Medicare: Why A Medicare Reformer Resigned?


One of the major figureheads responsible for transforming and virtually revolutionizing the Medicare system under the Obama administration has called it quits. Jonathan Blum is a Medicare director...

Obamacare enrollments exceed the 6 million mark!


The numbers of Americans who have signed up for Obamacare is now more than 6 million. Obamacare which is President Obama’s private health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act has been a...

Two Gamers Aim To Transform Hospital Performance Evaluation


Key evidence suggests that as hospital systems in the US reach a crisis point – involving the transition to value-based purchasing and tying Medicare and Medicaid dollars to performance – quality of...

AP Exclusive: Health law cybersecurity challenges


WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Obama administration raced to meet its self-imposed deadline for online health insurance markets, security experts working for the government worried that state computer...

Aetna CEO Bertolini Outlines ‘Creative Destruction’ Of Healthcare At HIMSS14


As CEO of Aetna – #312 on Forbes Global 2000 list – Mark Bertolini knows something about sustainability. According to his keynote at HIMSS14 earlier today, back in 2001, Aetna was losing $1...

Health Insurance Downgraded


It all began with the Affordable Care Act. The bringing into being of the program was inadequate. The enrollment was insufficient and there have been blunders at the source. Furthermore, the...

Medicare Budgetary Cuts May Prove Detrimental


While Obamacare is being given all the media hype and moral support from the Democrats, there are other older medical caregivers that are not being given any attention. The way things are going, the...
    






Cybersecurity chief had qualms over health website


HHS cybersecurity chief says health care website tests didn't follow security 'best practices' WASHINGTON (AP) — The top cybersecurity officer for the Health and Human Services...