In July, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an ambitious plan to create a framework aimed at simplifying the exchange of healthcare data between patients and providers.

More than 100,000 individuals may have been impacted by a "data incident" where unauthorized Medicare beneficiary accounts were made using their information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries have recently learned that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach last year. This incident comes on the heels of another incident ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized the first HIPAA-adopted standards for electronic claims attachments and signatures, aiming to replace fax-based processes with secure, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. While it remains unclear what CMS will ultimately do, lessons ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In July, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an ambitious plan to create a framework aimed at ...