Healthcare industry leaders think there is much to learn from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and they hope the sector can apply these lessons to prevent a hack like this from ever happening again. Overall, the chaotic aftermath of the attack underscores the dire need for a more unified approach to cybersecurity within the healthcare sector.
The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
The $100 million investment will sponsor 10,000 clinicians from underrepresented racial groups who are pursuing or advancing careers in healthcare. It is the single largest philanthropic commitment ever made by the United Health Foundation.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
In both word and action, the Biden administration has ushered in an aggressive new era of antitrust enforcement. Less than a year in, administration leaders have rescinded previous antitrust guidelines, sometimes without explicit replacement, and stopped pending mergers dead in their tracks. It is difficult to cast judgment on so broad a policy shift, but […]
UnitedHealth's 2020 revenue jumped by $15 billion from the year before. As the payer gears up for 2021, leaders except to see demand for telehealth and online pharmacies continue, driving their focus on these services.
UnitedHealth just joined the California exchange this year, and it only had about 1,200 enrollees so the immediate impact on overall coverage numbers is minimal.
A pilot program by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is underway that will seek a new payment model for head and neck cancers, marking one of the first bundled payment initiatives specifically focused on cancer. The shift away from the fee-for-service model has largely been applied to primary […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Optum Labs, co-founded by the Mayo Clinic and Optum, announced four additional partners to its big data sharing effort in an attempt to find improvements in healthcare: Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, Medica Research Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore and Merck. Optum Labs, which is a division of UnitedHealthGroup’s Optum, is currently […]
Optum Labs, an ambitious data-sharing effort between some of the biggest payers and providers, is picking up steam, gaining new partnerships that collectively could be a massive source of revealing information for nearly all corners of the healthcare sector. What started as a collaboration between Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, and the Mayo Clinic […]
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is poised to acquire digital health company Audax Health Solutions according to a filing with the Federal Trade Commission. The move reflects a growing priority among payers to develop and add tools to boost member engagement. Audax Health Solutions uses an interface that makes its healthcare assessment and challenge tools feel […]
At a closed White House meeting in April, President Barack Obama told corporate insurance bosses “we’re all in this together” on implementing his signature health law. But some insurance companies seem to be more in than others. At least five Blue Cross and Blue Shield executives sat at the table of about a dozen CEOs […]
In what is being billed as likely the first large-scale analysis of privately insured patients, a new report from UnitedHealth Group finds that high-quality care was more affordable on average compared with care that had no tie to quality and performance incentives. The report, published in the special September issue of Health Affairs, focuses on […]