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.
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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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
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 2, 2024
Google and DeepMind released an open access paper on their newest artificial intelligence tools intended for use in hea | Results released by Google on Med-Gemini's performance show that it outperforms existing AI/ML including GPT-4 on over a dozen industry benchmarks.
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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?
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.
Healthcare It News
MAY 2, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. He acknowledged that the absence of multi-factor authentication on a legacy server provided the cybercriminals with their successful attack vector.
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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.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 2, 2024
Walgreens’ decision to slash VillageMD’s clinical footprint has reverberated to the financial accounts of the primary care chain’s minority owner — Cigna.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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%.
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.
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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.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 2, 2024
Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 2, 2024
Retail pharmacy giant Walgreens inked another partnership to recruit participants for research as it continues to build out its clinical trials business. | Walgreens has signed more than 35 clinical trial contracts with drugmakers including Freenome and Prothena. The aim is to optimize recruitment and make clinical trials more accessible, inclusive and equitable, the companies said.
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.
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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 2, 2024
Dr. Julia Frydman will be the oncology-focused company's first medical director for palliative care. She will oversee its new Enhanced Supportive Care program.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience and hospital-acquired infection scores that plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2024
Risks associated with the tests have increased, requiring greater oversight to protect patients, the agency contends.
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
Mobi Health News
APRIL 29, 2024
Juan Lavista Ferres, head of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss his book on ethically using AI to impact humanity positively.
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