Artificial intelligence assistants could ease the transition to value-based care for primary care practices, a new report by Phyx Primary Care found. VBC can be administratively burdensome due to its enhanced reporting requirements. Primary care practices report that the transition to VBC is often long and results in a mix of VBC and fee-for-service billing practices.
Oracle Health Information Network, a subsidiary of Oracle Health, has been accepted as a candidate Qualified Health Information Network — or QHIN — under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. The framework, known as TEFCA, is a federal initiative designed to establish nationwide standards for sharing electronic health records. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology oversees the program, which aims to reduce health data fragmentation by allowing different systems to communicate more easily and securely.
For the healthcare industry, this crisis isn't just about financial risk — it's about consumer trust. When patients can't afford care, they disengage, often convinced the system isn't built for them. And when trust erodes, so do outcomes — because people who don't trust the system are less likely to seek care at all. Medicaid was meant to be the solution. Then came the Affordable Care Act. But while the uninsured rate in America has reached historic lows, the financial burden on patients continues to rise.
The Trump administration has issued new draft guidance for the third cycle of Medicare drug price negotiations. The proposals seek to boost transparency in the program and put a focus on negotiating for the drugs that come at the highest cost to Medicare. The agency is also aiming to avoid negative impacts from the negotiated prices on U.S.-based pharmaceutical innovation, according to an announcement.
On Friday, a San Francisco-based startup received FDA approval for the first-ever at-home cervical cancer test. The company, named Teal Health, was founded in 2020 and has raised $23 million. The startup has developed an at-home cervical cancer screening kit, which seeks to give patients an alternative to the in-office pap smear.
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