The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an evaluation of HHS efforts to improve electronic health records (EHR) for post-acute care. The GAO report states that the HHS “lacks a comprehensive plan to meet its goal of increasing the proportion of post-acute care providers electronically exchanging health information.”

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) did away with insurance companies imposing lifetime limits on how much it would spend on a customer’s care. With the law’s future in doubt, however, both patients and the physicians who treat them worry those caps may return.

MediBeacon, a company within the Pansend Life Sciences platform of HC2 Holdings, has released the results of a clinical trial testing the effectiveness of its Transdermal Glomerular Filtration Rate ("GFR") Monitor on patients with ranging kidney function.

A recent increase in the live-streaming of suicides have Facebook executives taking matters of prevention into their own hands and the hands of artificial intelligence.

The next generation of physicians may need to learn more about alternative payment models and the transition from volume to value in medical school, according to doctors offering a crash course on value-based care at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Reduce Limitations from Anxiety (RELAX) trial have found telehealth to be effective treating patients with panic and anxiety disorders.

HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the winners of the Phase 2 in the Move Health Data Forward Challenge, a competition for developers to build applications for the secure sharing of health information. 

Charging patients a monthly fee for routine primary care may make a comeback as policymakers weigh whether and how to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).