Wednesday, 7 October 2015

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Express Scripts to cover pricey new cholesterol treatments
9:00:00 AM
The nation's biggest pharmacy benefits manager has decided to cover two new drugs that lower artery-clogging cholesterol but raise concern over prices that can top $14,000 a year.


Right-to-die backers say California helps fight elsewhere
8:45:00 AM
It will soon be legal for the terminally ill to end their own lives in the nation's most populous state, and right-to-die advocates expect other states to follow California's example.


HealthCare.gov getting upgrades
8:45:00 AM
Consumers shopping on the government's health insurance website should find it easier this year to get basic questions answered about their doctors, medications and costs, according to an internal government document.


Healthline spins off tech offering, creates Talix
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 10:54 PM
Healthline Networks, the healthcare media, information and technology company, is breaking off one of its offerings into a separate, wholly owned subsidiary.


The consumer digital health market still revolves around providers, payers
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 9:39 PM
Consumers may be controlling more of their healthcare dollars, but those in digital health know who's keeping the industry afloat: doctors, hospitals and insurers. Providers and payers are still at the center of healthcare's money flow, say...


Final Stage 3 EHR rule is out, but HHS signals more changes ahead
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 6:00 PM
The Obama administration, under pressure to ease its mandates for the use of electronic health records, issued regulations for the current and final stages of its incentive program for the technology. But officials also acknowledged the new rules...


Three Southeast systems form community healthcare group
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 6:00 PM
Three health systems in the Southeast announced Tuesday that they are forming an alliance to improve community healthcare.


AmerisourceBergen to pay $2.5 billion for drug compounder PharMEDium
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:00 PM
AmerisourceBergen announced Tuesday that it has signed a $2.5 billion cash deal to buy PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, which provides compounded sterile preparations to acute-care U.S. hospitals.


ONC doesn't cover much new ground in revised interoperability road map
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:00 PM
The federal government has released its final vision on how to achieve widespread interoperability of electronic health-record systems. "The road map should be familiar to many who have been involved" thus far, ONC chief Dr. Karen...


Providers fret, insurers hail N.C. move to Medicaid managed care
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 11:55 AM
North Carolina's move toward Medicaid managed care has providers worried that patient care could suffer, but the recently signed law may allow regional provider-led groups to bid on the contracts.


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