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2 million patients' data exposed in cyberattack on New England health services provider

Healthcare Dive

The attack, disclosed by Shields Health Care Group earlier this week, is the largest so far this year, according to HHS’ data breach portal.

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Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge

Bill of Health

By Gwendolynne Reid, Cherice Escobar Jones, and Mya Poe. Biases in scholarly citations against scholars of color promote racial inequality, stifle intellectual analysis, and can harm patients and communities. While the lack of citations to scholars of color in medical journals may be due to carelessness, ignorance , or structural impediments , in some cases it is due to reckless neglect.

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COVID-19 changed consumers' interaction with healthcare

Healthcare It News

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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world." This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countr

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Teladoc hit with class-action suit alleging it misled investors

Healthcare Dive

The complaint accuses the company, along with CEO Jason Gorevic and CFO Mala Murphy, of downplaying competition in the telehealth sector that stifled growth in mental health and chronic care businesses.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. THE PROBLEM. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system.

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Hospital lobby urges CMS to delay enforcement of price estimate requirement

Healthcare Dive

The contested provision in the No Surprises Act requires certain providers to assemble a comprehensive cost estimate for patients, including costs from other providers that could step in to provide care.

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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending. But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. U.S. Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way

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Customizing healthcare consumer experiences

Healthcare It News

Data management is critical as marketing teams move into a future without cookies. Improving your data management systems and finding new ways to leverage that data should be a top priority. Getting there is difficult because many marketers are reporting that dealing with disparate data sources is a top concern. But creating a unified data system isn’t an impossible feat.

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HIPAA Compliance 2025: Navigating Regulatory Changes & Industry Trends

Based on comprehensive survey data from diverse healthcare providers, the 2025 HIPAA Benchmark Report delivers actionable intelligence for modern compliance programs. This report examines how organizations are restructuring HIPAA Privacy Programs to address emerging regulatory requirements. Through analysis of staffing models, program operations, and breach management protocols, it provides a clear picture of current best practices.

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A quick regulatory guide to telehealth services in Japan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Introduction. Smart phones, wearable devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence software, internet applications, and other digital health technologies are advancing and transforming disease diagnosis, therapy, and other medical practices by physicians, direct-to-consumer services for better health and well-being, and other healthcare services.

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Oracle announces plans to create national health record database on heels of Cerner deal

Healthcare Dive

“There’s a healthy skepticism that they’ll have the magic bullet to overcome any of the existing barriers to interoperability,” one data sharing expert said.

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Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Increased by 94% in 2021

HIPAA Journal

Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations increased by 94% year over year, according to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report from cybersecurity firm Sophos. The report is based on a global survey of 5,600 IT professionals and included interviews with 381 healthcare IT professionals from 31 countries. This year’s report focused on the rapidly evolving relationship between ransomware and cyber insurance in healthcare. 66% of surveyed healthcare organizations said they had experienced a ransom

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Ascension Illinois uses real-time patient data with programmatic data to improve care

Healthcare It News

Care management is fed by information, much of it electronic. Clinicians rely on electronic health records and other healthcare information systems to give them the data they need to make informed decisions to optimally manage care. But what if optimal could become more optimal? What if clinicians could have access to real-time patient information in the mix with EHRs and other HIT?

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Simplify Screening for Excluded Providers

Every health care provider that accepts federal payments must screen for excluded providers. Use this sample Exclusion Screening Checklist and Compliance Policy to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance with the law. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare trigger screening requirements that may extend to employees, contractors, volunteers, board members, and network providers.

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Cleveland Clinic's virtual second opinion program saves $65 million annually

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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New Jersey judge puts RWJBarnabas Health hospital acquisition on hold

Healthcare Dive

The FTC alleges that RWJBarnabas Health and Saint Peter's compete head-to-head in New Jersey, particularly in the central part of the state.

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Apple reveals medication tracking feature and more health updates

Mobi Health News

The tech giant also announced a new atrial fibrillation history feature and sleep stage tracking.

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Checking in on FDB Vela, the nation's second e-prescribing network

Healthcare It News

FDB, formerly known as First Databank, which is owned by Hearst Health, announced at HIMSS22 in March the launch of the country's second e-prescribing network, FDB Vela. For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.).

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Olympus puts telecollaboration and advanced content management on the digital health stage at HIMSS22 Europe

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the scale of the opportunity to leverage innovative digital tools that can optimise patient care with the help of enhanced connectivity and the improved sharing of information and expertise between stakeholders. Systems that enable collaboration also support hospitals as they manage the challenge of health care professionals’ burnout – a situation that has been worsened by the pandemic.

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CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

Healthcare Dive

Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups.

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Data Breaches Reported by Aesto Health and Motion Picture Industry Health Plan

HIPAA Journal

Aesto Health, a Birmingham, AL-based software company that provides solutions to help healthcare enterprises and medical providers exchange, organize, and protect patient information, has announced it recently experienced a cyberattack that caused disruption to certain internal IT systems. The security breach was detected on March 8, 2022, and steps were immediately taken to prevent further unauthorized access to its systems.

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Roundup: The Royal Marsden NHS FT expands Hyland Healthcare suite, Clinical trial uses digital education platform to understand fatal genetic diseases in children, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust expands Hyland Healthcare suite. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has selected Hyland ’s PACSgear image capture solution to integrate with its existing OnBase content services platform and new Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system. The new digital health record (DHR) falls under the hospital’s digital transformation programme and began in August last year, with Epic going live across the trust from March 2023.

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The Evolution of Communication in Healthcare Settings

Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

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Making telehealth the enabler to more connected care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Teladoc Health Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Making telehealth the enabler to more connected care Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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BHSH hires Northwell Health executive to lead Beaumont Health

Healthcare Dive

Benjamin Schwartz will take the helm at Beaumont Health, now part of a larger Michigan system following its merger with Spectrum Health.

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DogWalk Zero-day Windows MSDT Vulnerability Gets Unofficial Patch

HIPAA Journal

Another zero-day vulnerability has been identified that affects the same Windows tool as Follina. While the vulnerability is not known to have been exploited in the wild, the bug is exploitable and the recent interest and widespread exploitation of the Follina vulnerability make exploitation of this flaw more likely. The vulnerability affects the Microsoft Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) and is a path traversal flaw that can be exploited to copy an executable file to the Windows Startup folder.

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Personalizing patient engagement through data-driven omnichannel experiences

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Productive Edge Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Personalizing patient engagement through data-driven omnichannel experiences Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Vendor Risk Management: Strategies for Protected Data

In healthcare, where patient data protection is paramount, effective vendor risk management isn't just good business—it's essential for maintaining compliance and trust. This comprehensive guide helps healthcare compliance professionals navigate the complexities of third-party vendor relationships in an increasingly interconnected healthcare environment.

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How to engage many stakeholders in reimagining healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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FTC launches investigation into PBMs; CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna and more hit with requests for data

Healthcare Dive

Pharmacy groups cheered the news, which reversed a vote earlier this year by FTC commissioners not to investigate PBMs' pricing and contractual practices.

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Geisinger Plans to Transition Its Entire Digital Portfolio To Amazon Web Services

Healthcare IT Today

Anytime a health system moves its whole set of applications to an outside cloud vendor, it’s good to give that deal an extra look. Such a deal is especially visible and noteworthy, though, when it involves an organization as large and influential as Geisinger. What’s going on is that Geisinger is taking what could be […].

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United Health Foundation puts $100M toward a more diverse healthcare workforce

Healthcare It News

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.