Idaho news and information

BOISE, Idaho—In a case that will help define how antitrust regulators view hospital acquisitions of doctor practices for years to come, the Federal Trade Commission is scheduled to open a four-week civil trial in Idaho this week in an attempt to unwind the purchase of the state’s...
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Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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The Idaho Legislature will not get its wish for a health insurance exchange website built by and for Idahoans. Not in the first year, anyway. The Legislature's decision simply came too late.
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HHS has allowed states to spend billions more on Medicaid pilot projects in recent years than the agency's own rules allow, and the problem may grow in the future, according to a new federal audit.
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Maybe Scott Carrell was born to health information technology leadership, or maybe it was thrust upon him. Or possibly both.
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Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with HHS' Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic.
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The Idaho Health Data Exchange and St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho, have launched eHealth Technologies' Image Exchange, a system that allows data exchange members to instantly access, view and collaborate on diagnostic images through the Web.
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LOS ANGELES—Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health agreed to pay $14.1 million to resolve allegations that it improperly compensated physicians who referred patients to the system's White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. White Memorial also agreed to enter a five-year corporate...
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Veterans from Wyoming and Idaho soon will be able to get their memory checked remotely by St. John's Institute for Cognitive Health. The Jackson, Wyo., clinic plans to purchase an $8,000 telemedicine system and virtually connect to veterans affairs clinics in Aspen, Colo., and Pocatello and Idaho...
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Hospitals have been gobbling up physician practices at a rapid clip in recent years, raising concern among antitrust regulators that some of the acquisitions will lead to monopolistic practices such as price gouging. Yet the government still hasn't brought a single case to trial, which would...
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