The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first buprenorphine implant, Probuphine, to treat addiction to both prescription and illegal opioids.

Here are some highlights of healthcare news from Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Alaska and Kentucky.

The final version of the policy principles governing data security efforts within President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) has been released. 

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are willing to leave the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) unless CMS changes course and allows them to be eligible for MARCA’s advanced alternative payment models (APMs) system.

Several data security experts testified before a congressional panel in favor of a House proposal to elevate HHS’s chief information security officer (CISO) to a separate office, while one expressed concerns about making the office a presidential appointment.

Healthcare CEOs topped the list of executive compensation in 2015 with a 7 percent increase from the previous year.

New guidance from HHS’s Office of Civil Rights and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality clarified that providers can’t use the Patient Safety Act to stop patients who believed they were harmed from obtaining records about their care.

Rather than attempting to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act, a new proposal from two Republican members of Congress would keep certain provisions while getting rid of mandates on individuals to have insurance and for employers to provide it.