Tackling healthcare’s female leadership problem at HIMSS21
Women are largely absent from most healthcare companies’ C-suites where major decisions are made, despite their massive influence as consumers and workers in the industry.
Women are largely absent from most healthcare companies’ C-suites where major decisions are made, despite their massive influence as consumers and workers in the industry.
But the proposal, which features several familiar and long-debated policy ideas, could face an uphill battle in Congress as the drug industry lines up against it.
DeVivo hinted at joint R&D with tech behemoth Microsoft, a future API marketplace and where Teladoc sees virtual visits stabilizing post-pandemic.
For example, significant racial gaps in receiving vaccinations remain, despite the ongoing push to inoculate a greater swath of the U.S. population as the delta variant contributes to surging COVID-19 cases.
Roy Jakobs caught up with Healthcare Dive virtually on the sidelines of HIMSS21 to chat about provider burden, interoperability and new product launches.
The virtually integrated healthcare giant is working with Teladoc to offer the program, which combines telehealth services and access to in-person visits with providers in the CVS Health-Aetna network.
Healthcare employers need to consider how to make front-line caregiving a more sustainable career, and how they’ll leverage technology to accomplish that — all while the workforce suffers significant burnout, experts said.
“I don’t think there’s a single yes or no,” said Michael Coates, former chief information security officer for Twitter.
After acquiring Mission Health System in 2019, the hospital operator has continued tactics of all-or-nothing arrangements with payers and gag clauses, driving up prices and insurance premiums, the class action complaint alleges.
The fact that HHS has yet to codify appropriate disincentives for providers found guilty of information blocking is probably the “biggest gap to be filled on the enforcement side,” Tripathi said.