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HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.

OIG made six recommendations to HHS:

  1. Update its inventory of enterprise architecture and software / hardware.
  2. Complete the implementation of a cybersecurity risk management strategy.
  3. Require operating divisions to assess the security impacts of planned changes.
  4. Implement a supply chain risk management program.
  5. Establish oversight of background investigations of employees and contractors.
  6. Use automation to review the logging and activity of privileged user accounts .

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I applied several sources of matching, including dollar-for-dollar money provided by my Anonymous Vendor Executive, to the annual donation of reader Mark to fully fund these Donors Choose teacher grant requests. I was reading today that teachers, who aren’t necessarily richly compensated in the first place, spend an average of nearly $1,000 of their own money each year to buy supplies and resources for their students, so the funded projects below are kind of a big deal:

  • STEM activities for Ms. N’s high school class in Hatch, NM.
  • Dry erase boards and markers for Ms. A’s elementary school class in San Juan, TX.
  • Overhead lighting filters for Ms. P’s high school computer lab in Las Vegas, NV.
  • Reading and math manipulatives from Ms. S’s kindergarten class in Wailuku, HI.
  • Hands-on STEM activities for Mr. F’s middle school class in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Laboratory safety supplies for Ms. V’s middle school class in Casa Grande, AZ.
  • Drone supplies for Mr. D’s middle school class in Enid, OK.
  • Science binders and supplies for Ms. O’s middle school class in Wilson, NC.
  • Books, snacks, and classroom supplies for first-year teacher Ms. B’s elementary school class in Rocky Mount, NC.
  • Headphones with microphones for Ms. E’s elementary school class in Chicago, IL.
  • A virtual documentary workshop from a PBS documentary filmmaker for Dr. H’s high school early college class in Bronx, NY.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

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Care coordination software vendor ThoroughCare raises $5 million in Series A funding.


Sales

  • Lee Health (FL) will implement remote patient monitoring technology from Biofourmis as a part of its new Hospital at Home program.
  • Tenet Healthcare will deploy Commure’s AI medical scribe software across its Tenet Physician Resources physician network.

People

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John Supra, MS (UpStream) joins Cone Health (NC) as chief digital health and analytics officer.

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Guidehouse names Mark Korth. MHA, MBA (Intermountain Healthcare) and Angela Hunt, RN, MBA (Vizient) partners in its health segment.

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Virtual second opinion provider The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic appoints David Peter, MD, MBA – who was interim president, VP, and chief medical officer of Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital – to chief medical officer.

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Fairfax Radiology Centers promotes Terry Johnson, MA, MBA to CIO.

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Memorial Hermann Health System promotes Oliver Galicki, MHSA to VP of clinical applications.

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Matt Ripkey (Redox) joins Blockit as VP of sales and marketing.

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Episode Solutions promotes Kyle Cooksey to president and CEO.


Announcements and Implementations

Emory Healthcare (GA) will launch a population health collaborative across its primary care network using technology and value-based managed care services from Guidehealth.

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Arcadia announces GA of Vista Push automated performance analytics and Enhanced Benchmarks, which incorporate recently acquired CareJourney’s market intelligence and analytics.

EHR vendor Canvas Medical announces Anova, an EHR for longevity medicine.

The Digital Medicine Society launches its International Regulatory Pathways project to help digital health technology developers understand country-specific regulatory insights to get products to market faster.

Smart ring maker Oura will integrate glucose biosensing data from Dexcom, which will invest $75 million in Oura’s Series D funding round. Oura says that 97% of its users are interested in the effect of food on their health.

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In Scotland, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital is piloting Kinetic-ID’s Bedside Intelligent Cabinet for patient self-administration of medications. The hospital will explore integration with its EHR to keep prescriptions current.


Other

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Sanford Health (SD) opens its new Virtual Care Center, which offers areas for provider education and training, innovation, and patient and family experience. Accelerator rooms are also available for digital health startups that want to partner with Sanford on scaling their products.


Sponsor Updates

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  • AdvancedMD employees volunteer at the St. Vincent Dining Hall, Utah Food Bank, and the Green Urban Lunchbox organization during the company’s Day of Caring.
  • Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia implements Altera Digital Health’s IQemo electronic chemotherapy prescribing solution.
  • Augmedix offers a new case study, “Augmedix in Primary Care: Enhancing Efficiency and Patient Engagement.”
  • The WellSky Foundation donates $200,000 from its Week of Giving teammate project that will be used to furnish 75 new bedrooms that are operated by Kansas City-based non-profit Amethyst Place, which provides support services to single mothers and their children. 
  • Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Searching for Answers – Understanding Transparency, Alignment, and Incentives in Healthcare with Andrew Gordon.”
  • AMIA honors Clinical Architecture CEO Charlie Harp with its Leadership Award.
  • CloudWave will sponsor the annual Rural Health Association of Tennessee Conference November 20-22 in Knoxville.
  • Wolters Kluwer Health releases the results of its third “Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends” survey.
  • Surescripts expands its Sig IQ technology, first introduced for Medication History in 2022, to e-prescribing transactions, including NewRx and RxRenewal Requests and Responses.

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Currently there is "1 comment" on this Article:

  1. “HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.”

    Well I have confidence the snake-oil peddlers that are about to be installed by fiat will make sure this gets fixed.

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