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HCA | April 22, 2020

When it comes to knowing how COVID-19 will shape the future of healthcare, HCA Healthcare doesn't claim to have any special insight into how it will play out. Leaders of the Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare giant went above and beyond to hedge their projections on an earnings call with analysts Tuesday, saying they'd withdrawn their guidance for the rest of the year. "Given this is an ongoing and unprecedented public health event, there are just too many unknowns to provide any...

HITInfrastructure | January 28, 2020

A host of major payer and provider organizations recently invested in a health analytics company focused on tackling social determinants of health (SDOH).Socially Determined recently announced that it has closed its Series A investment round raising a total of $11.1 million. The Washington, DC-based healthcare technology startup had supporters including Healthworx, the corporate investment and innovation arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Lafayette General Health. Existing investors in t...

HHS | April 28, 2020

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has filed an appeal to reinstate a key rule that handles overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, arguing a lower court's ruling was based on a flawed premise. The appeal, filed Thursday in the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, could decide how much money MA plans, an increasingly lucrative market for insurers, will have to give back to Medicare for diagnosis errors. HHS argues that an earlier ruling ...

Healthcare IT News | March 04, 2020

New Jersey-based Holy Name Health is set to launch Harmony EHR, a new electronic health record system developed at the 361-bed hospital in collaboration with Medicomp. The platform, powered by Medicomp's Quippe Clinical Data Engine, will officially go live later this spring in the hospital's emergency department, with an expansion planned later in the year. Holy Name Health counts nearly 4,000 employees and admits about 30,000 patients each year, and currently uses multiple EHR platforms...