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04 Oct 2024
Dockworkers' fight a warning about the future of work
Dockworkers are fighting for the future of work, fearing automation will take their jobs. Even those who stay employed worry that the tech will strip their work of its worth.
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04 Oct 2024
UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities
A series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis
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04 Oct 2024
Companies invest in climate technology to reduce emissions
Analyst firm GlobalData identified four major climate tech investments businesses are making now to reach 2030 carbon emission reduction goals.
Health IT News from the past 365 days
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11 Jan 2024
Primary Care Model Did Not Reduce Healthcare Spending or Improve Care
Healthcare spending growth was lower among practices participating in the primary care model and the Medicare Shared Savings Program simultaneously.
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11 Jan 2024
Machine Learning Model Predicts Individual Risk for Multiple Myeloma
A new computational model can forecast an individual’s personalized multiple myeloma prognosis based on their tumor genomics and treatment regimen.
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11 Jan 2024
HHS Finalizes Religious Rights Rules Protecting Patient Care Access
The final rule rescinds a 2019 statute that HHS said impeded patient care access under the guise of conscience and religious rights.
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10 Jan 2024
Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors
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10 Jan 2024
NY AG: Refuah Health Must Invest $1.2M In Security Following Ransomware Attack
New York Attorney General Letitia James also secured $450K in penalties from Refuah Health, which suffered a ransomware attack after it allegedly failed to safeguard patient information.
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10 Jan 2024
Risk Prediction Model Forecasts Intensive Care Unit Admission, Survival
A population-level risk model may help researchers and clinicians better flag patients at risk of intensive care unit admission and adverse outcomes.
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10 Jan 2024
New Research Links Hospital-at-Home Care to Positive Patient Outcomes
A new study reveals that hospital-at-home programs established under the CMS waiver have low mortality and skilled nursing facility use rates.
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10 Jan 2024
American Red Cross Tackles National Blood Shortage with Technology
Amid an unprecedented blood shortage, the American Red Cross leverages technology to streamline donations.
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10 Jan 2024
Online Pharmacies Under Scrutiny for Lax Safety Checks, Endangering Patients
An investigation into the online pharmaceutical industry reveals lax regulations, endangering patient safety.
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09 Jan 2024
Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available
A joint effort between Cisco Talos, Avast and the Dutch police will bring relief to many victims of a variant of the Babuk ransomware known as Tortilla
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09 Jan 2024
Wales makes headway with electronic prescriptions roll-out
Electronic prescribing will be deployed in both primary and secondary care, while a shared medicines record will be live by the end of March 2024
- 09 Jan 2024
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09 Jan 2024
LockBit Ransomware Claims Capital Health Cyberattack
LockBit ransomware claimed responsibility for a November 2023 attack on Capital Health that resulted in system downtime.
- 09 Jan 2024
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09 Jan 2024
Elevance Health Lawsuit Slams Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Calculation
Elevance Health said the new Medicare Advantage star rating methodology led to inaccurate and lower scores for 2024.
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09 Jan 2024
Does Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Exacerbate Racial Care Disparities?
Black adults with pneumonia faced widening gaps in mortality at hospitals participating in the Value-Based Purchasing Program, highlighting racial care disparities.
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09 Jan 2024
AI-Driven ECG Analysis Accurately Predicts Right-Side Heart Issues
A deep learning-based electrocardiogram model may enhance clinical evaluations of the heart’s right ventricle, providing a potential alternative to complex imaging.
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09 Jan 2024
Care Coordination Model Increases Primary Care Follow-Up Access
A new study gives further updates to Camden Coalition’s model for care coordination, marking quality improvement.
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08 Jan 2024
Government to push NHS roll-out of digital pathology
Department for Health and Social Care wants to increase use of digital pathology in cancer screening, following a recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee
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08 Jan 2024
Uber Health’s Health IT Deal to Ease Transportation, SDOH Referral
The integration will make it easier for Uber Health users to identify patients with SDOH and transportation needs and check their benefit eligibility.
- 08 Jan 2024
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08 Jan 2024
Medical Billing Quality Lacking According to Leapfrog Measures
Most hospitals don’t meet new medical billing measures added to the Leapfrog Group’s 2022 survey, a recent study shows.
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08 Jan 2024
North Kansas City Hospital Impacted By PJ&A Data Breach
The PJ&A data breach was one of the largest healthcare data breaches reported to HHS last year, and notifications continue to roll in.
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08 Jan 2024
Elevance Health Plans to Acquire TX-Based Infusion Therapy Provider
Elevance Health aims to expand the infusion therapy provider’s geographical footprint and improve therapeutic coverage.
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08 Jan 2024
More Patients Visit NPs & PAs as Usual Source of Care, Primary Care
The number of patients reporting a usual source of care is overall lower than years previous, but more patients are opting to pick an NP or PA for the job.
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05 Jan 2024
Researchers Identify Potential Cause of SIDS: Convulsive Seizures
A study analyzing videos from nanny cams and baby monitors reveals that convulsive seizures may contribute to SIDS.
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05 Jan 2024
Hospital Costs for Inpatient COVID-19 Treatment Rose 26% During Pandemic
Hospital costs for inpatient COVID-19 treatment increased more than five times the rate of medical inflation during the pandemic.
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05 Jan 2024
US Drug Prices Are 8x the Cost in Peer Countries for Some Drugs
For nine out of ten Medicare-negotiated drug prices, the US still faced higher costs than peer countries even with rebates.
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05 Jan 2024
Case Western Reserve University to Develop Enhanced Medical Imaging AI
New four-year, $1.1 million project aims to build an AI alternative to traditional medical imaging processes that rely on chemical “contrast agents.”
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05 Jan 2024
Data Reveals How Health Outcomes Link to Structural Racism
Neighborhood-level data showed a connection between common chronic illnesses and indicators of structural racism.
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04 Jan 2024
Reckitt Recalls Nutramigen Infant Formula for Bacterial Contamination
Another type of infant formula, Nutramigen Powder, is being recalled due to potential bacterial contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii.
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04 Jan 2024
Ingestible Obesity Treatment Device Creates Illusion of Fullness
MIT engineers developed an ingestible device that activates receptors in the stomach indicating satiety, making it a new minimally invasive obesity treatment.
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04 Jan 2024
Private Equity Acquisition Tied to More Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Hospital-acquired conditions per 10,000 hospitalizations increased by 25.4 percent at private equity hospitals.
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04 Jan 2024
Centene Pays South Carolina $25M to Settle Overcharging Allegations
The settlement resolved allegations that Centene overcharged for and misrepresented costs of pharmacy services.
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04 Jan 2024
Semaglutide Reduces Weight in Patients with Failed Bariatric Surgery
A study published in Obesity revealed that weekly semaglutide injections helped manage weight in severely obese patients who had unsuccessful results with bariatric surgery.
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04 Jan 2024
Nurse Practitioners Predict Doc Shortages, Care Access to Loom in 2024
Workforce shortages are leading to long appointment wait times and exacerbating increased patient demand, but nurse practitioners could fill in the gaps, AANP said.
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03 Jan 2024
500 Drugs from Over 140 Brands Are Expected to Cost More This Year
Reuters broke the news that the approximately 500 drugs in the US are supposed to increase in January 2024.
- 03 Jan 2024
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03 Jan 2024
Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy
Sweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy
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03 Jan 2024
ONC Final Rule Updates Health IT Certification for Interoperability
The final rule updates the baseline version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to Version 3 for the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
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03 Jan 2024
NY AG Fines NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Over Tracking Tech Use
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s tracking tech use resulted in patient information being shared with third-party tech companies, the New York Attorney General’s Office found.
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03 Jan 2024
Adding Salt to Food Increases CKD Risk by 4–11%
A study published in JAMA Network Open evaluating self-reported salt intake revealed that adding salt to food could increase CKD risk by 4–11%.
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03 Jan 2024
2024 Employer Sponsored Health Plan Predictions: GLP-1s, Vendors, Data
In 2024, healthcare costs will drive decision-making in employer sponsored health plans as they reassess their point solutions and benefits.
- 03 Jan 2024
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03 Jan 2024
NY Healthcare Orgs Collab to Deliver Value-Based Hospice, Palliative Care
In addition to promoting value-based hospice and palliative care, the partnership will establish a transitional care program to improve in-home care.
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03 Jan 2024
Framework to Address Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare AI Models
An expert panel recently determined that mitigating algorithmic bias requires healthcare stakeholders to promote health equity, transparency, and accountability.
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02 Jan 2024
Wearable Biosensor Predicts Aggression Among Inpatients with Autism
The wearable device collects physiological data that can be analyzed via machine learning to preempt aggressive behavior among inpatient youth with autism.
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02 Jan 2024
Fallon Ambulance Service Data Breach Impacts 911K Individuals
The now-defunct ambulance service suffered a data breach when a threat actor accessed its data storage archive.
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28 Dec 2023
Does Integrating Medicare and Medicaid Improve Care for Dual Eligibles?
UPMC’s fully integrated dual eligible special needs plan improved home- and community-based services use but fell short in other areas.
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28 Dec 2023
Pros, Cons of End-to-End RCM Platform Adoption
A new KLAS report surveys deep adopters of RCM technology from a single vendor in the pursuit of an end-to-end platform.
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28 Dec 2023
GAO Urges FDA, CISA to Revamp Medical Device Cybersecurity Agreement
The FDA and CISA maintain a 5-year-old agreement about medical device cybersecurity management that must be updated to reflect organizational changes, GAO suggested.
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28 Dec 2023
Research on Digital Health Stroke Interventions Not Diverse Enough
An analysis shows digital health interventions can improve stroke prevention, but due to a lack of diversity, their efficacy among minority groups is uncertain.
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27 Dec 2023
Healthcare Software Company Notifies 2.7M Individuals of Data Breach
ESO Solutions suffered a ransomware attack in which an unauthorized third party encrypted some of its computer systems, resulting in a data breach.
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27 Dec 2023
Humana Awards $169K in Health Equity Grants to Community-Based Orgs
The health equity grant recipients align with Humana’s goals to improve access to care and address social determinants of health.
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27 Dec 2023
74% of Hospitals Use Some Revenue Cycle Automation
More hospitals and health systems are automating revenue cycle operations, with many leveraging artificial intelligence.
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27 Dec 2023
Kaiser Permanente Study Shows Scalability of Hospital-at-Home Model
The study reveals that the hospital-at-home model can be scaled successfully, but it is unclear if its care quality remains on par with traditional inpatient care.
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21 Dec 2023
COVID Rates Surge Amidst the Holiday Season
National wastewater data reveals very high COVID-19 viral activity in the US amidst the holiday season.
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
Ransomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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21 Dec 2023
ACA Marketplace Enrollment Up By 33%, Surpassing 19M Enrollees
Around 15 million enrollees have selected an ACA marketplace plan through the HealthCare.gov platform.
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21 Dec 2023
Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Healthcare AI, ML Research
Kaiser Permanente’s AIM-HI has awarded funding to five healthcare organizations researching how AI and ML tools can improve diagnostic decision-making.
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21 Dec 2023
Lawmakers Push For Increased Patient Privacy Regarding Prescription Records
In a letter to HHS, lawmakers addressed patient privacy concerns following instances of pharmacies handing prescription records over to law enforcement without a warrant.
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21 Dec 2023
Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy Manages MDD in Cancer Patients
A phase 2 open-label clinical trial on cancer patients with MDD determined that psilocybin-assisted group therapy is a safe, feasible, and effective treatment.
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21 Dec 2023
Few Providers Use Z-Codes to Document Social Determinants of Health
Use of Z-codes to document social determinants of health is low, and there are differences in which patients get a Z-code documented, two unrelated studies showed.
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20 Dec 2023
GAO Appoints New Members to Health IT Advisory Committee
GAO added five new health IT leaders to the committee, including Lee Fleisher, MD, former chief medical officer and director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS.
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20 Dec 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out
Multinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant
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20 Dec 2023
Medical Groups Faced High Expenses, Staffing Challenges in 2023
From 2020 to 2023, medical groups’ revenue grew by 9.1 percent, while expenses increased by 26.5 percent.
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20 Dec 2023
Most Employers Offering Retiree Health Plans Use Medicare Advantage
For many retirees, a Medicare Advantage plan may be the only option they have for receiving retiree health benefits.
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023
In the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023
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20 Dec 2023
Which Healthcare Players Yield the Highest Patient Satisfaction?
Gallup polling found that 82 percent of patients think their nurses provide excellent or good medical care, while 69 percent said the same about doctors.
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20 Dec 2023
CISA’s Healthcare Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Reveals Sector-Wide Improvement Areas
CISA urged the healthcare sector to use phishing-resistant MFA, implement network segmentation, and verify the implementation of appropriate hardening measures to mitigate cyber risk.
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20 Dec 2023
Apple Watch Can Detect Irregular Heartbeats in Children
Research shows that the Apple Watch can accurately record arrhythmia events in children, correctly characterizing a majority of the most common type.
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20 Dec 2023
FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Using RWD in Medical Device Regulation
The guidance outlines multiple factors of RWD, including appropriate use, data relevance and reliability, data collection and analysis, and documentation.
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19 Dec 2023
Minimizing the Impact of Bias in Healthcare Algorithms
A special communication in JAMA Network Open outlines strategies for minimizing racial and ethnic bias impacts in healthcare algorithms.
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19 Dec 2023
DOJ Disrupts BlackCat Ransomware Variant, Offers Decryption Key to Victims
BlackCat ransomware group, also known as ALPHV or Noberus, has been known to target the healthcare sector.
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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19 Dec 2023
Feds Finalizes $115 Participation, Other Fees for IDR Process
The new fees come after a court ruling vacated previous guidance used to set the administrative payment amount for the federal IDR process.
- 19 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
HHS Urges States to Reduce Medicaid, CHIP Child Disenrollments
States that have not expanded Medicaid have higher child disenrollment rates than expansion states combined, new data indicated.
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19 Dec 2023
Deep Learning Model Predicts Mortality Following Medical Procedures
Patients classified as high risk for postoperative mortality by a new deep learning tool were nearly nine times more likely to die than their low-risk counterparts.
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19 Dec 2023
OCR Settles Multiple HIPAA Right of Access Complaints With Optum Medical Care
Optum Medical Care agreed to pay $160,000 to resolve OCR’s investigation, marking the 46th enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.
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19 Dec 2023
Patient-Provider Communication Ranks High While Doc Face Time Lags
Doctors are good at answering patient questions, but the limited amount of in-person time with doctors mars the patient experience.
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18 Dec 2023
Large Language Models May Improve Clinician Diagnostic Performance
Probabilistic recommendations from AI chatbots may improve human diagnostic performance through collective intelligence, potentially curbing overtreatment.
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18 Dec 2023
32% of Academic Physicians Plan to Leave Workforce, Fueled by Burnout
Each one-point increase in burnout among academic physicians was associated with 52 percent higher odds of intention to leave.
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18 Dec 2023
Leveraging Social Determinants for Medicare, Medicaid Engagement
Social determinants of health are a top barrier for Medicare and Medicaid populations, but health plans can tap into the data to optimize member engagement and outcomes.
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18 Dec 2023
Delta Dental of California MOVEit Hack Impacts 7M Individuals
Delta Dental of California notified nearly 7 million individuals that their information had been impacted by the MOVEit hack in May.
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18 Dec 2023
NC Attorney General Sues HCA After Quality of Care Complaints
AG Josh Stein alleges HCA Healthcare has not provided quality, consistent emergency and cancer care following Mission’s purchase.
- 18 Dec 2023
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18 Dec 2023
NYC Health Dept. Expands Work to Address Racism in Clinical Algorithms
The Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms, which examines race adjustment in clinical decision support tools, will expand its focus to include hypertension.
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18 Dec 2023
AllianceRx Walgreens Selected to Distribute XDEMVY
Along with BlinkRx, Carepoint, and CVS, AllianceRx Walgreens Pharmacy was selected to distribute XDEMVY (lotilaner ophthalmic solution) 0.25%.
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15 Dec 2023
CMS Model Aims to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes, Access to Care
CMS will select up to 15 state Medicaid agencies that will receive technical and financial assistance to improve maternal health outcomes.
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15 Dec 2023
2022 National Healthcare Spending Growth Slowed to Pre-COVID Levels
National healthcare spending grew 4.1 percent in 2022 and Medicare and private payers experienced a slightly slower growth rate than the previous year.
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15 Dec 2023
Harrisburg Medical Center Data Breach Impacts 147K Individuals
Harrisburg Medical Center recently disclosed a year-old data breach in which a threat actor potentially gained access to sensitive documents.
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15 Dec 2023
Medication Access for OUD Abysmal for Medicare Enrollees
While the number of Medicare enrollees with medication access for OUD still remains low, OIG reported a promising increase in naloxone access.
- 15 Dec 2023
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15 Dec 2023
Providers, Payers Sign Pledge for Ethical, Responsible AI in Healthcare
Over 25 health systems and payers have made voluntary commitments to ensure that health AI leads to fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe outcomes.
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15 Dec 2023
Researchers Identify the Cause of Morning Sickness
Researchers in Nature identified a hormonal basis for morning sickness, providing a potential way to assess risk.