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21 Feb 2025
IRA fate will affect U.S. renewable energy projects
Companies have invested in renewable energy projects, from solar to geothermal. The Trump administration's focus on oil and gas may slow renewable energy research and advancement.
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21 Feb 2025
Palo Alto Networks vulnerabilities exploited in chained attack
The cybersecurity vendor urges customers to take immediate action to mitigate recently disclosed vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild.
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21 Feb 2025
Block storage and Kafka events come to Vast Data Platform
A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage.
Health IT News from the past 365 days
- 29 Feb 2024
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29 Feb 2024
MA Payment Reductions May Impact Value of Healthcare for Beneficiaries
The value of healthcare for beneficiaries, including supplemental benefits and premiums, could be negatively impacted if CMS finalizes the Advance Notice policies.
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29 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Models Predict Mortality Among Dementia Patients
New machine learning tools accurately predicted patient mortality at one, five, three, and 10 years across eight dementia subtypes.
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28 Feb 2024
New version of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware hits victims
An updated version of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware has been spotted in the wild amid a series of attacks on American healthcare providers, prompting a new alert from the authorities
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28 Feb 2024
75% of third-party breaches target software, IT supply chains
Data drawn from SecurityScorecard’s telemetry reveals how supply chain breaches are becoming a weapon of choice for threat actors
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28 Feb 2024
Users love their cyber teams, but find them frustrating
Despite strong support for security teams, a good number of ordinary workers see them as obstructive to business goals, and would like to see them operate more transparently
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28 Feb 2024
Regenstrief Updates LOINC with 800 Concepts for Health Data Exchange
LOINC release 2.77 reflects Regenstrief Institute’s work with partners like HL7 International and CMS to advance health data exchange across the care continuum.
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28 Feb 2024
A Third of Americans Say Racism Is a Major Problem in Healthcare
People with previous experiences of discrimination were more likely to agree that racism is a big problem for healthcare.
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28 Feb 2024
CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike
The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m
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28 Feb 2024
UnitedHealth Group Scrutinized for Alleged Antitrust Practices
The antitrust practices may have not only squashed competition with competitors, but also allowed the major payer to skirt around certain regulations.
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28 Feb 2024
Patient Collection Rate Falls to Nearly 48%
A new analysis shows a sharp decline in the patient collection rate in 2022 and 2023 as providers write off more bad debt from patients with insurance.
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28 Feb 2024
Digital Engagement with RPM Boosts Post-Discharge Care Coordination
A digital engagement program leveraging an RPM solution helped increase touch points between patients and clinicians following discharge, research reveals.
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28 Feb 2024
Early Prenatal Mental Health Interventions Reduce Postpartum Risks
An NIH-funded study based in Pakistan revealed that prenatal mental health counseling reduced postpartum depression and anxiety risk.
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28 Feb 2024
White House Commits to Ending Hunger, Diet-Related Illness by 2030
White House convened healthcare industry stakeholders and public and private enterprise in its commitment to ending diet-related illness.
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28 Feb 2024
Amgen Opens Its Most Advanced Manufacturing Site in Central Ohio
On February 26, Amgen announced the opening of its most advanced manufacturing site located in New Albany, Ohio.
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27 Feb 2024
Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns
More ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching
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27 Feb 2024
VulnCheck bug listing to help track new threats quicker
Exploit intelligence firm VulnCheck launches a proprietary Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in hopes of improving end-user access to intel on emerging threats and reaching those that the likes of CISA do not
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27 Feb 2024
Majority of UK employees ‘willingly gamble’ with security
Human-centric threats originating from employees continue to damage organisations both financially and reputationally, according to a report
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27 Feb 2024
HSCC Issues Five-Year Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
The five-year plan aims to improve the diagnosis of healthcare cybersecurity from “critical” to “stable” condition by 2029, HSCC said.
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27 Feb 2024
R1 RCM May Go Private After $5.8B Private Equity Offer
Private equity firm New Mountain Capital has reportedly offered to purchase R1 RCM for about $5.8B, prompting considerations of going private.
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27 Feb 2024
AMA Report Outlines Considerations for AI Integration in Healthcare
“The Emerging Landscape of Augmented Intelligence in Health Care” report provides an overview of risks and opportunities for clinicians looking to adopt AI.
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27 Feb 2024
Is SNAP the Solution to Healthcare’s Medication Adherence Woes?
Researchers indicated that SNAP benefits made it easier for patients to afford their drugs, eliminating cost-related medication adherence barriers.
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27 Feb 2024
Cybersecurity Preparedness Tied to Lower Insurance Premium Increases
Adoption of the NIST CSF was correlated with lower cyber insurance premium increases, KLAS and partners found in the latest edition of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study.
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27 Feb 2024
Cozy Bear and other APTs changing tack as cloud adoption increases
A change in APT tactics has been observed resulting from greater adoption of cloud-based services, according to the NCSC
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27 Feb 2024
Privately Insured Adults Are Satisfied With Health Plan Coverage
Privately insured adults in traditional plans were more satisfied with their health plan coverage than those in high-deductible plans.
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27 Feb 2024
NLP Framework Could Improve Medical Summarization Tools
Researchers have developed a framework to fine-tune the natural language processing models used in medical text summarization tools.
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27 Feb 2024
Pediatric Antidepressant Prescription Rates Increased 66%
A study in Pediatrics revealed that adolescent, teen, and young adult antidepressant prescription rates increased by 66% between January 2016 and December 2022.
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27 Feb 2024
Patient Portals & Open Notes Increase Referral Access by Up to 40%
Patients who log into their patient portals are 20% more likely to access a referral, while those who look at the portal and open notes are 40% more likely.
- 26 Feb 2024
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26 Feb 2024
HHS Delivers Reports to Congress on HIPAA Compliance, Enforcement
OCR stressed the need for additional funding to support its HIPAA compliance and enforcement efforts across the healthcare sector.
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26 Feb 2024
Making ACOs More Accessible for Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers
CMS must improve model alignment, financial methodology, quality measurement, and data-sharing to increase ACO participation among long-term and post-acute care providers.
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26 Feb 2024
Stakeholders Urge Congress to Take Early Action on Telehealth Access
In a letter to Congress, healthcare providers, trade associations, and virtual care companies emphasized the need for action on telehealth policy early in the year.
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26 Feb 2024
Care Access, Coverage Value Similar in Medicare Advantage and Medicare
Despite many similarities in care access, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries faced care delays due to prior approval requirements more often than those in traditional Medicare.
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26 Feb 2024
Epic Sepsis Model Predictions May Have Limited Clinical Utility
New study suggests that the Epic Sepsis Model may only identify some high-risk patients after sepsis is clinically recognized, rather than before infection onset.
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23 Feb 2024
ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware
ConnectWise ScreenConnect users who have yet to patch against a critical vulnerability are now being targeted by a barrage of cyber attacks, including ransomware
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23 Feb 2024
HHS Settles Ransomware Investigation With Behavioral Health Provider
This marks the second-ever ransomware settlement that OCR has reached with a covered entity over potential HIPAA violations following a ransomware attack.
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23 Feb 2024
GPT-4 Matches Ophthalmologists in Glaucoma, Retina Management
Mount Sinai researchers revealed that the large language model GPT-4 can match, and even outperform, human specialists in managing glaucoma or retina disease.
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23 Feb 2024
Digital Health Strategies Reduce High BP Among Underserved Groups
Research shows digital health interventions positively impacted hypertension control among vulnerable patients, including low-income and minority race groups.
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23 Feb 2024
Multiple Unsafe Sleep Factors Characterize SIDS Incidences
Across surface sharing and non-sharing infants, SIDS incidences included multiple unsafe sleep factors, identifying a need for robust education.
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23 Feb 2024
NIH Launches Cancer Screening Research Network for Early Detection
The NIH has launched the Cancer Screening Research Network to evaluate cancer screening methods and technologies, supporting the White House’s Cancer Moonshot.