L.A. Care Health Plan

Fierce Healthcare | July 16, 2018

Primary care doctors are supposedly at the backbone of efforts to curb runaway health spending in the U.S. by preventing patients from developing serious—and costly—health concerns. But with primary care physicians in short supply and projections showing the problem will only worsen, one health insurer announced plans to throw millions of dollars into preventing further shortages of doctors at the safety net facilities that treat its members. The publicly operated L.A. Care Health Pl...

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...

Managed Healthcare Executive | January 15, 2020

Ride Health, providing smarter transportation for every patient need, announced they raised $6.2 million in a funding round led by Activate Venture Partners. The capital raise is joined by Newark Venture Partners, Anthro Ventures, BioAdvance, Leading Edge Ventures and Startup Health, according to a news release from Cision PR Newswire. Ride Health will use the funds in an initiative of ensuring every patient, everywhere, has access to the care and resources they need to ensure good health. Ride ...

Health Data Management | January 14, 2020

Tech giant Google continues to face criticism for the company’s reported efforts to obtain the health records of millions of Americans without their awareness or consent. A Wall Street Journal article published on Saturday, entitled “Inside Google’s Quest for Millions of Medical Records,” reported how the vendor has struck deals with some of the largest U.S. healthcare providers as part of a concerted effort gain access to troves of patient data. In just a few years, the ...