by Keith Kuhn | Jun 19, 2014 | Industry
Like the plot from a “Godzilla” movie, two Western Pennsylvania behemoths, dominant health insurer Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and its Allegheny Health Network hospital system, which it acquired in 2013, and dominant health system University of...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 19, 2014 | Government
No sooner did Sylvia Matthews Burwell take over as Health and Human Services Secretary than a collection of telemedicine and mHealth associations asked her to eliminate some of the roadblocks to ubiquity. The groups did so by touting the potential $36 billion that...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 18, 2014 | Provider
Stalled research into a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes will move from the University of Pittsburgh to the rival Allegheny Health Network, where human trials could start in coming months. The research will be under the direction of Dr. Massimo Trucco, an...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 18, 2014 | Regulations
Industry stakeholders expect Reps. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, and John Larson, D-Conn., to lead a group of lawmakers in introducing a bill this week that would require HME providers to obtain bid bonds as part of the competitive bidding program. If a provider receives and...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 17, 2014 | Government
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, joined a number of stakeholders in urging newly-confirmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human...
