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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
Health IT News from the past 365 days
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12 Feb 2024
HHS, ONC Designate Additional QHINs for TEFCA Health Data Exchange
As QHINs, CommonWell Health Alliance and Kno2 can immediately begin supporting health data exchange under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).
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12 Feb 2024
$4M Grant to Fund Development of Sleep Apnea Outcome Prediction Tools
Mount Sinai researchers will use a $4 million NIH grant to investigate how artificial intelligence could advance outcome prediction for patients with sleep apnea.
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12 Feb 2024
Senate Hearing Challenges Pharma CEOs on Drug Pricing
On February 8th, CEOs from Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck were grilled by US senators about high prescription drug prices.
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12 Feb 2024
Akira Ransomware Aggressively Targets Healthcare, HC3 Warns
In the year since the group was first identified, Akira ransomware has claimed at least 81 victims, favoring healthcare and other critical infrastructure sectors.
- 12 Feb 2024
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12 Feb 2024
HHS Will Provide Technical Assistance to States Addressing Homelessness
Participating states have implemented Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations or other state plan amendments to improve access to housing-related services for those facing homelessness.
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12 Feb 2024
AI, VR ‘Therapist’ Demonstrates Potential for Mental Health Support
The eXtended-Reality Artificially Intelligent Ally combines generative AI and virtual reality to provide patients with self-administered, conversational therapy.
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12 Feb 2024
How Community Health Centers Support Transitions Out of Incarceration
Transitions of care out of incarceration are key to reducing recidivism, and community health centers are poised to spearhead those transitions.
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09 Feb 2024
Hospital Groups Rally Against HHS’ Interpretation of DSH Payments Formula
According to HHS, a patient is only entitled to SSI benefits if they receive cash SSI payments during a hospital stay, a warped interpretation that impacts DSH payments, hospital groups said.
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09 Feb 2024
Medicare Advantage Intake Surveys May Draw Insights, But Not Always
Some questions are better suited for telephonic surveys than others during the Medicare Advantage enrollment process.
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09 Feb 2024
Europe carves out niche in quantum computing
As the US, China and Europe accelerate investment in quantum computing, Europe is beginning to develop its own unique position in the fledgling global ecosystem
- 09 Feb 2024
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09 Feb 2024
AHIMA Launches Resource Hub for Non-Clinical AI Use in Healthcare
The American Health Information Management Association’s new resource hub aims to help healthcare professionals navigate non-clinical AI tools.
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09 Feb 2024
10% of Premature Births Linked to Phthalate Exposure In Utero
A study in the Lancet Planetary Health linked maternal phthalate exposure to adverse birth outcomes, including 10% of premature births.
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09 Feb 2024
47% of Trans Individuals Considered Moving Due to State Laws
An early insights report from a 2022 US Trans survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality revealed that state laws drove 47% of trans people to consider moving.
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09 Feb 2024
Half of Transgender Patients Report Bad Patient Experience
Poor patient experience ranged from being misgendered to having a provider use harsh or abusive language during treatment.
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08 Feb 2024
HHS Finalizes Changes to Substance Use Confidentiality Regulations
The final rule modified the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient Records regulations under 42 CFR part 2 to better align with HIPAA.
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08 Feb 2024
University of Wisconsin Researchers 3D Print Functional Brain Tissue
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin developed 3D-printed functional human brain tissue with implications for studying neurological or neurodevelopmental disorders.
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08 Feb 2024
University Hospital of Wales launches digital cardiology test requests
The Cardiff-based hospital is switching from a paper-based system to a digital service, which is integrated into the Welsh Clinical Portal
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08 Feb 2024
KLAS Highlights Top Security, Privacy Solutions This Year
Claroty, Protenus, and Fortified Health Security were among the security and privacy vendors ranked Best in KLAS for 2024.
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08 Feb 2024
KLAS Report Reveals Top-Performing Vendors for Payer Services
The top-performing vendors varied across payer services, with Zelis ranking high for payment accuracy and integrity and ZeOmega succeeding in care management.
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08 Feb 2024
AI Provides Personalized Treatment Strategies for Esophageal Cancer
New pharmacokinetic model recommends personalized treatment by analyzing differences among the signaling pathways in esophageal cancer.
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08 Feb 2024
GLP-1 Medication Use Is Linked with Lower Anxiety, Depression Rates
Epic Research published a study revealing a correlation between some GLP-1 drugs and lower diagnostic rates of anxiety and depression.
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07 Feb 2024
NCSC warns CNI operators over ‘living-off-the-land’ attacks
Malicious, state-backed actors may well be lurking in the UK’s most critical networks right now, and their operators may not even know until it is too late, warn the NCSC and its partners
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07 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Identifies Drug Candidates for Cardiac Fibrosis
Mechanistic machine learning tools can provide insights into how different drug candidates could minimize harmful scarring following a heart attack.
- 07 Feb 2024
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07 Feb 2024
US Fertility Reaches $5.75M Data Breach Settlement
US Fertility resolved a class action lawsuit following a 2020 ransomware attack and data breach that impacted nearly 900,000 individuals.
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07 Feb 2024
EHR Vendor Epic Wins 2024 Best in KLAS Overall Software Suite
The 2024 Best in KLAS report named EHR vendor Epic the top overall software suite, coming in ahead of MEDITECH and Oracle Health.
- 07 Feb 2024
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07 Feb 2024
Researchers Call for Outcome-Centric Approach to Health AI Regulation
University of California San Diego researchers argue that healthcare AI regulations should require developers to demonstrate how these tools impact patient outcomes.
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07 Feb 2024
How Do Payers Cover COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests Post-PHE?
Public and private payers generally offer some coverage of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests, but cost-sharing requirements vary.
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07 Feb 2024
2023 Healthcare Bankruptcies Reached Highest Level in 5 Years
There were 79 healthcare bankruptcies in 2023, 12 of which had liabilities over $500 million.
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06 Feb 2024
UK’s McPartland Cyber Review to probe trust in technology
The UK government has launched a cyber security review that will investigate how best to give businesses the confidence they need to use new technologies
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06 Feb 2024
OCR Reaches $4.75M Settlement With NY Health System
OCR reached a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center over potential HIPAA Security Rule violations that occurred over a decade ago.
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06 Feb 2024
How a Primary Care-Based Housing Instability Program Cut Outpatient Utilization
The housing instability program reduced primary care visits by 2.5 visits and outpatient visits by 3.6.
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06 Feb 2024
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Reduce 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure
Data from the SURMOUNT-1 study on tirzepatide revealed that it can reduce 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure.
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06 Feb 2024
Revenue Cycle Management, AI Take Center Stage in 2024
As CFOs expect profitability increases, revenue cycle management and tech investments become top priorities.
- 06 Feb 2024
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06 Feb 2024
Women with PCOS Are Almost 8.5 Times More Likely to Attempt Suicide
Even after adjusting for multiple factors, including psychiatric comorbid conditions, women with PCOS are at a significantly higher risk of attempted suicide.
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05 Feb 2024
ONC, SAMHSA Launch Initiative for Behavioral Health IT Interoperability
The agencies will work together to invest $20 million of SAMHSA funds over the next three years to advance behavioral health IT interoperability standards.
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05 Feb 2024
HHS Launches 3 Public-Private Partnerships for Food Is Medicine Efforts
The partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Feeding America will focus on research on and implementation of food is medicine programs nationwide.
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05 Feb 2024
Ransomware Makes ECRI’s Top Health Tech Hazards List
The threat of ransomware and the risks of third-party web analytics software on patient confidentiality were among ECRI’s top health tech hazards of 2024.
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05 Feb 2024
Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Loss Tied to Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs
Out-of-pocket costs increased by 700 percent for beneficiaries who experienced a temporary loss of their Medicare Part D low-income subsidy.
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05 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Tool Predicts Heart Failure Treatment Response
New machine learning approach may help identify and predict diuretic responsiveness among patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
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05 Feb 2024
Gender-Affirming Care Access Laws Affect 38% of Trans Youth
There are gender-affirming care access restrictions in 23 states, which affects 38 percent of trans youth in the US.
- 02 Feb 2024
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02 Feb 2024
Preterm and Early-Term Birth Rates in the US Increased Since 2014
An analysis of the births by gestational age indicated a shift toward shorter gestational age as the rates of preterm and early-term births increased since 2014.
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02 Feb 2024
HCSC Announces $3.3B Cigna Medicare Business Acquisition
Barring regulatory or conditional challenges, the payer expects the acquisition to be finalized in early 2025.
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02 Feb 2024
Predictive Model Accurately Tracks Alzheimer's Disease Progression
The DETree framework combines Alzheimer’s progression modeling with individual prediction to forecast how a patient’s disease may develop over time.
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02 Feb 2024
Breaking Down the Cost of Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapies
As CMS attempts to navigate the astronomical costs of new sickle cell disease treatments, including gene therapy, it is critical to break down treatment costs.
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02 Feb 2024
Hospital Finances Approach Pre-Pandemic Levels
2023 was a much more promising year for hospitals as margins improved by more than 15% compared to the previous year, Kaufman Hall reports.
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02 Feb 2024
Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat
At-home medical devices can be confusing to use, posing a potential patient safety hazard, but experts say patient education and user-centered design could help.
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01 Feb 2024
HHS Final Rule to Solidify Access to OUD Medications via Telehealth
The agency plans to make permanent pandemic-era flexibilities, including expanding telehealth access to medications for opioid use disorder.
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01 Feb 2024
Hospital Outpatient Departments Preserve Care Access for Rural Patients
Rural populations receiving care at hospital outpatient departments tend to be dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and have complex health conditions.
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01 Feb 2024
CDC Data Raises Concerns About Rising Syphilis Cases
A CDC analysis of STI data from 2022 prompts concerns about rising syphilis cases despite chlamydia cases stabilizing and gonorrhea cases declining over the past year.
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01 Feb 2024
Mislabeled Packaging Results in Recalled ADHD Medication
Last week, Azurity Pharmaceuticals issued a voluntary recall of Zenzedi, an ADHD and narcolepsy medication, due to mislabeled packaging.
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01 Feb 2024
Lawmakers Lobby for Payment and Policy Stability in Medicare Advantage
The group of senators called for payment and policy stability in Medicare Advantage in the wake of new marketing, competition, and prior authorization standards.
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31 Jan 2024
CMS Proposes 3.7% Increase in Medicare Advantage Plan Payments
In addition to an increase in Medicare Advantage plan payments, CMS proposed updates to the Part D risk adjustment model and star ratings.
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31 Jan 2024
VA Cuts Homelessness, SDOH by 55% with Housing First Model
The crux of VA’s housing first model was the addition of wraparound care and social services to address homelessness and other SDOH.
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31 Jan 2024
Vertex Non-Opioid Drug Is an Effective Pain Management Medication
Vertex Pharmaceutical announced the positive results from a phase 3 clinical trial on VX-548, a non-opioid pain management drug, in a press announcement.
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31 Jan 2024
Epic Study Finds Health Data Exchange Lowers Risk of Code Blue
In patients with a higher level of acuity in the ED, the presence of outside health data is linked to a 34 to 63 percent reduced risk of a code blue event, an Epic study found.
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31 Jan 2024
How Affordability Challenges Reveal Care Disparities for ESI Members
Although some populations were more likely to utilize services like mental healthcare or preventive care, care disparities showed up in their affordability challenges.
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31 Jan 2024
Healthcare Administrative Spending Increased by 50%
Staffing shortages, security challenges, and increased time needed to conduct transactions are behind a significant rise in healthcare administrative spending, CAQH reports.
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31 Jan 2024
Insurance Broker Data Breach Impacts 1.5M Individuals
Keenan & Associates suffered a data breach in August 2023 that potentially exposed some client health information.
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31 Jan 2024
Safeguards Needed for Generative AI EHR Data Summarization
A viewpoint published in JAMA notes that EHR data summarization LLMs could perpetuate bias, underscoring the need for FDA oversight.
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31 Jan 2024
Lawmakers Call on HHS to Collaborate on Telehealth Access Policies
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and Congressional branches are urging HHS to work with them to ensure that expanded access to telehealth is not curtailed.
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31 Jan 2024
Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare
New Deloitte survey suggests that healthcare leaders must focus on data, governance, consumers, and the workforce to successfully implement generative AI.
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31 Jan 2024
Are Consumers Left Behind in Healthcare’s Generative AI Talks?
While focus on data quality and regulatory compliance is high, the consumer perspective is missing from healthcare’s talks of generative AI.
- 30 Jan 2024
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30 Jan 2024
Discontinued Treatment for GHD Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
Human growth hormone injections derived from cadaver pituitary glands were linked to non-contagious, transmittable Alzheimer’s disease in patients with GHD.
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30 Jan 2024
After Slowdown, ACO Participation in Shared Savings Program Grows
ACO participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program grows to 480 participants, while 245 organizations are in two Innovation Center models.
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30 Jan 2024
No Surprises Act Prevented 10M Surprise Medical Bills, But IDR Use Grows
An estimated 670,000 commercial claims were submitted to the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process last year.
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30 Jan 2024
PJ&A Data Breach Fallout Continues, 4M Additional Individuals Impacted
Concentra Health Services reported a nearly 4 million-record data breach to HHS stemming from a previously disclosed data breach at Perry Johnson & Associates, a medical transcription company.
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30 Jan 2024
Machine Learning, ‘Liquid Biopsy’ to Bolster Early Cancer Detection
Researchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.
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30 Jan 2024
Patient-Provider Communication About Dementia Left Wanting
Social stigma, among other barriers, get in the way of patient-provider communication about dementia, but there are key strategies to overcome that.
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29 Jan 2024
Data Augmentation May Improve LLM Generalization on Clinical Notes
Using large language models in a healthcare domain-informed manner could address dataset shifts and enhance generalizability in AI-driven medical note analysis.
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29 Jan 2024
73% of Digital Health Companies Use Standards-Based EHR APIs
While most digital health companies use standards-based EHR APIs for EHR integration, nearly the same number of companies reported the use of proprietary EHR APIs.
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29 Jan 2024
FL Bill Seeks to Reduce Cyber Incident Liability For Entities That Meet Industry Standards
Under the Cybersecurity Incident Liability Act, Florida businesses would not be liable in connection with a cybersecurity incident provided they comply with certain cyber standards.
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29 Jan 2024
State Changes to Telehealth Policy Appear to be Stagnating
Last year, most states only tweaked their telehealth policies and laws, showing progress toward a more flexible telehealth landscape has slowed, per a new report.
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29 Jan 2024
HHS Seeks Stakeholder Input to Improve Medicare Advantage Transparency
The request for information seeks feedback on access to care, provider networks, and competition in the Medicare Advantage program.
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29 Jan 2024
UC San Diego Risk Stratification AI Predicts Sepsis, Reduces Mortality
UC San Diego Health’s artificial intelligence tool to predict sepsis infection risk in emergency department patients has reduced mortality by 17 percent.
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29 Jan 2024
What’s Driving Pediatric Use of Urgent Care & Retail Health?
The number of kids visiting an urgent care or retail health clinic increased from 21% in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, CDC said.
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26 Jan 2024
Researchers Observe Increase in Emerging Ransomware Groups Targeting Healthcare
Healthcare used to be an off-limits sector for ransomware groups, but emerging ransomware gangs were not afraid to target the sector in 2023, GuidePoint Security observed.
- 26 Jan 2024
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26 Jan 2024
Artificial Intelligence Models May Enhance Immunotherapy Treatments
Research findings from Cleveland Clinic and IBM demonstrated how AI models can better show how immune systems recognize threats, which may improve immunotherapies.
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26 Jan 2024
CBT Reduced Frontal and Parietal Activity in Children with Anxiety
An NIH study tracking brain activity in children with anxiety revealed that cognitive behavioral therapy reduced previously elevated activity in the frontal and parietal lobes.
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26 Jan 2024
Patients Maintain Weight Loss One Year After Discontinuing GLP-1 Drugs
An Epic Research study evaluating the long-term effects of GLP-1 drugs noted that patients maintained weight loss for one year after stopping semaglutide and liraglutide.
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25 Jan 2024
Pennsylvania HIEs, Health IT Vendor Partner on SDOH Referral Tool
Health IT vendor findhelp and Pennsylvania's Consortium of HIEs are creating a platform called PA Navigate that aims to improve SDOH referrals and drive health equity across the state.
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25 Jan 2024
Eli Lilly Gene Therapy Restores Hearing Within 30 Days
Eli Lilly recently announced the success of their gene therapy for genetic hearing loss, noting it had restored hearing in a pediatric patient within 30 days.
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25 Jan 2024
Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector
Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
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25 Jan 2024
Tony Blair Institute calls for creation of NHS Data Trust
The NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
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25 Jan 2024
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Ease Telemental Healthcare Access
The legislation would lift the requirement that Medicare beneficiaries seeking telehealth for mental health conditions first have an in-person visit.
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25 Jan 2024
Survey Reveals Revenue Cycle Management Concerns for 2024
As challenges persist, half of healthcare leaders plan to invest in new revenue cycle management technology in the next 12 to 18 months.
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25 Jan 2024
ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions
A machine learning model outperformed standard tools for predicting death and other serious complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
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25 Jan 2024
Healthcare Workers Urge Health Systems to Address Climate Change
A survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed that approximately 80% of clinicians believe their hospitals should be working to address climate change and its climate impact.
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24 Jan 2024
WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
- 24 Jan 2024
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24 Jan 2024
Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients
The analysis of Medicaid enrollees showed that Black patients had higher preventable hospitalization rates for heart failure than their White counterparts.
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24 Jan 2024
NY Charges Midwife $300K for Falsifying Vaccine Records
New York State Department of Health issued Nassau County midwife $300K for falsifying vaccine records and administering nearly 12,500 fake immunizations.
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24 Jan 2024
AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC
The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks