Thursday, July 21, 2022: Health IT

Apple published a report outlining its contributions to “science-based technology” and health care. The 60-page report states that the company is increasing access to health data, which is helping patients and providers share medical information and support clinical...

Thursday, July 21, 2022: Health IT

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged 36 defendants with using telehealth to defraud Medicare. Allegedly, the defendants engaged conducted $1.2 billion in medical fraud, with much of that coming from phony telehealth claims for unnecessary genetic tests and medical...

Tuesday, July 19, 2022: Health IT

Tech developer Fold Health launched an interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care.  The company offers a comprehensive, customizable operating system that can be laid on top of existing EHRs or platforms. The entrepreneurs built the initial...

Monday, July 11, 2022: Health IT

Signify Health announced it will exit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) model, citing that the agency’s new retrospective trend calculations reduce the opportunity for savings. The...

Friday, June 17, 2022: Health IT

A new report found that tracking tool installed on some hospital websites has been gathering patients’ protected health information and sharing it with Facebook. The Meta Pixel tracker sent the data to Facebook in exchange for analytics about the ads that the...

Wednesday, June 15, 2022: Health IT

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced it intends to release a $50 million funding opportunity for studies showing how telemedicine can improve the health of patients with chronic diseases. The institute is specifically interested in...