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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Ransomware was used in 72% of network intrusions last year, says BakerHostetler
Healthcare It News
MAY 1, 2024
In addition to analyzing client ransomware incidents and other cyberattacks, the privacy and data security specialists at BakerHostetler compared incident response statistics across industries and looked at data breach regulatory response and lawsuits. Of all incidents Baker Hostetler analyzed, healthcare, biotech and pharma took the lion's share at 28%.
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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April. Salesforce for public health and other government agencies could integrate natural language processing to ease administrative burdens and generate richer case files.
Telemedicine, enabled with responsible AI, can improve the patient experience
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 1, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. Amanda Bury, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company specializing in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage, knows telehealth's potential to enhance and optimize patient experiences and outcomes while emphasizing convenience, affordability and empowerment – tying in responsible AI innovation and strategies for e
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?
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.
Follow the (Medical) Record: Matt Wildman and Don discuss the show moving to MRO Exchange
MRO Compliance
APRIL 26, 2024
Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the Medical Record: Matt Wildman and Don discuss the show moving to MRO Exchange During the final episode of Follow the Medical Record, host Don Hardwick is joined by MRO’s chief commercial officer, Matt Wildman, as they discuss MRO’s evolution and transformation from a disclosure management company to a clinical data exchange industry leader.
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HIMSSCast: The need for home care continues
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.
Digital from the start: New medical campus to rise in Singapore's east
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 28, 2024
The Singaporean Ministry of Health has officially broken ground on a new medical campus in eastern Singapore. To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.
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.
FTC Strengthens Health Data Breach Notification Rule to Protect Consumers
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
What You Should Know: – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized significant changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) , aiming to improve consumer protection in the digital age. – These updates clarify the rule’s application to modern technologies like health apps and expand the information healthcare providers must disclose in the event of a data breach.
Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices
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Centene looks beyond Medicaid redeterminations
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 26, 2024
The nation's largest Medicaid insurer expects to return to normal operations this year, though redeterminations continue to dog Centene through a mismatch between rates and acuity.
Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 26, 2024
On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. WHY IT MATTERS UnitedHealth Group, Optum's parent company, reported more than $1 billion in net losses during the first quarter – which included impacts from the February 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack and subsequent payment systems outage.
New collective of women's health companies aims to scale access to specialty care
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs. | A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs.
Healthcare Cybersecurity: 5 Steps to Prepare for a Ransomware Attack
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Jim Broome, President and CTO, DirectDefense It’s not a matter of if but when an organization will face a security incident. In 2023, the healthcare industry faced its toughest year, with over 124 million health records breached in a total of 725 hacking incidents, according to The HIPAA Journal. This trend shouldn’t come as a surprise given how hospitals and medical offices are relatively lucrative and easy targets for cyberattacks due to the combination of outsourced services and soluti
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.
Kaiser exposed up to 13.4M plan member records to third parties
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 26, 2024
The largest data breach reported so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.
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.
Walmart announces closing of clinics and virtual care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 1, 2024
Walmart is closing Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care, saying the business model was not profitable nor sustainable. The Walmart Health centers opened in 2019. "Through our experience managing Walmart Health centers and Walmart Health Virtual Care, we determined there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue," the company said by statement.
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.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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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
Medical research is changing, data privacy laws have not
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Congressional inaction regarding health privacy laws robs Americans’ control of ownership of their health data, according to Senator Bill Cassidy, ranking member of the Senate HELP committee.
HCA deploys AI from Augmedix for acute care documentation in EDs
Healthcare It News
APRIL 25, 2024
San Francisco-based Augmedix has launched what it says is the first fully-automated, generative AI-powered medical documentation software for emergency departments, and it's already in use at one of the biggest health systems in the country. Known as Augmedix Go, the ambient documentation tool for EDs leverages automatic speech recognition and natural language processing and was developed in partnership with physicians at four HCA Healthcare hospitals, the company said Wednesday in announcin
Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 25, 2024
The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher quality virtual care WHY IT MATTERS The new Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed, the commission says,
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.
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.
The Digital Advantage: Augmenting the Healthcare Customer Experience
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Becky Watkins, Senior VP of Client Solutions of ResultsCX When interacting with industries such as retail, hospitality, and finance, we’ve all become accustomed to quick, effective, and personalized customer service. It’s no surprise that when it comes to healthcare, consumers are now seeking a better customer experience on par with the quality of the clinical care they have come to expect.
CVS slashes 2024 outlook — again — as Medicare seniors drive spending
Healthcare Dive
MAY 1, 2024
Runaway inpatient spending in particular caused CVS’ insurance costs to snowball after returning “to patterns we have not seen since the start of the pandemic,” its CFO said.
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.
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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – May 1, 2024
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 1, 2024
It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Director of Business Development – Healthcare Information Technology – Planet Technology Coding Mana
'Too big to fail': Consolidation concerns loom over hearing on Change Healthcare cyberattack
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's ha | The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's had ripple effects across healthcare.
Baton Health Unveils Universal Primary Source for Instant Healthcare Credentialing
HIT Consultant
MAY 1, 2024
What You Should Know: – Baton Health has launched its Universal Primary Source, revolutionizing healthcare credentialing by granting access to hundreds of primary source databases instantly. – The platform has garnered over 30 organizations as clients and early adopters, showcasing its potential to transform healthcare credentialing and reduce verification times from hours or days to mere seconds. – Baton Health’s state-of-the-art platform eliminates manual data entry and
FTC broadens health breach notification rule to include apps
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2024
Regulators have been pursuing more enforcement actions against health applications sharing consumers’ data. Friday’s final rule should give those actions more heft.
How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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