being transmitted in the continental U.S., the National Institutes of Health announced the start of a phase I human trial for one Zika vaccine.