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21 Jan 2025
How smartphones are transforming global health
Shyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools
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21 Jan 2025
Intel Foundry gains new defense clients for 18A process
Intel Foundry secured defense contracts with Trusted Semiconductor Solutions and Reliable MicroSystems, highlighting confidence in its 18A manufacturing process.
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21 Jan 2025
Threat actors abusing Microsoft Teams in ransomware attacks
Sophos researchers observed two separate threat campaigns in which attackers used Microsoft Teams to pose as IT support personnel and gain access to victims' systems.
Health IT News from the past 365 days
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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
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
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
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.
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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.
- 26 Jan 2024
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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
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24 Jan 2024
HHS Unveils Healthcare Cybersecurity Performance Goals
The voluntary cybersecurity performance goals follow HHS’ recently released healthcare cybersecurity concept paper and provide a roadmap for improving security across the sector.
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24 Jan 2024
NYC Partners with Non-Profit to Relieve $2B in Medical Debt for Residents
New York City residents with low incomes and substantial medical debt will experience one-time debt relief through the partnership.
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24 Jan 2024
Mississippi Health System Suffers Ransomware Attack, 253K Individuals Impacted
Ransomware attacks, theft, and unauthorized access were the causes of several recent data breaches reported to HHS recently.
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24 Jan 2024
UnitedHealth Group Saw Revenue and Enrollment Growth in 2023
UnitedHealth Group’s revenue increased by more than $47 billion, with UnitedHealthcare and Optum both seeing growth.
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24 Jan 2024
Precision Medicine Tool May Enhance Pancreatic Cancer Outcome Prediction
Cedars-Sinai’s Molecular Twin Precision Oncology Platform has outperformed the only FDA-approved test to predict pancreatic cancer survival.
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24 Jan 2024
CDC States JN.1 Accounts for Nearly 90% of Circulating COVID Variants
A recent CDC update on respiratory viruses, including influenza and COVID-19, revealed that JN.1 is the most prevalent COVID variant.
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24 Jan 2024
55% of Rural Orgs Lack Labor & Delivery, Cause Maternity Deserts
Experts may consider staffing and reimbursement policies to alleviate the nation’s growing maternity desert and care access problems.
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23 Jan 2024
Treat cyber risk like financial or legal issue, says UK government
UK government and NCSC launch proposed code of practice on cyber security governance to help directors and business leaders toughen their defences
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23 Jan 2024
Leak of 26 billion records may prove to be ‘mother of all breaches’
The discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people
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23 Jan 2024
UCLA Releases Public-Access Surgical Outcomes Database for AI Training
The new Medical Informatics Operating Room Vitals and Events Repository is set to advance the development of AI algorithms to predict surgical outcomes.
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23 Jan 2024
OOP Costs Greater for Cancer Patients in High-Deductible Health Plans
After switching to a high-deductible health plan, out-of-pocket costs increased by 68.1 percent for patients with cancer relative to those in traditional plans.
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23 Jan 2024
Threat Actors Abuse ScreenConnect Access to Target Healthcare
HC3 issued a sector alert warning healthcare organizations of potential unauthorized access to systems as a result of threat actors abusing the remote access tool ScreenConnect.
- 23 Jan 2024
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23 Jan 2024
Patient Boarding in the ED Soars by A Third at MGH, Harms Experience
Mass General Hospital is building out inpatient capacity to reduce the practice of boarding patients in the emergency department, which harms experience.
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22 Jan 2024
KLAS: Improved EHR Efficiency Can Mitigate Early-Stage Clinician Burnout
To help address clinician burnout in its early stages, organizations can focus on EHR efficiency by providing additional EHR training, KLAS authors said.
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22 Jan 2024
WHO Releases Governance Guidelines for Generative Artificial Intelligence
New guidance from the World Health Organization outlines how stakeholders can ensure the appropriate use of large multi-modal AI models in healthcare.
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22 Jan 2024
New Reality of Medicare Physician Payments, Future with MIPS
Medicare physician payments have always been a source of debate, leading to several changes in its payment model as it continues its shift to value-based care.
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22 Jan 2024
Steward Health Care Faces Financial Troubles, Possible Closures
Steward Health Care may have to close some facilities as the for-profit health system navigates financial distress.
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22 Jan 2024
Healthcare Data Breaches Continue to Impact Patients in New Year
Several healthcare data breaches have been reported to HHS so far in 2024, all of which occurred in 2023 or earlier.
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22 Jan 2024
Financial Distress Drove 2023 Merger and Acquisition Activity
Financial distress was cited as a factor in 28 percent of the 65 announced healthcare mergers and acquisitions in 2023.
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22 Jan 2024
UnitedHealthcare Platform Improves Member Access to Well-being Programs
The platform can connect members with well-being programs that are specific to their healthcare needs.