Walmart Health shuts down
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
The unexpected closure of Walmart’s 51 health centers and virtual care business highlights the difficulty of providing healthcare at this moment in time.
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Nurses have a deep distrust of AI – but transparency and training could help
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
While some nurses recognize the potential of artificial intelligence to minimize documentation burden and improve patient monitoring – and see a future with broader AI-enabled nursing – others are concerned about AI replacing empathetic human assessment of patients, cutting nursing jobs, risking protected patient data to compromise and more.
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Ransomware attacks on healthcare impact nearly five times more sensitive data: report
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average organization.
HIMSS Changemaker champions Filipino-American health literacy
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
Ellen Arigorat, nursing informatics program director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, supports digital technology adoption in clinical workflows, with a focus on health equity.
Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Hospitals’ COVID reporting burden to lighten as pandemic-era policies expire
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
On Wednesday, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 admissions, capacity or occupancy data to the federal government.
Want to reduce readmissions? Personalize digital discharge guides
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
At NYU Langone Health, physicians record videos with post-hospital care plans for patients to help improve treatment compliance. Dr. Jonah Feldman, the health system's medical director for clinical transformation and informatics, explains.
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Walmart shuttering all 51 health centers, citing lack of profitability
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. | Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning.
Change Healthcare, compromised by stolen credentials, did not have MFA turned on
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Failing to turn on multifactor authentication, a common cybersecurity safeguard, “underscores pure negligence on the part of UnitedHealth,” one expert said.
Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to CDC
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted. The CDC said it still encourages hospitals to report their data on a "voluntary" basis and will soon begin displaying those data online.
Ascension taps new CFO
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Saurabh Tripathi, former CFO of Highmark Health, assumed the role on Monday.
Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices
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CVS scoops up tech-enabled Medicare Advantage broker Hella Health
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn. | CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Talkspace launches behavioral health consortium with specialty care providers
Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
The consortium will allow Talkspace users with high-acuity needs to access specialty care providers via clinician referral or through its wellness ecosystem, Health Collective.
UnitedHealth CEO Witty is set to go before Congress this week. Here's a look at his testimony
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is set to go before two congressional panels on Wednesday to answer lawmaker's questions about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that caused widespread disrup | UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is set to go before two congressional panels on Wednesday to answer lawmakers' questions about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that caused widespread disruption across healthcare.
WHOOP announces global expansion, additions to executive team
Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
The wearable tech company broadened its reach to 56 markets worldwide, added Italian and Latin American Spanish to its app and appointed three C-suite executives.
How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
AR/VR in Healthcare: Why Collaboration is its Most Important Use
HIT Consultant
APRIL 30, 2024
Wyatt Oren, Director of Sales, Telehealth and EdTech, Agora Throughout history, new and emerging technologies have helped revolutionize and advance the field of medicine, allowing medical professionals to develop groundbreaking new procedures, work towards cures to previously incurable diseases, and much more. Healthcare practitioners are always looking for ways to use emerging technologies to transform their work, and today one of the top technologies available to revolutionize the healthcare s
Lean Digital: How AI Drives Treatment Recommendations for Weight Loss
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 30, 2024
The first article in this series laid out what we know about body weight and obesity today. The rest of the Lean Digital series will look at some contributions that digital technologies are making toward solutions. The best contribution that information can make to weight management is to find more effective, personalized treatments: to match the right person to the right treatment, whether it be surgery, drugs, diet, exercise, or some combination.
Walmart Shutters All 51 Health Centers, Telehealth Offering Citing “Escalating Operating Costs”
HIT Consultant
APRIL 30, 2024
What You Should Know: – Walmart announced today the difficult decision to close all 51 Walmart Health centers and discontinue its virtual care offering. This comes after five years of operation for the health centers. – The company cited a “challenging reimbursement environment and escalating operating costs” as reasons for the closure.
Kaiser shakes hands with Innovaccer to roll out AI platform in Washington
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Kaiser Permanente announced a partnership Tuesday with leading healthcare AI platform Innovaccer. | Innovaccer’s AI platform and population health management solutions will begin to be rolled out this summer to the health system's 650,000 members in Washington.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Digital Switchover paused after failure of personal alarms led to deaths
Digital Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
Virgin Media O2 paused its rollout of the digital switchover after the deaths of two customers whose health alarms failed when their landlines were cut off.
Medical drone project in Sydney nets $2M funding
Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
It is envisioned to cover greater distances, serving Australia's rural and remote communities, while being sustainable.
Nextech Supporting the Independent Ambulatory Practice
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 30, 2024
Independent clinical practices are in danger everywhere: if they don’t go out of business, large hospital chains tend to pipette them up. Bill Lucchini, CEO of Nextech , wants these independent practices to survive. Nextech’s EHRs and solutions for practice management and patient engagement software are highly specialized to Dermatology, Med Spa, Opthamology, Orthopedics, and Plastic Surgery in order to make it as efficient as possible.
Tachmed partners with St George’s, University of London
Digital Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
A new partnership between St George's, University of London and Tachmed is set to help accelerate the development of Tachmed's at-home diagnostics.
Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Hospitals still affected by Change hack, AHA says
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 30, 2024
Hospitals continue to experience "financial and operational impacts" from the Change Healthcare hack more than two months after the cyberattack on the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, the American Hospital Association said.
Tennr Raises $18M in Series A Funding
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 30, 2024
Tennr , a NYC-based startup that automates manual work for healthcare organizations, raised $18M in Series A funding. The round was led by a16z with participation from Foundation Capital and The New Normal Fund. Other investors (from the seed round) included YCombinator, Zaza Pachulia, Jennifer Kaehms, and other health and AI-focused investors. The company, which has now raised over $25M, intends to use the funds to grow its team and scale its operations.
Digital Health Networks Awards 2024 applications now open
Digital Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 Digital Health Networks Awards, the chance for digital health professionals to receive recognition among their peers.
UnitedHealth CEO: Hackers used stolen credentials to access Change systems
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 30, 2024
The ransomware group responsible for the Feb. 21 cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare subsidiary Change Healthcare used stolen credentials to remotely access the company's systems, according to testimony from UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty.
Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask
Speaker: Amy Anderson
FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.
Trovo Health launches with $15M and other digital health fundings
Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2024
GenAI company for health plans Alaffia Health and oncology-focused clinical trial platform Klineo also secured funding.
Patient Data Stolen from Livanova in October 2023 Ransomware Attack
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 30, 2024
The medical device manufacturer Livanova, the Massachusetts community behavioral health center Aspire Health Alliance, and Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital in California have experienced ransomware attacks that exposed patient data. Livanova, London, UK Livanova, a UK-headquartered medical device manufacturer specializing in cardiac surgery and neuromodulation devices, has suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted portions of its IT systems.
Senators probe cyber agency about role in Change hack
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 30, 2024
Three senators wrote a letter asking the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about its role in addressing the Feb. 21 breach on UnitedHealthcare's subsidiary Change Healthcare, Bloomberg reported April 30.
Almost 500,000 Individuals Affected by Designed Receivable Solutions Data Breach
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 30, 2024
The Cypress, CA-based revenue cycle management company, Designed Receivable Solutions (DRS), has recently confirmed the details of a data breach that was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights on March 23, 2024, as involving the protected health information of 129,584 individuals, and the Maine Attorney General as affecting 498,686 individuals.
How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics
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