Jeff Bendix, Senior Editor

A new survey from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases reveals Americans’ differing attitudes towards the diseases.

Health care organizations are reluctant to share patient data due to privacy concerns, and because they view data as a corporate asset.

Read on to learn the arguments for and against doctors getting MBAs.

Misinformation about the disease and vaccinations remains widespread, and correlated with party affiliation.

Until now, measures to prevent cardiovascular diseases have focused almost entirely on individual behavioral and metabolic risk factors.

The Information Blocking rule applies to many organizations.

Organizations covered by the Information Blocking Rule must comply with requests to share electronic health information.

Some relief from the high cost of prescription drugs may yet be part of President Biden’s social spending bill, and that would make a large majority of Americans happy.

The federal agency responsible for developing new health care payment models wants every fee-for-service Medicare beneficiary to be getting care from a provider who’s part of an accountable care organization by 2030.

Access to HIEs makes it much easier to respond to patients’ requests for their health data.

How HIEs can lower costs and improve quality of care.

Using information from an HIE has many benefits.

Study suggests legislation may be needed to help cope with financial burden.

The information blocking rule implemented in April 2021 requires all health care organizations to share patient information.

There are about 100 HIEs across the country.

Physicians can use HIEs in two ways.

How a practice joins an HIE depends on several factors.

HIEs can better treat patients with COVID-19.

The difference between directed and query-based HIEs.

Christopher Hobson, M.D., explains the background, purpose and functioning of HIEs.

Nearly 20% of health care support workers say they’ve experienced food insecurity.

Research shows walking can help middle age adults improve their health and live longer.

But support splits along party lines

A new survey ranks cities according to factors important to retirees.

185,000 adults with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were hospitalized in June and July. Of those, 182,000, or 98.3%, had not been vaccinated for the disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fully approved the Pfizer-BionTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in people age 16 and older.

How much more do Americans spend on prescription drugs than people in other countries?

About 50% of the country is not fully vaccinated, leading to concerns

Since 2018, ACA premiums have dropped in 35 states. Did your state make the cut?