Slaying The Dragon

By MIKE MAGEE The date was June 9, 1954. This was over a year after Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The history shows that he had  “rocketed to public attention in 1950 with his allegations that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department…

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Why Epic’s Judy Faulkner Rejects the MBA Mindset

At Forbes Healthcare Summit, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner explained why the company’s long-protected independence and unconventional management approach have been central to its dominance as an EHR vendor. Now, she says the company’s future will depends on how it uses its massive data stores to support AI-powered clinical decisions. The post Why Epic’s Judy Faulkner…

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Relapses Don’t ‘Happen in Clinics’: Empathy Health Technologies Secures $7.6M for Sobriety App

Empathy Health’s $7.6 million round was led by HealthX Ventures and included participation from Nina Capital, Ikigai Healthcare Funds, American Heart Association Ventures, Suncoast Ventures, Cortado Ventures and Wilson Sonsini Investment Company. The post Relapses Don’t ‘Happen in Clinics’: Empathy Health Technologies Secures $7.6M for Sobriety App appeared first on MedCity News.

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Debunked Episode 22: With ACA Subsidies Set to Expire and the Open Enrollment Window Closing, Members of Congress Brainstorm Alternatives

What are the alternatives to extending ACA subsidies for the 22 million people who purchase health plans on the ACA Marketplace? That’s the focus of the latest episode of the Debunked podcast, hosted by MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch. The post Debunked Episode 22:…

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Tracking Applications for Rural Health Transformation Funds

Since the Nov. 5 deadline passed for states to apply for their shares of the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have declined to publicly release the applications. Federal officials are using those submissions, most of them more than 100 pages long, to decide how to divide the…

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Modern Interoperability: How APIs Can Heal a Fragmented System

The go-to mechanisms for differential payment – network design, case management, quality measurement and prior authorization – increasingly rely on APIs capable of handling not only claims data but, more importantly, the clinical data critical to intelligent decision-making. The post Modern Interoperability: How APIs Can Heal a Fragmented System appeared first on MedCity News.

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Republicans Left Tribes Out of Their $50B Rural Fund. Now It’s Up to States To Share.

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access. Federally recognized tribes can’t directly apply for a share of…

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