Primary care doctors in rural parts of New Jersey are receiving education and training from specialists via “tele-monitoring” clinics so patients don’t have to travel long distances to get a specialist’s care.

 Medical literature is the latest victim of the fake news trend. 

Issues with the October 2016 ICD-10 update mean CMS can’t process certain quality measure data for the last quarter of the year, so the agency will waive penalties related to the glitch’s impact on the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).

People who had gone three years or more without having health insurance made up more than half of the gains in coverage in 2014, the first year of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s insurance marketplace and Medicaid expansion. 

Yiling Pharmaceuticals, a technology company in China, is investing $20 million in HealthWatch, an Israeli company that makes medical-grade smart clothing.

Researchers have found that using tablets is both a safe and effective treatment for agitated patients with dementia.

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested documents from the country’s two largest dialysis chains on their relationship to the American Kidney Fund and whether the fund favored their patients over others in premium assistance programs.

Two Pore Guys (2PG) have announced a collaboration with oncologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to evaluate its handheld nanopore-based platform capable of detecting cell-free circulating tumor DNA from liquid biopsies.