Included in President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 is a big increase in what the medical device and pharmaceutical industries would pay the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to cover the costs of reviewing their products.

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2018 would reduce funding to HHS by $15.1 billion, a cut of nearly 18 percent, eliminating millions for education and training programs for healthcare professionals, while cutting $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) alone.

Diagnosing cancer involves physicians reviewing large amounts of data. Still, variability among pathologists can complicate the process and result in misdiagnoses. Google is hoping to use deep learning to develop an algorithm capable of detecting cancer.

In an attempt to obtain greater accuracy on cost estimates, hospitals have developed their own internal systems to identify services with high and low profit margins and control spending. If what they’ve come up with is more detailed than what CMS uses, shouldn’t CMS be using that data?

HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, weighed in on a number of healthcare issues during a March 15 CNN town hall-style event, focusing mainly on defending the Republican-sponsored replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Thanks to the expansion of electronic medical records and patient portals, individuals have more access to health-related data than ever. But complex medical language can often keep people from understanding much of it. To improve patients' comprehension, researchers have developed a translator of medical terminology.

Some 12.2 million people purchased health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges in the last open enrollment period, half a million fewer than in the 2016 and well below the 13.8 million projected by HHS under the Obama administration.

Miscalculations by Nantucket Cottage Hospital in Massachusetts in wages and costs in 2015 resulted in Medicare paying all hospitals in the state $133 million more than it should—creating a chain reaction that resulted in hospitals around the country being underpaid by CMS.