Senators Hawley and Blumenthal asked UnitedHealth Group how Change Healthcare’s systems were breached, why the clearinghouse suffered “such an egregious and unexplained outage” and the extent of data compromised in the ransomware attack. Powered by WPeMatico
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center now relies on videos as part of its virtual care program to educate patients. One of many benefits: It has reduced inbound patient questions – for every 15 questions nurses used to get, now they get only one. Powered by WPeMatico
The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations’ IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments. Powered by WPeMatico
Hamish Steel, the 23-year-old founder of Australia’s Digital Health Festival, says there are massive opportunities out there to accelerate Australian healthcare’s digitalisation. Powered by WPeMatico
Also: Cohere Health expedites prior auth through Epic’s Payer Platform Powered by WPeMatico
Meanwhile, it’s already finding success with AI-enabled patient portals – and ambient scribing is showing big promise too. The Baltimore health system’s digital health physician leader explains. Powered by WPeMatico
Poorly controlled cloud environments, growing access to systems, heightened regulatory scrutiny and significant deals activity will require healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders to bolster the defenses. Powered by WPeMatico
Also, New Zealand’s My Health Record has expanded access to more personal health information. Powered by WPeMatico
Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking. Powered by WPeMatico
S.A.R.A.H. is a 24/7 digital health promoter prototype, available by video or text in eight languages, trained with biological artificial intelligence to provide health information, including mental health resources. Powered by WPeMatico
