Bill of Health
DECEMBER 5, 2022
By Terri Gerstein. Consider the quiet car. Some Amtrak trains have a designated car for people who want a hushed environment in which to work, read, or sleep. Passengers who want quiet choose the quiet car. People who don’t want quiet sit elsewhere. In short: people want different options for travel, and Amtrak threads the needle, accommodating varying needs.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
BOSTON – Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion on patient privacy in an era of widespread data sharing. Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.
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Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
This year has been especially tumultuous for healthcare, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous labor disputes and major M&A announcements.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Community Health Network said it discovered on September 22 that the configuration of certain pixels on its digital properties allowed for a broader scope of patient information collection and transfer to third-party vendors, such as Meta and Google, than it realized. WHY IT MATTERS. Companies that provide online tracking tools have been accused in class-action lawsuits of allegedly targeting ads to people based on information regarding their health that was collected through healthcare system w
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Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
HCA and Tenet had operating margins of at least 10% and at least 5%, respectively, in nine out of 11 quarters, according to a report out Monday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
HIPAA Journal
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about Cuba Ransomware and have shared details of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by the group, along with Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) to help network defenders improve their defenses against attacks and rapidly detect computer intrusions.
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Patient engagement platform Ostro scooped up $45 million, and Cloud Health Systems, a new startup from Instacart cofounder Apoorva Mehta, reportedly raised $30 million.
Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The cyberattack has interrupted access to electronic health records and delayed patient care in multiple regions.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Michael Simpson, CEO of CliniSys. There is a real sense that we are on the cusp of a diagnostics revolution. This has been spurred on by the pandemic, which at once underscored the tremendous power of mass testing as it became the fundamental basis for decision-making, from our own personal health to national policy. It also revealed gaps in terms of needing to drastically scale up testing capacity and invest in new and innovative digital diagnostics tools.
Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death. Proteomic tests can arm providers with insights to better predict, monitor and prevent severe CVD events.
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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Elevance Health — formerly Anthem, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Sydney Health application with the addition of a nutrition tracker function driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The new feature, called Nutrition Tracker, recognizes foods or an entire meal, providing virtual nutrition advice to improve affiliated health plan members’ overall health and well-being. – Using smartphone cameras and typing-free nutrition tracking, affiliated he
Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Three trends in compliance monitoring impacting healthcare in 2022, and how to stay compliant in 2023.
Health Law Advisor
DECEMBER 5, 2022
On December 1, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a bulletin warning that commonly used website technologies, including cookies, pixels, and session replay, may result in the impermissible disclosure of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) to third parties in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).
Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The healthcare system will use Palantir technology to better match patient flows with workforce scheduling.
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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Investors in the healthcare technology space believe a measurable return on investment (ROI) and clinical validation of the technology’s platform will be the greatest indicators of company success in 2023, according to a new survey of top digital health investors by GSR Ventures. – ROI was deemed “important” or “very important” to the success of digital health companies by more than 94% of investor respondents, and 79% for clinica
HealthIT Answers
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters and a conversation with Unity Stoakes, President, Co-founder & Managing Partner at StartUp Health. The post Health is Paradoxical appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning – a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach – to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors. – The largest medical federated learning study to date with an unprecedented global dataset examined from 71 institutions across six c
HIPAA Journal
DECEMBER 5, 2022
CommonSpirit Health has provided an update on its October 2022 ransomware attack and has confirmed that the threat actors behind the attack accessed files containing patient information. The attack was detected by CommonSpirit Health on October 2, 2022, and action was immediately taken to secure its network. While the attack caused disruption at its healthcare facilities due to systems being taken offline to contain the incident, CommonSpirit Health said there was no impact on clinic, patient ca
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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – More than half of all healthcare workers (52%) feel less confident about their personal financial situation now compared to a year ago, according to a recent Harris Poll , among over 2,000 U.S. adults of which nearly 200 are healthcare workers, commissioned by IntelyCare and DailyPay. – The latest IntelyCare Research Group report, looks at how financial precarity and stress affect healthcare workers and simultaneously explores measures that can be taken to add
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 5, 2022
KFF: For-profit hospital system margins surge past pre-pandemic levels. rking. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:05.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Chris Cashwell, CEO and Founder of Azra AI. For cancer patients and their loved ones, days, weeks, and months matter. In fact, anyone who has waited anxiously for test results or a treatment regimen to begin can attest that hours, or even minutes, will drag on with emotional heaviness. From a clinical standpoint as well, time to treatment significantly impacts outcomes.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 5, 2022
For the 45th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Skip Rollins, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Freeman Health at the HCP Conference. This time we are diving into the world of IT in Healthcare and the impact it has. First, Rollins shares an old IT project he did and how it is still making a big impact today.
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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Dr. Scott Knoer, Pharm.D., MS, FASHP. What You Should Know: – Hims & Hers Health, Inc. appoints pharmacy industry veteran Dr. Scott Knoer, Pharm.D., MS, FASHP, as the company’s first-ever Chief Pharmacy & Innovation Officer. – As Chief Pharmacy & Innovation Officer, Dr. Knoer will oversee pharmacy strategy and innovation efforts for Hims & Hers.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Consumer demand for more digital security is up post-Roe. Can femtech deliver on it? agliadkovskaya. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 20:19.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Medicare Advantage plans need to offer an array of choices to meet the overall health needs of members.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Flu hospitalizations nearly double in week after Thanksgiving. fdiamond. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:07.
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The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.
Becker's Health IT
DECEMBER 5, 2022
An employee email account from Orlando (Fla.) Health was accessed by an unauthorized user, which may have compromised the information of 3,662 patients.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Healthcare Dealmakers—VillageMD's $9B Summit Health acquisition; Major Midwest health system mergers and more. dmuoio. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 17:32.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) covers 160 million Americans, but the adequacy of these plans is in decline. In a new series for CHIRblog, Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette assess some proposed policy options designed to improve the affordability of ESI. The first blog of the series looks at the primary drivers of the erosion occurring in ESI and identifies three recognized policy options to improve affordability for employers and workers alike.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Clues to physician-patient rapport might lay in EHR in-baskets. fdiamond. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 13:48.
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