NC Health News
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Though HCA made improvements to the western North Carolina health care system, according to the Wake Forest University report, many were already planned or required by then-Attorney General Josh Stein as part of the terms of the sale. [I]t
The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 30, 2025
By LEONARD D AVOLIO The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has drawn attention to Americans frustration with the for profit healthcare insurance industry. It was to keep sick people from going bankrupt while helping keep the lights on at not-for-profit hospitals. The number of Americans with health insurance skyrockets.
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NC Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate.
Smart Data Collective
JULY 10, 2019
Big data is changing the nature of healthcare. More than 15,000 hospitals around the world collect real-time data on their patients. Digitization will improve the accuracy of predictions and efficiency of the healthcare system. What challenges does an unstoppable, but necessary process imply for the healthcare system?
The Health Care Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
I’ll briefly summarize each and then try to apply them to healthcare. Kelly suggests trying to picture the “history” of an imagined future, the steps required to get to X in year YYYY, so that we can understand “What kinds of technology and laws and social expectations needed to be in place year by year in order to arrive at that state.”
Smart Data Collective
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Like all other sectors, the healthcare industry collects, stores and uses data. The market for big data in the global healthcare sector is expected to reach $42.8 However, most of the same principles apply to other countries’ healthcare systems. The NHS follows the laws related to data privacy. billion by 2024.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 16, 2019
HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color. We can all agree on that.
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