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25 Mar 2025
UK regulator consults on enabling direct satellite to mobile comms
UK to be first country in Europe to move ahead with plans to enable satellite calls to be made from standard smartphones, with people and businesses in hard-to-reach areas set to benefit most
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25 Mar 2025
Providers don't see better quality under value-based payments
Primary care providers do not see the benefits of value-based payments on quality of care at the organizational level as many report increased workloads and moral distress.
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25 Mar 2025
Nokia, Numana, Honeywell Aerospace team to advance quantum-safe networks
Collaboration designed to drive innovation and enable a global post-quantum security economy for enterprises using quantum key distribution and advanced cryptographic network technologies to safeguard digital infrastructure
Health IT News from the past 365 days
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28 Mar 2024
CMS proposes 2.8% payment rate boost for inpatient rehabilitation facilities
The agency also proposed adding, removing, and adjusting measures in the inpatient rehabilitation facility quality reporting program.
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28 Mar 2024
Healthcare security culture steadily improving, but gaps remain
Healthcare security culture maturity gaps can make the sector vulnerable to increased cyber risk, KnowBe4’s Security Culture Report suggests.
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28 Mar 2024
Hospital financial performance off to a strong start
New data from Kaufman Hall shows a median monthly operating margin index of nearly 4% in February 2024, building on several months of positive margins.
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28 Mar 2024
Online big data dashboard to help map enteric infectious diseases
The Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory dashboard aims to shed light on the global public health threat of diarrheal diseases in children.
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28 Mar 2024
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs reached $5.7 billion in 2022
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs may continue rising as demand surges and coverage expands.
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28 Mar 2024
FDA issues warning letters for unapproved topical pain relief products
The FDA issued warning letters to six companies, highlighting the dangers of unauthorized topical pain relief products and warning consumers.
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27 Mar 2024
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
Data stolen from an earlier attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been leaked by a ransomware gang that claims to be in possession of much more content
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
Despite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
Analysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime
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27 Mar 2024
Chronic care access limits diagnosis & quality for women
It takes women more than a year longer to get a diagnosis than men, spelling out an issue with chronic care access and clinical quality.
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27 Mar 2024
HHS offers resource guide to providers impacted by Change Healthcare cyberattack
The guidance document consists of health plan contact information to help providers bridge communication gaps as they work to recover from the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
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27 Mar 2024
CMS final rule aims to simplify Medicaid, CHIP enrollment, coverage
The CMS final rule updated renewal and enrollment policies and sought to eliminate practices that cause coverage disruptions.
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27 Mar 2024
Primary care delivery is similar across all Medicare patient mixes
The rate of social needs screenings was low among primary care physicians serving primarily Medicare Advantage patients and those serving traditional Medicare patients.
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27 Mar 2024
Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE
The Carequality interoperability framework facilitates the exchange of over 745,000,000 documents every month across disparate HIE networks, regions, and technologies.
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27 Mar 2024
Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge
Patient satisfaction scores were lower when patients did not receive good post-discharge notes and communication.
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27 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, uptake
New study suggests that principles of behavioral economics – such as risk aversion – may have a significant impact on attitudes around vaccination and immunization.
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27 Mar 2024
SCOTUS to issue a decision on mifepristone in the coming months
Following yesterday’s hearing, experts predict that SCOTUS will issue a final ruling on mifepristone access in the coming months, likely siding with the FDA.
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27 Mar 2024
Transplant teams are less likely to accept donor hearts for Black men
An analysis of transplant center teams’ donor heart acceptances revealed that Black men on the wait list had the lowest probability of acceptance.
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27 Mar 2024
2024 MIPS Changes and Their Impact on Emergency Medicine
CMS continues to shift the MIPS reporting process with a new model specifically designed to align with physician specialties, like emergency medicine.
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26 Mar 2024
Shareholders win when businesses do better at cyber
The more advanced a company’s cyber security performance, and the more engaged its board is with security issues, the greater the return for shareholders, a report has found
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26 Mar 2024
Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022
Although still one of the least-visited alternative care sites, retail health clinic utilization soared between 2021 and 2022.
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26 Mar 2024
NHS SBS launches digital advisory framework
The Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement aims to provide a way for health and care organisations to get help with digital transformation and skills
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26 Mar 2024
Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools
Interviewed customers of clinical communication vendors PerfectServe, TigerConnect, and Baxter reported the highest levels of EHR integration in a new KLAS report.
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26 Mar 2024
HC3 alerts shed light on two popular healthcare cyberattack tactics
Recent HC3 sector alerts warned healthcare organizations of email bombing and credential harvesting, both of which may be used to enable healthcare cyberattacks.
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26 Mar 2024
Deep learning model detects COVID-19 infection using lung imaging
A deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images.
- 26 Mar 2024
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26 Mar 2024
Tax breaks higher than community investments for most non-profit hospitals
Non-profit hospitals spent an average of 3.87 percent of their budgets on community investments in 2021.
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26 Mar 2024
Digital maternal health tools hold promise, but equity question remains
Patients are using digital maternal health tools to manage care, but racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to point out cultural competence issues.