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14 Aug 2024
Major players ‘less than impressive’ as altnets rise in UK broadband
By Joe O’HalloranA range of surveys identify independent sector as the driving force in UK’s growing gigabit broadband industry and caution of slowdown in subscribers by major providers
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14 Aug 2024
Newcastle City Council swaps out Oracle Java for Azul
By Cliff SaranChanges to Oracle’s Java licensing meant the council no longer received free security patches
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14 Aug 2024
Microsoft corrects six zero-days for August Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatAdmins can address most of the zero-days with a cumulative update, but of more concern is the lack of patches for two vulnerabilities demonstrated at the Black Hat conference.
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28 Aug 2023
HCAHPS, Patient Experience Scores Tank During COVID-19 Due to Staffing
By Sara HeathThe key HCAHPS domains impacted by COVID-19 included cleanliness and responsiveness of staff, showing the effect staffing has on patient experience.
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28 Aug 2023
Allina Health Ends Medical Billing Practice Based on Past-Due Debt
By Victoria BaileyThe decision follows the Minnesota Attorney General’s announcement to investigate the nonprofit health system’s medical billing practice.
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28 Aug 2023
Machine Learning Predicts Esophageal, Stomach Cancers Using EHR Data
By Shania KennedyA new machine learning tool accurately predicts incident esophageal adenocarcinoma and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma three years prior to diagnosis using EHR data.
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28 Aug 2023
How Neighborhood Sways Pediatric Primary and Preventive Care Access
By Sara HeathUnderstanding how neighborhood disadvantage can affect pediatric primary and preventive care access, plus outcomes, can help tailor provider interventions.
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28 Aug 2023
Third-Party Data Breaches Continue to Dominate Breach Notifications
By Jill McKeonThe MOVEit hack and other third-party data breaches continue to impact healthcare entities across the country, this week’s data breach roundup shows.
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28 Aug 2023
11% of Telehealth Visits Result in In-Person Follow-Up for Same Reason
By Anuja VaidyaBehavioral health and chronic conditions are the primary diagnoses associated with in-person follow-ups for the same clinical reason after a telehealth visit.
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28 Aug 2023
Why Interoperability is the Next Critical Consideration for Virtual Care
By AmplifyMDAmid ongoing virtual care adoption, healthcare providers must focus on interoperability to boost clinician experience, patient outcomes, and improved care models.
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28 Aug 2023
How Practices Can Avoid Overlooked Revenue Opportunities
By Greenway HealthProviders are leaving money on the table, but a tighter revenue cycle and technology can help practices identify and close gaps.
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25 Aug 2023
FQHC Taps eClinicalWorks Health IT to Boost Population Health
By Hannah NelsonAn FQHC in Connecticut increased HIV screenings by 11 percent after adopting population health modules from health IT vendor eClinicalWorks.
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25 Aug 2023
Researchers Validate NLP Tool to Extract SDOH from Clinical Notes
By Shania KennedyAn NLP-based SDOH tool has displayed significant generalizability, portability, and accuracy across two organizationally and geographically distinct health systems.
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25 Aug 2023
What Do Orgs Want in Patient Safety & Compliance Technology?
By Sara HeathAlthough functionality was the top feature in patient safety and compliance technology, cost also emerged as a determining factor.
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25 Aug 2023
UnitedHealthcare Resolves HIPAA Right of Access Case With $80K Settlement
By Jill McKeonUnitedHealthcare paid an $80,000 settlement to HHS, marking the 45th case settled under OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.
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25 Aug 2023
AHA Calls for Easier On-Ramp for Bundled Payments, Episode-Based Payments
By Sara HeathThe organization said CMS should offer resources and a better “on-ramp” for those transitioning to bundled payments and taking on more risk.
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25 Aug 2023
Virtual Multidisciplinary Rounds Help Cut Length of Patient Stay
By Anuja VaidyaVirtual multidisciplinary rounds with added interventions can cut patient length of stay and costs by improving care team collaboration.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs Saved $1.8B in 2022, CMS Reports
By Victoria BaileyACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program also performed better on quality measures related to diabetes, smoking cessation, and cancer screenings.
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24 Aug 2023
Wearable Devices Can Help Track ALS Disease Progression
By Anuja VaidyaNew research shows that wearable sensors enable remote assessment of motor function in home-based ALS patients, improving disease progression tracking.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework
By Lis EvenstadNHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024
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24 Aug 2023
NHS England calls on NHS organisations to take part in wireless trials
By Lis EvenstadNHS organisations are encouraged to apply for funding for the wireless trials programme, which aims to explore how cutting-edge tech can improve patient care
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24 Aug 2023
HSCC Releases Updated Guidance On Information Sharing Best Practices
By Jill McKeonThe document aims to help healthcare organizations establish and manage comprehensive cybersecurity threat information sharing programs.
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24 Aug 2023
Hospitals, Health Systems Recognized for Price Transparency Compliance
By Victoria BaileyThe hospitals and health systems receiving awards have complied with price transparency regulations, including publishing machine-readable files with standard charges.
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23 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Method Helps Correct Motion-Corrupted Brain MRIs
By Shania KennedyMIT researchers leveraged physics principles and deep learning to help fix brain MRIs corrupted by motion artifacts, which may help curb misdiagnoses.
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23 Aug 2023
1 in 5 Women Have Bad Patient Experience in Maternity Care
By Sara HeathThe most common issues with maternity care patient experience include being threatened with withholding treatment or being made to accept unwanted treatment.
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23 Aug 2023
Cyber attacks in 2023 develop quicker as average dwell times plummet
By Alex ScroxtonThe median attacker dwell time shrunk from 10 to eight days in the first seven months of 2023, and in the case of ransomware attacks it is down to just five days
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23 Aug 2023
Is The American Public Swayed by Medical Misinformation?
By Sara HeathKFF data showed that there’s still a lot of gray area in terms of whether the public believes widespread medical misinformation.
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23 Aug 2023
Healthcare Data Breach Volume Dips As Number of Compromised Records Rises
By Jill McKeonDespite an overall decrease in healthcare data breach volume in the first half of the year, the number of records compromised increased by 31% compared to the second half of 2022.
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23 Aug 2023
Telehealth Boosts Psychiatric Visits Within Skilled Nursing Facilities
By Anuja VaidyaTelehealth at skilled nursing facilities skyrocketed in 2020, and though usage has since dropped, research shows telehealth increased access to psychiatric care.
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22 Aug 2023
OpenNotes Launches Resources to Help Patients Use Clinician Notes
By Sara HeathOpenNotes said the tools will help patients understand and be able to use open notes, with special resources touching on specific patient populations, like pediatrics.
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22 Aug 2023
Middle-Class Americans Face Highest Rates of Medical Debt Burden
By Victoria BaileyAlmost a quarter of middle-class Americans had medical debt, compared to 22 percent of lower-class people and 13 percent of higher-class people.
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22 Aug 2023
Advocate Aurora Reaches $12.25M Settlement to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit
By Jill McKeonAdvocate Aurora Health suffered a data breach last year that impacted 3 million individuals, stemming from its use of tracking pixels.
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22 Aug 2023
Michigan HIE Taps Health IT to Advance Interoperability Use Cases
By Hannah NelsonMichigan's state-designated HIE is implementing a health data fabric solution to drive health IT interoperability and boost scalability.
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22 Aug 2023
Deep Learning-Based Electrocardiogram Screening Detects Heart Defects
By Shania KennedyNew deep learning model outperformed traditional methods for detecting signs of atrial septal defect, an underreported but potentially serious heart condition.
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22 Aug 2023
Patient Education, Navigation Stand in the Way of Preventive Screening
By Sara HeathPatient-provider communication can help overcome patient education and care coordination barriers to preventive screenings for colorectal cancer.
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21 Aug 2023
OHSU, Legacy Health Sign Letter of Intent to Form Integrated Health System
By Victoria BaileyWith more than 32,000 employees, the integrated health system would be the largest employer in the Portland metro area.
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21 Aug 2023
HHS Launches Digital Health Security Project to Protect Healthcare Infrastructure
By Jill McKeonSpearheaded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the DIGIHEALS project aims to ensure operational continuity amid a cyberattack.
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21 Aug 2023
Experts: Medical Community Must Help Shape Use of LLMs in Healthcare
By Shania KennedyWith interest in large language model applications growing, researchers argue that the medical community must help guide how these tools are used in healthcare.
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21 Aug 2023
Vanderbilt, Jefferson Health Systems Launch Virtual Nursing Programs
By Anuja VaidyaThe health systems launched virtual nursing programs to enhance care operations and reduce the administrative load on a burned-out workforce.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Orrick Law Firm's Security Mishap Leads to Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuit
By Sarai RodriguezThe law firm, once counseled in a 2020 healthcare data breach lawsuit for a vision benefits plan manager, now grapples with one of its own.
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18 Aug 2023
Nashville Hospital Swaps Multiple EHR Systems for Oracle Community Works
By Sarai RodriguezNashville General Hospital will switch out multi-EHR systems moving forward with Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks for a single EHR.
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18 Aug 2023
ML Model Accurately Predicts 6-Month Mortality Risk for Cancer Patients
By Shania KennedyAn externally validated ML model for six-month cancer prognosis prediction may help facilitate serious illness conversations between clinicians and patients.
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17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
By Aaron TanHealthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer
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17 Aug 2023
Researchers Observe 59% Spike in Medical Device Security Vulnerabilities
By Jill McKeonResearchers found 993 vulnerabilities within 966 medical devices and products, some of which have been weaponized by advanced persistent threat groups.
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17 Aug 2023
Latinas See Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening, Age of Diagnosis
By Sara HeathYoung diagnosis but low access to breast cancer screening indicates Latina women seek care once they see symptoms, potentially when cancer is further along.
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17 Aug 2023
MOVEit Breach Notifications Continue to Roll In, Impacting Health Data
By Jill McKeonThis week’s healthcare data breach roundup contains a few newly reported breaches stemming from the MOVEit hack, as well as other recent data security incidents impacting health data.
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17 Aug 2023
Epic Announces Integration for Generative AI Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonEmory Healthcare in Georgia will deploy the generative AI integration across its Epic EHR to streamline clinical documentation workflows.
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17 Aug 2023
NLP May Help Flag SDOH Needs for Alzheimer’s, Dementia Patients
By Shania KennedyNatural language processing tool uses unstructured EHR data to identify social determinants of health for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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17 Aug 2023
Texas Researchers Use VR Technology to Measure Brain Activity
By Anuja VaidyaThe researchers developed an EEG sensor and attached it to a commercial virtual reality headset to measure users' brain activity during simulations.
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16 Aug 2023
Accenture’s Brussels AI lab to focus on European public sector and health
By Karl FlindersAccenture will use its Brussels AI lab to test AI and generative AI's application in the European public sector
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16 Aug 2023
CMS Updates ACO REACH Model for 2024 to Improve Health Equity
By Victoria BaileyChanges to the Health Equity Benchmark Adjustment under the ACO REACH model will help identify underserved beneficiaries living in high-cost areas.
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16 Aug 2023
Deep Learning Tool May Support Personalized Cancer Care
By Shania KennedyJohns Hopkins researchers have developed a deep learning method to predict cancer-related protein fragments that trigger tumor cell-killing immune responses.
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16 Aug 2023
How Common Is Medical Misinformation Spread by Physicians?
By Sara HeathNew data shows that physicians who spread COVID-19 medical misinformation had a broad reach on social media.
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16 Aug 2023
ESRD-Related Telehealth Services Documentation Found Lacking During PHE
By Anuja VaidyaAn OIG audit found that few Medicare claims for telehealth-based end-stage renal disease services provided detailed information.
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15 Aug 2023
Health Data of Millions Impacted by MOVEit Exploit at IBM
By Jill McKeonThe Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing notified more than 4 million individuals of a breach that occurred when IBM suffered from a MOVEit Transfer hack.
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15 Aug 2023
YouTube Revamps Medical Misinformation Guidelines for Video Content
By Sara HeathThe medical misinformation guidelines will assess whether YouTube video content contradicts local health authorities or the World Health Organization.
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15 Aug 2023
MGMA: EFT Fees Imposed by Health Plans Are Hurting Providers
By Victoria BaileyTwo-thirds of medical groups reported that health plans are charging EFT fees the practices did not agree to.
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15 Aug 2023
ONC Awards $2M for Health IT Interoperability Projects
By Hannah NelsonPart of the ONC funding will go towards a health IT project to drive advance care planning interoperability using advanced FHIR standards.
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15 Aug 2023
Clinicians May Be Unprepared for Widespread CDS Algorithm Integration
By Shania KennedyResearchers posit that clinicians need more training on how to use clinical decision support algorithms before they can be integrated into medical practice.
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15 Aug 2023
How Healthcare Can Overcome Shared Decision-Making Challenges
By Sara HeathIntegrating decision aids into the EHR and creating reimbursement models will be key to clearing shared decision-making hurdles.
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15 Aug 2023
Adults With High Heart Disease Risk Less Likely to Use mHealth Devices
By Anuja VaidyaNew research reveals that only 42 percent of US adults with or at risk of heart disease use smart mHealth devices to track progress toward health goals.
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15 Aug 2023
Study Can’t Link Hospital Competition to Quality Improvements
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new study questions the belief that greater hospital competition will lead to quality improvements by analyzing surgical outcomes across markets.