Analysis of 3,100 sites shows that hospitals are using code to hide pages containing pricing data from being crawled by search engines, violating US federal law
Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows Tweets: @ericgeller , @annemariebridy , @sarahkliff , @d...
Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year
24 hours a day, 365 days a year Stephanie Mlot / PCMag : Amazon Care Health Service Expands Across the US This Summer Mehreen Kasana / Input : Amazon wants to be your healthcare provider Mayank Sharma...
As US COVID-19 cases surge, public health officials are battling broken, fragmented data systems, some relying on fax, that are seriously impeding progress
Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can't easily use. Tweets: @sarahkliff , @bymikebaker , @l...
Practice Fusion, which offers free, ad-supported health records software to doctors, agrees to pay $145M DOJ fine for its role in boosting opioid prescriptions
and the fact that this practice went on until 2019, years after the opioid crisis had become a full-blown national crisis, make it even more scandalous. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology E...
Report: US has spent $36B digitizing health records, which has risked patient safety with thousands of reports of deaths and injuries tied to software glitches
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Tweets: @erictopol , @ldrogen , @seemacms , @laware75 , @ros...
Crowdfunding for medical expenses on sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring is on the rise and could grow even further if more Americans become uninsured
Suzanne Woolley / Bloomberg : Tweets: @kamalaharris and @sarahkliff Tweets: Kamala Harris / @kamalaharris : Americans shouldn't have to turn to the internet and the kindness of strangers to pay for t...