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A one-minute look back at the week of February 2, 2015, in managed care, including another top resignation from a federal agency and budget proposals affecting Medicare and Medicaid.

With Anthem's security breach potentially compromising the personal information of current and former members, a timely report from the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that privacy remains the top concern of implementing mobile health technology.

The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations has teamed up with physicians, hospitals, medical associations, and almost all Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations in the country to pen a 36-page letter to CMS.

The 3D breast imaging system, developed at the University of Rochester, is currently approved for diagnosing cancer in women who have signs or symptoms of the disease, or who have abnormal findings after a standard screening mammogram.

Governor Bill Haslam's expansion plan had market-based elements, a way to cover the state's share, and a deal to leave early if it cost too much. But distrust of the federal government and the president in particular was too much to overcome.

Following an announcement that Medicare would cover preventive low dose computes tomography for lung cancer screening, CMS released a final national coverage determination today that includes details on eligibility criteria.

Anthem has a history of big security breaches. In 2010 an attack that disclosed information of more than 600,000 people cost the company $1.7 million in fines from HHS.

Anthem reported early Thursday that hackers infiltrated the company, potentially putting as many as 80 million customers' information at risk.

A study published in the journal Lancet Oncology, conducted by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, provides evidence for the value of introducing abiraterone prior to chemotherapy in these patients.

By combing through the electronic medical records of nearly all of Maine's 1.3 million residents and applying sophisticated modeling software, a computerized tool predicts which patients are most likely to land in the ER

The device, developed by a biomedical engineer at Columbia University to detect 3 infectious disease markers, was piloted by healthcare workers in Rwanda. The work, which received funding from the Gates Foundation and the World Bank, among others, was published in the recent issue of Science Translational Medicine.

The industry-academic partnership is expected to boost clinical trials on investigational drugs and outcomes research, in gynecological cancers.

As socioeconomic disparities have grown through Europe and North America, so have mental and physical health inequalities, according to a new paper published in The Lancet.

Making lifestyle changes is far more important to reducing cancer risk than avoiding food additives or worrying about genetics. But a survey by the American Institute of Cancer Research finds most people in the United States worry more about the things for which risks are unproven, while overlooking risks for which the science is clear.

Tennessee Gov Bill Haslam's plan to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act died Wednesday in the state Senate after it was voted down by the Health and Welfare Committee.

With several of it's blockbusters going off-patent soon, Pfizer is looking at new avenues for expanding it's revenue.

After nearly 6 years overseeing public health initiatives, Margaret Hamburg, MD, commissioner of the FDA will be stepping down, according to various sources.

Panelists at the annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology discussed efforts to holistically treat low-income or chronic care populations by taking social determinants of health into consideration.

A comprehensive study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that colorectal cancer survivors who smoke cigarettes were at more than twice the risk of death than non-smoking survivors.

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Although African Americans have had lower colon cancer survival rates over the past 2 decades compared with white patients, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found evidence-based care can remove the racial disparity.

In his blog post on FDAVoice, Peter Lurie MD, MPH, associate FDA commissioner for public health strategy and analysis, announced the introduction of a draft form and a draft guideline that can be used by a physician to request access to an experimental drug or biological product that is still under development.

The House passed a bill on Tuesday to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the first time in the new Congress, but Democrats appeared to show more zeal in defending the law than Republicans did in trying to get rid of it.

Children, the poor, African Americans, and those living in rental housing remain at higher risk of exposure to secondhand smoke, which CDC says kills 41,000 nonsmoking adults and 400 infants a year.

The report, according to ASCO, delineates responsibilities of different stakeholders towards ensuring responsible data sharing of trial results.

The efficacy of the CDK4/6 inhibitor was demonstrated in 165 postmenopausal women with ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who had not received previous treatment for advanced disease.

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology concluded that the failure rate was low with observation but was decreased significantly with the addition of radiotherapy.

During remarks at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Annual Meeting 2015, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced a new funding opportunity to achieve interoperability.

The study identified distinct methylation patterns between the aggressive and benign forms of TNBC, which could provide an improved understanding of disease outcome.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a comparatively small part of the federal budget, but its research priorities for FY 2016 affect areas that consume huge sums.