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30 Aug 2024
Siegwerk strengthens global manufacturing operations with managed SD-WAN
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal manufacturer enhances operational security and digitisation with managed SD-WAN, managed security and professional services
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30 Aug 2024
MEF association claims SASE milestone
By Joe O’HalloranLeading technology provider achieves first milestone in secure access service edge programme, with SASE certification now generally available to trade association’s technology and service provider members
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30 Aug 2024
Norwegian Refugee Council leverages Okta for Good cyber scheme
By Alex ScroxtonPietro Galli, CIO of the Norwegian Refugee Council, reveals how the globally distributed NGO has been taking advantage of the Okta for Good CSR programme to improve its own cyber security and data protection practice, and elevate good practice in the third sector
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Health IT News from the past 365 days
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12 Mar 2024
Care orgs tap Microsoft generative AI for clinical documentation
By Hannah NelsonStandford Medicine, WellSpan Health, and Providence are early adopters of DAX Copilot, a generative AI tool for clinical documentation from Microsoft.
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12 Mar 2024
Healthgrades: communication, patient experience sway recommendations
By Sara HeathDoctor and nurse communication are among the top patient experience issues that predict whether a patient will recommend a hospital to others.
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12 Mar 2024
Lower reimbursement rates, denials behind razor-thin margins
By Jacqueline LaPointeA survey of health system CFOs identifies major pain points, including lower reimbursement rates, more denials, and high labor costs.
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12 Mar 2024
What are the top patient safety concerns for this year?
By Sara HeathECRI listed workforce challenges and patient access to maternal and perinatal care as the leading patient safety concerns for this year.
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12 Mar 2024
Machine learning enables prediction of pediatric urinary condition
By Shania KennedyNew tool uses machine learning to forecast risk of dilating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), a common cause of hydronephrosis in infants.
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12 Mar 2024
Healthcare hit hardest by ransomware last year, FBI IC3 report shows
By Jill McKeonLockBit and ALPHV/BlackCat were the top ransomware variants to impact critical infrastructure sectors last year, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report.
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12 Mar 2024
Patients mostly use telehealth for prescription renewals, follow-ups
By Anuja VaidyaNew survey results from Elevance Health reveal US adults’ top telehealth use cases and underscore the enduring patient satisfaction with virtual care services.
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12 Mar 2024
2024 Medicare Advantage premiums remain low and stable
By Victoria BaileyFor beneficiaries selecting plans through eHealth, the average Medicare Advantage premium is $9 per month—the same as in 2023.
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12 Mar 2024
FDA expands Wegovy indications, adding cardiovascular disease
By Veronica SalibLast week, the FDA expanded Wegovy’s approval, allowing doctors to prescribe it to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke.
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11 Mar 2024
Government not facing up to CNI cyber risks, committee warns
By Alex ScroxtonThe Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has accused the government of burying its head in the sand over the cyber threat to UK critical infrastructure
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11 Mar 2024
Surescripts reports increase in patient data sharing across HIE network
By Hannah NelsonIn 2023, Surescripts saw increased utilization of several patient data sharing tools, including its Real-Time Prescription Benefit services.
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11 Mar 2024
VA announces joint EHR deployment with DoD during EHRM program reset
By Hannah NelsonVA is rolling out the federal EHR system at a joint-DoD healthcare facility despite pausing additional go-lives as part of its EHR modernization (EHRM) reset.
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11 Mar 2024
HEALTHeLINK HIE Launches Dashboard for Community Health
By Hannah NelsonCommunity health organizations and providers in Western New York can search the HIE dashboard at a county and zip code level to inform public health initiatives.
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11 Mar 2024
$460B spending bill averts shutdown, some physician pay cuts
By Jacqueline LaPointeIn addition to preventing a government shutdown, the bipartisan spending bill will also reduce the Medicare physician pay cut and delay Medicaid DSH reductions.
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11 Mar 2024
Mount Sinai to develop sleep apnea outcome risk prediction models
By Shania KennedyA $3 million NIH grant will help researchers develop and study machine learning models to predict risk for cardiovascular disease in sleep apnea patients.
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11 Mar 2024
Medicare Advantage enrollment increased by 1.7 million beneficiaries
By Victoria BaileyFor-profit health plans accounted for 73.5 percent of all Medicare Advantage enrollment in 2024.
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11 Mar 2024
Trauma center hospitals charged above-market prices for non-trauma care
By Victoria BaileyPrices for non-trauma inpatient admissions were 4.4 percent higher at trauma center hospitals than at hospitals without a trauma designation.
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11 Mar 2024
Short sleep duration linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
By Veronica SalibA JAMA Network Open study reported that chronic short sleep duration correlated with an increased probability of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
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11 Mar 2024
Behavioral healthcare access in community health centers up 40%
By Sara HeathDespite increased mental and behavioral healthcare access in community health centers, further funding is needed to meet growing demand.
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08 Mar 2024
Deep learning tool targets ‘black box’ AI problem in medical imaging
By Shania KennedyNovel deep learning approach designed to flag disease biomarkers in medical images can generate a ‘map’ to explain its diagnostic reasoning.
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08 Mar 2024
Medical Debt Associated With Worse Population Health, Higher Mortality
By Victoria BaileyEvery $100 increase in median medical debt was associated with poorer population health, including 8.0 more physically unhealthy days and 6.8 more mentally unhealthy days per 1,000 people.
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08 Mar 2024
Pediatric telehealth use can help shrink healthcare’s carbon footprint
By Anuja VaidyaA new study shows that pediatric telehealth use cut carbon emissions by 618 metric tons over one year by eliminating the need for travel to and from clinics.
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08 Mar 2024
WHO reports increasing rates of HIV drug resistance to dolutegravir
By Veronica SalibA WHO press release highlighted trends from its 2024 HIV Drug Resistance Report, revealing increased resistance rates to dolutegravir.
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08 Mar 2024
Former medical device CEO convicted for medical device fraud
By Veronica SalibAfter an 11-day trial, a jury in the Southern District of New York convicted Laura Perryman of healthcare fraud.
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08 Mar 2024
Out-of-pocket costs for patient portal messages reach $25
By Sara HeathAlthough 82 percent of payers fully cover claims for patient portal messages, some patients are left with up to a $25 bill for the exchange.
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07 Mar 2024
FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Sale of Dexcom CGM
By Veronica SalibFor the first time in the United States, patients can get continuous glucose monitors without a prescription.
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07 Mar 2024
PE Practice Ownership Raises Concerns About Competition
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new study finds that private equity firms collectively held over 30% market share in over 100 MSAs and more than 50% in 60 MSAs.
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07 Mar 2024
Artificial Intelligence Method Enables Data Mining from Pathology Reports
By Shania KennedyThe Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)-Reports, a set of 10,000 machine-readable pathology reports, may bolster large language model applications in oncology research.
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07 Mar 2024
Few Physicians Participate in Both Medicaid and Marketplace Plans
By Victoria BaileyThe share of Medicaid-participating primary care physicians participating in marketplace plans ranged from 8.5 percent in South Carolina to 59.6 percent in Iowa.
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07 Mar 2024
USDA Offers $60M in Funding for Telehealth, Distance Learning
By Anuja VaidyaThe agency is accepting applications for grant funding to support hardware and software purchases for telehealth and distance learning services nationwide.
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07 Mar 2024
Semaglutide Minimizes MASLD Severity in Patients with HIV
By Veronica SalibAn NIH-funded study found a correlation between semaglutide use and reduced metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease severity in HIV-positive patients.
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06 Mar 2024
Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan
By Bryan GlickIn his 2024 spring budget, Jeremy Hunt announced funding to use tech to improve productivity across the public sector, with most of the cash focused on digital initiatives in the NHS
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06 Mar 2024
Epic, Oracle Adopt USCDI+ Cancer Standard for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonSix EHR vendors, including Epic and Oracle, have voluntarily committed to adopt the USCDI+ Cancer standard to drive health data interoperability.
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06 Mar 2024
Former Doc Receives Prison Sentence for Telehealth Prescribing Scheme
By Anuja VaidyaA former California physician will spend more than three years in federal prison for his role in a telehealth prescribing scheme that included opioids.
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06 Mar 2024
Utilization Restrictions on Medicare Part D Drugs Increased, Study Finds
By Victoria BaileyUtilization restrictions were more common among brand-name-only drugs and in standalone prescription drug plans.
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06 Mar 2024
Lurie Children’s Restores Key Systems Following Cyberattack
By Jill McKeonAfter a month of outages, Lurie Children’s Hospital has reactivated its EHR platform and other key systems.
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06 Mar 2024
Expanded Virtual OUD Medication Access Likely to be Cost-Effective
By Anuja VaidyaPandemic-era flexibilities that allow the initiation of OUD treatment via telehealth and take-home doses of medications are likely cost-effective, research shows.
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06 Mar 2024
January Hospital Margins Dip, But Overall Finances Remain Stable
By Victoria BaileyHospital margins fell 11 percent from December, but net and gross operating revenues both increased.
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06 Mar 2024
CDC’s Updated COVID Isolation Guidelines: Realistic or Relaxed?
By Veronica SalibThe CDC’s announcement of its updated COVID-19 isolation guidelines has been met with conflicting responses; some deem the updates realistic, while others say it is too relaxed.
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05 Mar 2024
ALPHV/BlackCat gang vanishes amid ransomware ‘turmoil’
By Alex ScroxtonMystery surrounds the apparent disappearance of the ALPHV/BlackCat cyber crime gang amid reports that a prominent US victim paid a $22m ransom
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05 Mar 2024
HHS Releases Statement on Change Healthcare Cyberattack
By Jill McKeonCMS will issue guidance encouraging payers to relax prior authorization and utilization management requirements as Change Healthcare system outages persist, HHS said.
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05 Mar 2024
Indiana AG Sues Healthcare Organization Over Data Breach
By Jill McKeonIndiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit against Apria Healthcare regarding a data breach that impacted nearly two million individuals.
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05 Mar 2024
Machine Learning Predicts Cancer Risk in Liver Disease Patients
By Shania KennedyMachine learning can forecast which metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease patients are likely to be diagnosed with liver cancer in the future.
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05 Mar 2024
Banning ransomware payments back on the agenda
By Alex ScroxtonThe idea of banning ransomware payments to cyber criminals is back on the agenda, with former NCSC chief Ciaran Martin arguing that tougher measures need to be taken
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05 Mar 2024
Did COVID-19 Help Close Disparities in Patient Portal Use?
By Sara HeathSex- and age-based disparities in patient portal use were reduced during the pandemic, but racial disparities remain.
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04 Mar 2024
Frederick Health Taps MEDITECH EHR Integration for Precision Medicine
By Hannah NelsonThe MEDITECH EHR integration allows Frederick Health providers to order genetic tests and analyze discrete results directly within the Expanse platform.
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04 Mar 2024
Jeremy Hunt to deliver tech-laden Spring Budget
By Lis EvenstadThe chancellor’s 2024 Budget will cover a £800m funding package to boost public sector productivity through technology, with cash for police tech, the justice system transformation programme and the NHS
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04 Mar 2024
AI Smartphone Tool Accurately Diagnoses Pediatric Ear Infections
By Shania KennedyAn artificial intelligence-driven smartphone app may help diagnose childhood ear infections and guide appropriate antibiotic treatment.
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04 Mar 2024
Optum Offers Temporary Funding Assistance For Change Healthcare Customers
By Jill McKeonThe AHA suggested that the program “will not come close” to meeting the needs of its members as the Change Healthcare cyberattack fallout continues.
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04 Mar 2024
G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash
By Caroline DonnellyCCS has confirmed to Computer Weekly the insurance requirements for Lots 1 to 3 of the G-Cloud 14 framework are under review, as SME-focused minister pledges to investigate matter
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04 Mar 2024
Non-Profit Health Systems Need Positive Margins
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new report from Deloitte underscores the need for non-profit health systems to generate positive margins for community benefits and more.
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04 Mar 2024
NIST Releases CSF 2.0, Caters to Audience Beyond Critical Infrastructure
By Jill McKeonThe NIST CSF 2.0 is the document’s first major update in the decade since it was first released.
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04 Mar 2024
Epic Risk Model Moderately Successful at Predicting Acute Kidney Injury
By Shania KennedyEpic’s Risk of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury model was found to have high predictive value in some cases, but also high false-positive rates.
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04 Mar 2024
Medication Error Rates Similar Between Phone, Video Telehealth Consults
By Anuja VaidyaIn the ED, physician-related medication error rates were similar after video telehealth and telephone consultations, a new study shows.
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04 Mar 2024
Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Receive Less Home Healthcare Services
By Victoria BaileyMedicare Advantage beneficiaries had shorter home healthcare lengths of stay and fewer visits from nurses, therapy clinicians, and home health aides than traditional Medicare beneficiaries.
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04 Mar 2024
OpenNotes Sets Sights on AI in Healthcare with New OpenNotes Lab
By Sara HeathOpenNotes Lab will convene patients, providers, and health IT developers to assess how AI will change clinical documentation and patient communication.
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01 Mar 2024
Text Message-Based mHealth Intervention More Effective Later in Day
By Anuja VaidyaNew research reveals that while a text-based CBT intervention was effective in addressing mental health symptoms, the time messages were sent impacted mood ratings.
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01 Mar 2024
Health Insurance Costs Are Growing Too Expensive for Small Businesses
By Kelsey WaddillEven small businesses that currently can afford health insurance face a steep cost cliff if premiums increase.
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01 Mar 2024
AHA Issues Statement on the Use of AI in Cardiovascular Care
By Shania KennedyThe American Heart Association’s recent statement on artificial intelligence explores best practices for utilizing the tools in clinical care.
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01 Mar 2024
Consumer Advocacy Orgs Share How to Move Away From Fee-For-Service Payment
By Victoria BaileyPolicymakers must improve payment incentives, invest in primary care, and establish national data-sharing standards to move away from fee-for-service payment and delivery models.
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01 Mar 2024
Daily Cannabis Smoking Linked to 25% Greater Heart Attack Risk
By Veronica SalibData from an observational study revealed that consuming cannabis by smoking regularly increased the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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01 Mar 2024
CDC Recommends Additional COVID-19 Vaccine for Elderly Populations
By Veronica SalibThe CDC’s ACIP recommends that individuals 65 and older get another 2023–2024 formula COVID-19 vaccine dose.
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29 Feb 2024
The Sequoia Project, HL7 Partner to Advance FHIR Adoption Nationwide
By Hannah NelsonThe partnership aims to drive alignment between HL7 FHIR Accelerator projects and The Sequoia Project initiatives to accelerate health data interoperability.
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29 Feb 2024
New Resident Training Schedule Reduces Burnout, Improves Wellness
By Veronica SalibA 4+4 block schedule among internal medicine residents was linked to lower burnout rates and improved self-reported outcomes than a 4+1 schedule.
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29 Feb 2024
MGMA Urges HHS to Financially Assist Medical Groups Amid Change Cyberattack
By Jill McKeonThe advocacy group requested guidance, financial resources, and enforcement discretion to help medical groups stay afloat as the Change Healthcare cyberattack outages persist.
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29 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Models Predict Mortality Among Dementia Patients
By Shania KennedyNew machine learning tools accurately predicted patient mortality at one, five, three, and 10 years across eight dementia subtypes.
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29 Feb 2024
16% of All Abortions Occur Via Telehealth as Restrictions Tighten
By Anuja VaidyaFollowing the overturning of federal abortion protections, abortions obtained via telehealth, even in states with bans, have grown, new research shows.
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29 Feb 2024
MA Payment Reductions May Impact Value of Healthcare for Beneficiaries
By Victoria BaileyThe 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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28 Feb 2024
New version of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware hits victims
By Alex ScroxtonAn 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
By Alex ScroxtonData 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
By Alex ScroxtonDespite 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
By Hannah NelsonLOINC 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
By Sara HeathPeople 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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
By Kelsey WaddillThe 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%
By Jacqueline LaPointeA 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
By Anuja VaidyaA 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
By Veronica SalibAn 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
By Sara HeathWhite 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
By Alivia Kaylor, MScOn 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
By Alex ScroxtonMore 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
By Alex ScroxtonExploit 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
By Alex ScroxtonHuman-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
By Jill McKeonThe 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
By Jacqueline LaPointePrivate 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
By Shania Kennedy“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?
By Sara HeathResearchers 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
By Jill McKeonAdoption 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
NLP Framework Could Improve Medical Summarization Tools
By Shania KennedyResearchers 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
Privately Insured Adults Are Satisfied With Health Plan Coverage
By Victoria BaileyPrivately 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
Patient Portals & Open Notes Increase Referral Access by Up to 40%
By Sara HeathPatients 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.
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26 Feb 2024
SC Health System Invests $40M in Epic EHR Platform for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR implementation is set to advance interoperability across the health system, allowing providers to access patient data more easily for care coordination.
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26 Feb 2024
HHS Delivers Reports to Congress on HIPAA Compliance, Enforcement
By Jill McKeonOCR 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
By Victoria BaileyCMS 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
Epic Sepsis Model Predictions May Have Limited Clinical Utility
By Shania KennedyNew 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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26 Feb 2024
Stakeholders Urge Congress to Take Early Action on Telehealth Access
By Anuja VaidyaIn 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
By Victoria BaileyDespite 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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23 Feb 2024
ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonConnectWise 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
By Jill McKeonThis marks the second-ever ransomware settlement that OCR has reached with a covered entity over potential HIPAA violations following a ransomware attack.