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.

Intralign Health, an operating room optimization solutions provider, has named a new CEO as it aims to improve its company’s profitability.

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.

One of the two antitrust lawsuits against mergers of large health insurers would have to be reassigned to another judge if both were to be settled before the end of 2016, according to U.S. District Judge John Bates.

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.