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Patient records exposed in data breaches doubled in 2023

Healthcare Dive

Though the number of data breaches declined slightly from 2022, more than 116 million records were exposed last year, according to a new report from a cybersecurity firm.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

By Timothy Fish Hodgson, Roojin Habibi, and Alicia Ely Yamin In developing the digital symposium, From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencie s (which ran from October – December 2023), as editors we endeavored to get scholars, human rights advocates, judges, and policy makers to engage critically with the expert Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the PHE Principles), published by the International Commission of Jurists and the Glo

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Humana slashes 2023 profit outlook as high medical costs continue

Healthcare Dive

The insurer also lowered its expectations for Medicare Advantage membership growth this year. Humana’s stock dropped 11% in morning trading Thursday to its lowest level since February 2022.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last 30 years.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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Bright Health rebrands as NeueHealth, distances itself from insurance portfolio

Healthcare Dive

After exiting the insurance business, the tech company will focus on providing care support and solutions for consumers and providers.

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NIH seeks proposals for advanced mobile hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. WHY IT MATTERS Rural populations are subject to higher rates of heart disease, cancer, trauma, lung disease and stroke than urban Americans, according to the draft Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical Ca

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Business Group: These are the top healthcare challenges employers expect to face this year

Fierce Healthcare

Self-insured employers are set to face plenty of challenges this year, ranging from addressing the mental health needs of their workforces to developing strategies for on-site clinics amid a pivot | Mental health, pharmacy costs and vendor partnerships among the top healthcare concerns for large, self-insured employers, according to a report by the Business Group on Health.

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Mastercard Unveils Virtual Cards to Streamline Healthcare Claim Settlements

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mastercard , a global leader in payments, is pioneering a revolutionary solution using its cutting-edge virtual card technology. – This first-of-its-kind initiative aims to streamline B2B claim settlements, replacing the clunky old system with a sleek, digital one. Partnering with leading financial institutions and health tech platforms like Remedinet in India, Mastercard is paving the way for a faster, more efficient future.

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Epic launches new 'Showroom' website for 3rd-party apps, services

Fierce Healthcare

As part of an initiative teased last summer, Epic officially launched this week new third-party vendor programs to connect health tech companies with health systems and providers. | As part of an initiative teased last summer, Epic officially launched this week new third-party vendor programs to connect health tech companies with health systems and providers.

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Leveraging RWD & Tech: Diversifying Clinical Research for Real-World Impact

HIT Consultant

James Coutcher, Sr.Director and Global Head of Emerging Methods and Solutions for IQVIA In today’s complex healthcare landscape, real-world data (RWD) is increasingly valued for its information regarding diverse patient populations. Clinical research sites are an essential part of the RWD collection process, which increasingly leverages advanced technologies that enhance data collection, analysis and informed decision-making.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Payer Roundup–Humana confirms layoffs; Medicaid expansion linked to lung cancer survival

Fierce Healthcare

Below is a round-up of payer-centric news for the week of Jan. 15., 2024 | This week, Humana announced workforce reductions, a study associated Medicaid expansion with reduced lung cancer mortality and Bright Health moved its corporate headquarters.

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AHIMA Appoints Mona Calhoun as Board President/Chair, New Board Members

HIT Consultant

Mona Calhoun, Ph.D., MS, Med, RHIA, FAHIMA , President/Chair at AHIMA What You Should Know: – The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced the appointment of Mona Calhoun, PhD, MS, Med, RHIA, FAHIMA, as its President/Chair for 2024. – With 35 years of experience in the health information (HI) field, Calhoun brings a wealth of expertise and passion to lead AHIMA through this transformative time in healthcare.

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Financial distress fueled more hospital M&A deals in 2023, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals’ immediate financial needs drove more than a quarter of the sector’s merger and acquisition activity through 2023, which also brought a higher overall number of unveiled transactions than | The portion of hospitals and health systems whose transactions followed dire financial situations was nearly double that of 2020, 2021 and 2022, Kaufman Hall wrote in a recent report.

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TBD Health Empowers FOLX & Wisp Patients with Next-Day STD/STI Testing & More

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: TBD Health, a sexual healthcare provider revolutionizing the medical landscape through unparalleled digital and in-person clinical care, today announced its entry into the B2B healthcare market by offering fellow digital health companies like FOLX Health and Wisp access to its at-home STD/STI test kits, diagnostics lab, pharmacy, and clinics.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Senate passes short-term funding bill, House expected to follow

Fierce Healthcare

The Senate voted 77-18 to pass a bill Thursday that would punt a partial government shutdown, set to go into effect this weekend, back to early March. | The bill again pushes back a scheduled $8 billion-per-year cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital program payments and extends funding for community health centers, this time to March 8.

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Unlock Your Brain’s Potential: CERVAI™ AI Estimates Your Brain Age & Health Score

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: DiagnaMed Holdings Corp., a digital health artificial intelligence company focused on brain health, today announced the pilot launch of CERVAI™ a world-first consumer brain health and wellness AI solution that aims to ‘raise a red flag’ for potential brain health issues by estimating brain age and providing a brain health score.

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Closing Health Gaps in Chronic Care - The Power of At-Home Testing and the Kidney Disease Crisis

Fierce Healthcare

Chronic diseases are at an all-time high and are plaguing the U.S. 60% of adults are living with ch | Health equity strategies continue to fail in reaching their full potential. Can at-home testing spark their success and improve health outcomes?

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Rewired 2024: Doctors’ roles will be ‘radically redefined’ by AI

Digital Health News

Ahead of Rewired 2024, three programme committee members speak to Digital Health News about AI in healthcare and what its impact will be moving forward.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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UnitedHealthcare Unveils UHC Hub to Streamline Health & Well-being Access for Employers and Employees

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UnitedHealthcare today launched the UHC Hub , a groundbreaking platform that simplifies access to a vast network of health and well-being programs for both employers and employees. – UHC Hub tackles two key challenges: managing the growing variety of employee health programs and empowering individuals to find and utilize resources effectively.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Helps Clinicians Work at the Top of Their Licenses

Healthcare IT Today

One could say that Amazon.com launched the modern computing era when it released Amazon Web Services more than 17 years ago. In this video, we learn about the company’s focus on health care during the past nine years from Dr. Angela A. Shippy, Amazon Web Services’ Clinical Innovation Lead for Healthcare and Senior Physician Executive at the AWS re:Invent conference.

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Forta scores $55M to scale parent-led autism therapy platform

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to grow its autism therapy practice, continue AI and LLM research, and develop clinical algorithms.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?

Digital Health News

This briefing includes solutions reaching the Accelerator stage of CivTech Accelerator Round 9 and The Breathing App launching an app for diabetes patients.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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'Punishing the victims': Would banning ransom payments stop hospital cyberattacks?

Becker's Health IT

As ransomware attacks on hospitals and health systems hit an all-time high in 2023, executives, legislators and patients alike are searching for a solution.

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Apple finds workaround on reinstated ban of Apple Watch sales

Mobi Health News

The tech giant is now selling its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 without a blood oxygen feature.

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Digital health companies progress to CivTech accelerator stage

Digital Health News

Three digital health companies focused on providing support to women during menopause have advanced to the CivTech Round 9 Accelerator.

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Proposed Rule Would Roll Back Expansion Of Association Health Plans

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule rescinding a Trump-era regulation that expanded the use of Association Health Plans (AHPs). In a post for Health Affairs Forefront, CHIR's Sabrina Corlette takes a look at the history of AHPs and what's at stake in the Biden administration's proposal to roll back the 2018 rule.

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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.

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Digital health companies say 2023 a tricky year to sell to NHS

Digital Health News

A survey from Silver Buck has revealed that many digital health tech companies have named 2023 as being trickier than previous years to sell to NHS.

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TBD Health enters B2B space, partners with digital health companies Folx Health, Wisp

Fierce Healthcare

TBD Health, a hybrid sexual health provider, is launching an enterprise offering for digital health companies. | Folx Health will have access to TBD Health’s at-home STD/STI test kits and diagnostics lab, while Wisp will be able to refer to two brick-and-mortar clinics.

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Navigating the Prior Auth Landscape in 2024: 3 Things to Know Before Implementing Automation

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Steve Kim, Co-Founder and CEO at Valer Prior authorization automation is an essential consideration for healthcare organizations seeking to streamline their processes in the coming year. Automating prior authorization workflow offers several operational, financial, and clinical benefits, including fewer avoidable denials, procedure cancellations, and delays in care, better patient outcomes, improved staff productivity, and more.

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Payer stocks skid as Humana slashes 2023 outlook amid elevated utilization

Fierce Healthcare

Amid a surge in utilization and disappointing results in the annual enrollment period, Humana lowered its outlook for 2023, according to a new filing. | Amid a surge in utilization and disappointing results in the annual enrollment period, Humana lowered its outlook for 2023, according to a new filing.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.