Will Tennessee’s PBM Bill Face the Same Fate as Arkansas’ Law?
Tennessee lawmakers recently passed a bill banning PBMs from owning pharmacies in the state, though like a similar Arkansas law, it is expected to face legal challenges if enacted.
Patients Across the Country Deserve Better Access to Healthcare
By focusing on integrating care teams, expanding community programs, and addressing SDoH through policy reform, we can create a healthcare system that serves all patients — especially those most in need.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Nashville Entrepreneur Center Gears Up for Virtual Care Delivery Conference September 21
Telehealth Academy III, a conference exploring the virtual care delivery landscape, will be one of the highlights of an inaugural week of events organized in the healthcare provider hub of Nashville, referred to as Nashville Healthcare Sessions.
HHS Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Vanderbilt’s Sharing of Transgender Patient Data
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is under federal investigation after it turned transgender patients’ medical records over to Tennessee’s attorney general. HHS launched the investigation a couple weeks after two VUMC patients filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital for releasing their records to the attorney general.
One Way To Improve Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Provide Training in Smaller Doses More Frequently
Executives from health systems and subject matter experts shared how they are contending with data security challenges, particularly training to change behavior and acquiring expertise in cybersecurity.
Understanding the Healthcare Cybersecurity War and How to Defend Against It
David Finn, CHIME Association Executive Healthcare and Information Sector, lead of the cybersecurity pavilion initiatives at ViVE 2023, does not mince words. With ransomware attacks surging to an all time high this month, Finn said in an interview that security is no longer a defensive posture; we are engaged in a war.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
Expanding Health Equity into Technology: A Preview of the Techquity Conversation at ViVE
The newly launched Techquity for Health Coalition from the HLTH Foundation will share findings from its first national survey of techquity at the conference. Healthcare leaders will also discuss on ways to improve health tech design, tech literacy, accessibility, workforce equity, patient trust, and equitable use of data.
Large Tennessee insurer makes telehealth coverage permanent
After most commercial insurers moved to expand their coverage of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, health systems are watching to see if the changes will become permanent. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee was one of the first to make the move, saying it would keep its expanded telehealth coverage.
IBM, Energy Department researchers tap supercomputer in fight against coronavirus
While the lead author of the study, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cautioned that the researchers had not found a cure for the virus that causes COVID-19, they were able to identify 77 compounds after screening more than 8,000 in a matter of days.
With $5M investment, Bridge Connector readies new product to tackle interoperability
The Tennessee-based startup said the product is designed to patch together disparate healthcare systems without extra coding or IT help.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Tennessee State Medicaid Chief: Block grant experiment would boost federal funding
Tennessee wants to be the first state to test a radical approach for federal financing of Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for low-income people.
Dental company SmileDirectClub files to go public
The company offers personalized 3-D printed clear aligners - essentially a form of transparent plastic braces - in a direct to consumer model that it touts as cheaper and more convenient than traditional options.
Nashville healthcare innovation fund Jumpstart Foundry adds 15 startups to its portfolio
The fund's latest cohort addresses issues like physician documentation burden, treatment for opioid addiction recovery and hand hygiene compliance, among others.
How healthcare organizations are fusing primary care and behavioral health
Montefiore in New York is equipping primary care patients with Valera's behavioral health app, while Cherokee Health Systems in Tennessee utilizes an integrated care model that involves a behavioral health consultant and a primary care doctor working on the same team.
Tennessee-based medical imaging company will pay $3M HIPAA settlement
Touchstone Medical Imaging has agreed to pay $3 million to HHS' Office for Civil Rights to settle a breach that exposed more than 300,000 patients' protected health information.