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Bonus Features – September 3, 2023 – 60% of cybersecurity incidents impact patient care, the average medical device has six or more security vulnerabilities, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare saw a 700% jump in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022, according to an analysis from Zayo. Humana and Interwell Health are launching a value-based kidney care model for Medicare Advantage members in 13 states.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. spends on NASA. The economic impacts of COVID-19 will impact how health care spending, and spending for families and households, for some years to come.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Product and Company News Google Cloud released MedLM language models for healthcare and life sciences. Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health selected Arcadia data analytics to supports its Medicare Shared Savings Program. Diagnostic software maker Dedalus adopted CAST Highlight for risk analysis of open source software.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Analysis finds uptick in telehealth fraud enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey put forward by the national healthcare, life science and workforce management law firm Epstein Becker Green found that telemental health services have increased in quantity this year – as have fraud-related enforcement actions at the state and federal levels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

A landmark clinical trial in which drugs are given solely on the basis of genetic markers identified in the cancer tissue itself is the NCI-MATCH Trial (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice). Opportunities thus exist for life sciences and technology companies to develop products for this new therapeutic approach. Social Media.