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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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04 Apr 2024
AHA observes uptick in hospital IT help desk social engineering schemes
Threat actors have been using the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees to conduct social engineering schemes and divert payments.
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04 Apr 2024
Expanding Medicaid eligibility in GA would reduce uninsurance by 28%
Around 173,000 young adults between 19 and 34 would gain health insurance coverage if Georgia expanded Medicaid eligibility.
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04 Apr 2024
Computational model uses biomarkers to predict Alzheimer's progression
A personalized mathematical model analyzes data from brain scans, cerebrospinal fluid and memory tests to predict how an individual’s Alzheimer’s may progress.
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04 Apr 2024
Stakeholders push DEA to solidify virtual prescribing flexibilities
Stakeholders are urging the agency to permanently allow virtual prescriptions of controlled substances without in-person exams well before the flexibility expires.
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04 Apr 2024
Strategies for integrating specialty care into value-based care models
The CMS Innovation Center prioritizes strategies that improve specialty care performance data, implement financial incentives, and support episode-based models.
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04 Apr 2024
Deloitte report unveils $5–7 billion AI life sciences opportunity
In the life sciences industry, transformative value can be realized by harnessing the power of AI in research, manufacturing, and commercial functions.
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04 Apr 2024
Drawbridge Health's NanoDrop gains FDA clearance for at-home blood sampling
Drawbridge Health's FDA-cleared NanoDrop blood sampling lancet device offers convenient, painless, at-home blood testing.
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04 Apr 2024
Disrespectful healthcare experience affects 33% of LGBT patients
Disrespectful healthcare experiences led to LGBT patients being less likely to seek care and more likely to switch providers.
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03 Apr 2024
RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds
Threat actors continue to see great success using simple, tried and tested methods, and many defenders are failing to do the basics
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03 Apr 2024
Do patients perceive healthcare’s gains in patient safety?
Hospitals have improved on key patient safety metrics, but whether patients perceive those improvements is a matter of receiving inpatient or outpatient care.
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03 Apr 2024
CMS final rule improves access to Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage
The rule expanded the special enrollment period to allow consumers with household incomes at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level to apply for marketplace coverage outside open enrollment.
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03 Apr 2024
Risant Health completes Geisinger acquisition
Geisinger is the first health to join Risant, a non-profit organization that aims to increase access to value-based care and coverage.
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03 Apr 2024
MFA bypass results in breach at LA County Department of Mental Health
Threat actors were able to gain access to two Microsoft Office 365 accounts by bypassing MFA requirements.
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03 Apr 2024
Rising adult melatonin use sparks concern over unsupervised child exposure
Rising adult melatonin use coincides with unsupervised child exposure, prompting urgent CDC calls for preventive action to protect public health.
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03 Apr 2024
US lags in usual source of care, primary care access
Adults in the United States are among the least likely to have a usual source of care, like a primary care provider.
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02 Apr 2024
CMS releases tool to help hospitals with price transparency
CMS’ V2.0 Online Validator tool helps hospitals develop a machine-readable file to comply with federal price transparency requirements.
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02 Apr 2024
Machine learning approach may help tailor precision medicine treatments
New machine learning tool uses data on individualized molecular interactions to predict how a patient’s immune system will respond to foreign cells.
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02 Apr 2024
HHS extends special enrollment period for former Medicaid beneficiaries
Former Medicaid beneficiaries now have until November 30 to apply for marketplace coverage during the special enrollment period.
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02 Apr 2024
FDA approves Eko Health’s Low EF detection AI for detecting heart failure
Eko Health's FDA-approved AI, developed with Mayo Clinic, aids in accurately detecting heart failure during standard exams, benefiting at-risk patients.
- 02 Apr 2024
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02 Apr 2024
HHS imposes $100K penalty on NJ facility over HIPAA right of access violations
Hackensack Meridian Health agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve HIPAA right of access failures.
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02 Apr 2024
Nursing workforce diversity increases, but room for growth remains
Growth in nursing workforce diversity is welcome news for a healthcare industry focused on health equity.
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01 Apr 2024
NIH funding development of AI tools for health disparity research
The “Trustworthy AI to Address Health Disparities in Under-resourced Communities,” project is set to enhance the explainability of AI-driven risk prediction models.
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01 Apr 2024
CMS proposes FY 2025 Medicare payment rates for hospice, IPFs
Medicare payment rates would increase by 2.6% for hospices and IPFs, respectively, in FY 2025 as CMS calculates the impact of several policy changes.
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01 Apr 2024
AI reveals race-based differences in the expression of depression
New study shows that language-based predictive models for detecting depression severity may generalize well to white Americans, but not to their Black counterparts.
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01 Apr 2024
HHS reaches HIPAA right of access settlement with Phoenix Healthcare
Phoenix Healthcare agreed to pay $35,000 and revise its HIPAA policies to resolve OCR’s 47th right of access enforcement action.
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01 Apr 2024
Biosimilar competition did not reduce out-of-pocket spending, study finds
Compared with the year before biosimilar availability, mean out-of-pocket spending was 12 percent higher in the second year after competition entered the market.
- 01 Apr 2024
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29 Mar 2024
Organisations getting better at spotting identity fraud
As the barriers to committing identity fraud continue to drop, organisations should consider more sophisticated technical measures to successfully up their game, according to a report
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29 Mar 2024
CMS chops short-term, limited duration plan length to 4 months
A new CMS policy significantly reduces the maximum amount of time that a consumer can receive coverage from a short-term, limited duration plan.
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29 Mar 2024
Skilled nursing facility proposed rule updates payment rates, VBP program
The rule proposed increasing skilled nursing facility payment rates by 4.1 percent.
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29 Mar 2024
Analysis highlights five preventable suicide risk profiles
Mental health, substance use, physical health and intimate partner conflicts are some of the most significant risk factors for suicide identified in a new study.
- 29 Mar 2024
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29 Mar 2024
Persistent physical activity is linked to better sleep patterns
A study linked persistent physical activity to lower insomnia risk and a better sleep duration.
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29 Mar 2024
FDA approves $4.25 million gene therapy for MLD
After receiving FDA approval earlier this month, Orchard Therapeutics plans to price its new MLD gene therapy at $4.25 million.
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29 Mar 2024
Patient data access speeds up after 21st Century Cures Act
The faster pace of patient data access calls into question how providers prepare clinical notes and communicate with laboratory testing sites.
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28 Mar 2024
FDA authorizes pre-exposure prophylaxis for COVID-19
The FDA has authorized a monoclonal antibody for immunocompromised patients to minimize the risk of COVID-19.
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28 Mar 2024
CMS proposes 2.8% payment rate boost for inpatient rehabilitation facilities
The agency also proposed adding, removing, and adjusting measures in the inpatient rehabilitation facility quality reporting program.
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28 Mar 2024
Healthcare security culture steadily improving, but gaps remain
Healthcare security culture maturity gaps can make the sector vulnerable to increased cyber risk, KnowBe4’s Security Culture Report suggests.
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28 Mar 2024
Hospital financial performance off to a strong start
New data from Kaufman Hall shows a median monthly operating margin index of nearly 4% in February 2024, building on several months of positive margins.
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28 Mar 2024
Online big data dashboard to help map enteric infectious diseases
The Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory dashboard aims to shed light on the global public health threat of diarrheal diseases in children.
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28 Mar 2024
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs reached $5.7 billion in 2022
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs may continue rising as demand surges and coverage expands.
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28 Mar 2024
FDA issues warning letters for unapproved topical pain relief products
The FDA issued warning letters to six companies, highlighting the dangers of unauthorized topical pain relief products and warning consumers.
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27 Mar 2024
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
Data stolen from an earlier attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been leaked by a ransomware gang that claims to be in possession of much more content
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
Despite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
Analysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime
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27 Mar 2024
Chronic care access limits diagnosis & quality for women
It takes women more than a year longer to get a diagnosis than men, spelling out an issue with chronic care access and clinical quality.
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27 Mar 2024
HHS offers resource guide to providers impacted by Change Healthcare cyberattack
The guidance document consists of health plan contact information to help providers bridge communication gaps as they work to recover from the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
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27 Mar 2024
CMS final rule aims to simplify Medicaid, CHIP enrollment, coverage
The CMS final rule updated renewal and enrollment policies and sought to eliminate practices that cause coverage disruptions.
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27 Mar 2024
Primary care delivery is similar across all Medicare patient mixes
The rate of social needs screenings was low among primary care physicians serving primarily Medicare Advantage patients and those serving traditional Medicare patients.
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27 Mar 2024
Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE
The Carequality interoperability framework facilitates the exchange of over 745,000,000 documents every month across disparate HIE networks, regions, and technologies.
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27 Mar 2024
Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge
Patient satisfaction scores were lower when patients did not receive good post-discharge notes and communication.
- 27 Mar 2024
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27 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, uptake
New study suggests that principles of behavioral economics – such as risk aversion – may have a significant impact on attitudes around vaccination and immunization.
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27 Mar 2024
SCOTUS to issue a decision on mifepristone in the coming months
Following yesterday’s hearing, experts predict that SCOTUS will issue a final ruling on mifepristone access in the coming months, likely siding with the FDA.
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27 Mar 2024
Transplant teams are less likely to accept donor hearts for Black men
An analysis of transplant center teams’ donor heart acceptances revealed that Black men on the wait list had the lowest probability of acceptance.
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27 Mar 2024
2024 MIPS Changes and Their Impact on Emergency Medicine
CMS continues to shift the MIPS reporting process with a new model specifically designed to align with physician specialties, like emergency medicine.
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26 Mar 2024
Shareholders win when businesses do better at cyber
The more advanced a company’s cyber security performance, and the more engaged its board is with security issues, the greater the return for shareholders, a report has found
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26 Mar 2024
Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022
Although still one of the least-visited alternative care sites, retail health clinic utilization soared between 2021 and 2022.
- 26 Mar 2024
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26 Mar 2024
NHS SBS launches digital advisory framework
The Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement aims to provide a way for health and care organisations to get help with digital transformation and skills
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26 Mar 2024
Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools
Interviewed customers of clinical communication vendors PerfectServe, TigerConnect, and Baxter reported the highest levels of EHR integration in a new KLAS report.
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26 Mar 2024
HC3 alerts shed light on two popular healthcare cyberattack tactics
Recent HC3 sector alerts warned healthcare organizations of email bombing and credential harvesting, both of which may be used to enable healthcare cyberattacks.
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26 Mar 2024
Deep learning model detects COVID-19 infection using lung imaging
A deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images.
- 26 Mar 2024
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26 Mar 2024
Tax breaks higher than community investments for most non-profit hospitals
Non-profit hospitals spent an average of 3.87 percent of their budgets on community investments in 2021.
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26 Mar 2024
Digital maternal health tools hold promise, but equity question remains
Patients are using digital maternal health tools to manage care, but racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to point out cultural competence issues.
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25 Mar 2024
Healthcare leaders launch Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network
The newly formed Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network aims to advance the quality and safety of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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25 Mar 2024
New cyber legislation would provide advance payments to providers facing hacks
Senator Mark Warner introduced legislation that would allow providers to receive advance payments in the event of a cyber incident, provided they meet minimum cybersecurity standards.
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25 Mar 2024
Private payers initially deny nearly 15% of medical claims
A new survey from Premier Inc. reveals a high rate of initial claim denials from private payers, including claims pre-approved through prior authorizations.
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25 Mar 2024
Medicaid disenrollments surpass 18M, exceeding HHS projections
Most Medicaid disenrollments occurred due to procedural reasons, meaning beneficiaries did not complete the required renewal process.
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22 Mar 2024
Medicaid Health Plan Will Reimburse Health Equity Certification
The health plan aims to improve health equity among its in-network hospitals by reducing certification costs.
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22 Mar 2024
Machine learning predicts perioperative peripheral artery disease risk
Machine learning models accurately forecasted one-year major adverse outcomes following endovascular intervention for peripheral artery disease.
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22 Mar 2024
Digital health tools fall short of improving type 2 diabetes outcomes
A new report questions the efficacy of digital health tools for type 2 diabetes, noting minimal clinical benefits and increased spending linked to their use.
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22 Mar 2024
Age-adjusted drug overdose deaths stabilized from 2021 to 2022
While drug overdose deaths declined in younger patients and increased in older individuals, the overall age-adjusted drug overdose deaths remained stable.
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22 Mar 2024
The global total fertility rate declined by over 50% from 1950 to 2021
Fertility rates in many countries have declined below replacement and are expected to continue declining.
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22 Mar 2024
Health equity investment slated to continue into 2024
Nearly every organization plans to maintain their current health equity investments, with 73 percent saying they may increase their equity priorities.
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21 Mar 2024
NCSC guidance to help CEOs work through cyber incidents
The NCSC has published in-depth guidance on how business leaders should respond to a cyber attack or data breach. Learn about some of the key steps you will need to follow
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21 Mar 2024
IR35 reforms: IT contractors urged to reclaim tax they may have overpaid in off-payroll settlements
With the government set to fix the settlements offset issue from 6 April, contractor insurance firm Qdos is urging individuals who worked for non-compliant IR35 organisations to see if they can reclaim any money they have overpaid
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21 Mar 2024
OCR updates HIPAA guidance on online tracking technologies
The HIPAA guidance prohibits regulated entities from using online tracking tech to disclose PHI to vendors for marketing and other purposes without consent.
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21 Mar 2024
Artificial intelligence unpredictably impacts radiologist performance
AI improves performance for some radiologists, but not others, raising questions about a one-size-fits-all integration approach for the tools in healthcare.
- 21 Mar 2024
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21 Mar 2024
Massachusetts residents delay services due to high healthcare costs
Nearly 70 percent of Massachusetts residents are worried about high healthcare costs, with co-pays and hospital bills topping the list of concerns.
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21 Mar 2024
CDC issues measles outbreak health advisory, encourages vaccination
The advisory highlights 58 confirmed measles cases across 17 US jurisdictions in 2024.
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20 Mar 2024
UK’s cyber resilience stagnates as more fall victim to attacks
The government is calling on businesses to ramp up their cyber protections as study shows improvements to resilience are stagnating amid an ever-growing volume of attacks
- 20 Mar 2024
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20 Mar 2024
HHS, payers meet to address Change Healthcare cyberattack response
HHS called on payers to improve support for small, rural, safety-net providers but acknowledged progress on Change Healthcare cyberattack response.
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20 Mar 2024
Healthcare orgs face significant data modernization challenges
Healthcare organizations report an average 124% ROI for their data investments, but many cite data management and integration as major roadblocks.
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20 Mar 2024
Change Healthcare cyberattack affecting hospital finances, care access
Nearly 60 percent of responding hospitals said the revenue impact of the Change Healthcare cyberattack is $1 million per day or higher.
- 20 Mar 2024
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20 Mar 2024
MSSP accountable care organizations share key priorities and challenges
Health system consolidation and Medicare Advantage growth posed recruitment and retention challenges for MSSP accountable care organizations.
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20 Mar 2024
AstraZeneca acquires Fusion Pharmaceuticals in $2 billion deal
The acquisition provides AstraZeneca with access to clinical-stage, next-generation radioconjugates for oncology.
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19 Mar 2024
Patient portal message responses vary by race, ethnicity
Data shows that for Asian, Hispanic, and Black patients, the odds of getting a patient portal message response from a physician are lower.
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19 Mar 2024
One-third of the global population is affected by neurological disease
Nervous system disorders are the leading causes of disease burden worldwide, according to a study in the Lancet Neurology.
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19 Mar 2024
Google Health shares generative AI, health equity research updates
Google Health detailed recent advances in its generative AI research, alongside efforts to improve health equity and disease detection.
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19 Mar 2024
CMS announces new ACO model focused on primary care
The voluntary ACO model will be part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program for low-revenue participants starting in 2025.
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19 Mar 2024
MRI-based prostate cancer risk calculators prone to underprediction
Two MRI-based models to predict prostate cancer risk performed well in European and North American cohorts, but were prone to underestimate risk in a third group.
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19 Mar 2024
MA hospitals losing $24M per day following Change Healthcare cyberattack
In addition to reimbursement losses, Massachusetts hospitals are reporting claims processing and pharmacy disruptions due to the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
- 19 Mar 2024
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19 Mar 2024
Healthcare spending is higher in Medicare households, study finds
Healthcare spending accounted for 13.6 percent of total household spending for Medicare households compared to 6.5 percent for non-Medicare households.