Tag Archives: Healthcare

How to read between the lines of the healthcare data blocking debate

About a year ago, the Department of Health and Human Services first proposed rules to promote sharing and the interoperability of health data to enable patients to electronically access their health information. Many of the top industry players submitted commentary to The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for… Read More »

Healthcare Consumers Lack Knowledge Of Basic Health Insurance Terms

Customer in pharmacy holding medicine bottle. Getty Some of you may remember home economics classes, now called family and consumer sciences. Although nutrition, cooking, and healthy living featured prominently in these classes, one of the items taught was personal finance and budgeting. A dwindling number of middle and high schools offer family and consumer science… Read More »

Daily on Healthcare: Deadline Wednesday for cigarette warning label comments

Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what’s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $ 1.00 an issue! DEADLINE AHEAD ON CIGARETTE WARNING LABELS: Here’s another item to watch in the U.S. government’s battle against nicotine addiction: How… Read More »

HIV-positive British living in Spain could lose healthcare post-Brexit

(Reuters Health) – British citizens with HIV who live in Spain could face serious healthcare challenges in the event of a no-deal Brexit, potentially risking public health at large, researchers say. A no-deal Brexit could leave many patients with HIV or other chronic conditions in the lurch after 2020, authors Jean McHale from the University… Read More »