Data Breach at Louisiana Healthcare Provider Impacts 270,000 Patients
Lake Charles Memorial Health System begins notifying 270,000 patients that their information was compromised in an October 20 ransomware attack.
Sexual assault nurse examiners are using telehealth to help with examinations and evidence collection.
Settlement: Scripps Health agrees to pay $3.5 million to patients affected in 2021 data breach
The health system settles with the 1 million patients who were affected by a May 2021 ransomware attack.
Analysis of the data of 100,000 stroke patients suggests that 48% made a full recovery when AI was used to diagnose and treat them faster, versus 16% without the technology.
Ohio Supreme Court says insurance policy does not cover ransomware attack on software
The Ohio Supreme Court overrules a previous ruling that the property insurer of medical billing software vendor EMOI should cover a ransomware attack.
The local paper reports that the cost of extra staff who have been hired to offset a loss of productivity with Oracle-Cerner has delayed care and pushed veterans into the private healthcare system.
A private equity firm acquires Calyx, which offers medical imaging, interactive response, and clinical trials management software.
Patient access to full general practice health records
An editorial in BMJ calls for NHS England to move head with its delayed program to give patients access to their records, saying that patients will need to become more self-reliant as access to care in the UK continues to worsen.
HHS publishes ownership data for all 7,000 Medicare-certified hospitals.
The omnibus appropriations bill includes a two-year extension for Medicare telehealth provisions and two-year delay in implementing the in-person requirement, although it would not extend the Ryan Haight waiver for remote prescribing of controlled substances.
HHS proposes to adopt standards for health care attachment transactions for claims and prior authorizations.
HHS urges prompt patch of critical Citrix flaw after healthcare entities exploited
HHS warns that a vulnerability in Application Delivery Controller and Gateway has allowed hackers to compromise multiple healthcare entities by executing commands without being authenticated.
RWJBarnabas Health announces the hiring or promotion of five C-level executives, three of whom are pharmacists, including former SVP/Chief Pharmacy Officer Robert Adamson, PharmD, who as EVP/CIO will serve as operational leader for its Epic implementation.
GAO Makes Appointments to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee
The General Accounting Office appoints seven members to HITAC.
Fujifilm will expand its Synapse Enterprise Imaging with the integration of pathology images and data using the technology of Tampa-based Inspirata.
Google can now read your doctor’s bad handwriting
Google is working with pharmacists in India to decipher handwritten prescriptions by snapping a photo of the document that is then analyzed by Google Lens.
The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment
A Wall Street Journal report finds that investor-backed digital mental health services have sacrificed quality in their focus on growth, advertising, and the use of questionably qualified contractors.
A US District Court invalidates the patents of non-practicing entity (patent troll) Decapolis Systems, which had sued Epic customers in claiming patent infringement, after Epic files a declaratory judgment lawsuit in the company’s South Florida home town.
‘A loss for the hospitality industry’: Annual Cerner convention will leave Kansas City
The event that was formerly known as the Cerner Health Conference will move to Las Vegas next year as part of the Oracle CloudWorld Conference.
The DEA seeks to determine whether or not online pharmacy Truepill illegally filled prescriptions by exceeding 90-day supply limits and/or filled prescriptions written by prescribers without proper state licensing.
Sanford releases notice of ‘data event’
Sanford Health (SD) notifies patients of a data breach stemming from a cybersecurity incident involving third-party vendor AAA Collections.
Virtual chronic pain solution vendor Override raises $3.5 million in seed funding, some of which has been used to acquire pain management coaching business Take Courage Coaching.
Fortified Health Security announces an unspecified growth investment from two investment firms and Nordic Consulting.
CMS Responding to Data Breach at Subcontractor
CMS notifies 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries of an October data breach resulting from a ransomware attack on subcontractor Healthcare Management Solutions.
Dublin startup IncludeHealth raises $10.7M, lands Yale Med as client
Virtual physical therapy software vendor IncludeHealth secures $11 million in financing and announces new customer Yale New Haven Health.
Komodo Health, once tipped for a looming IPO, has cut staff as CFO departs
De-identified patient data and analytics company Komodo Health attempts to streamline operations with a $200 million equity infusion, delayed IPO plans, layoffs, and the exit of its CFO.
Telehealth Visits Unlikely to Require In-Person Follow-Up Within 90 Days
After analyzing 35 million specialty telemedicine visits conducted over a two-year period, Epic researchers determine that the majority did not require an in-person, follow-up visit within the next three months
An analysis of 50 direct-to-consumer telehealth sites finds that 35 share personal information with big tech advertising platforms, and 13 send answers to potentially sensitive user questionnaires.
Cyberattack Hits Brooklyn Hospitals That Serve Poor New Yorkers
One Brooklyn Health continues to bring systems back online at its three hospitals after a November 19 cybersecurity incident.
CorroHealth and Versalus Health Join Forces to Bring More Solutions to Hospitals
CorroHealth, parent brand of TrustHCS, T-System, Visionary RCM, and RevCycle+, acquires healthcare analytics and physician advisory services company Versalus Health.
Oracle Sales Top Estimates on Growth at Cerner Health-Records Unit
Cerner’s $1.5 billion in quarterly sales help parent company Oracle’s sales jump 18% to $12.3 billion.
Commons Clinic clinches $11M for specialty care
Commons Clinic, which is building out a network of specialty physician practices that will offer integrated virtual care programs, raises $11 million in seed funding.
Semler Announces Investment in Monarch Medical Technologies
Semler Scientific will invest up to $5 million in digital diabetes management company Monarch Medical Technologies.
Epic Launches Connection Hub: Open to All Developers
Epic announces that it will shut down its App Market until sometime next year, and that it will launch Connection Hub on January 9, enabling software vendors that connect to Epic to list their apps and self-report the successful exchange of data.
VA will use Silicon Valley hiring spree to bring fresh talent into EHR program, CIO DelBene says
The VA plans to hire 1,000 new employees to work on its Oracle Cerner implementation as it recruits from Silicon Valley.
Tech-enabled healthcare provider Juno Medical raises $12 million in a Series A round, enabling it to expand into Atlanta, Tulsa, and Los Angeles.
CompuGroup Medical confirms market-leading position with strategic acquisition of Medicus LIS
CompuGroup Medical acquires Medicus, adding a fourth laboratory information system to its roster that includes Labdaq, Schuylab, and AP Easy.
Voice-based health monitoring company Sonde Health raises $19 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $35 million.
CereCore expands healthcare technology services into the UK
CereCore expands its health IT services to the United Kingdom.
SaVia Health Raises $8.5M in Seed Funding
SaVia Health, which offers software that converts paper-based care pathway information into EHR-friendly clinical decision support content, raises $8.5 million.
Apple scores victory in dispute over heart monitoring technologies in Apple Watch
AliveCor will appeal a patent court ruling that has found three of its patents covering heart monitoring technologies for wearable devices are unpatentable, negating its allegation that Apple copied those technologies for use in the Apple Watch.
Theranos exec Sunny Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison for defrauding patients and investors
Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani is sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of 12 charges related to defrauding investors and patients and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Blaze Advisors Rebrands as Alera Health
Population health management consulting firm Blaze Advisors rebrands to Alera Health.
ACM medical clinic closed in Clarksville as employees go without pay, lose access to records
Advance Care Medical employees in Clarksville, TN close the clinic after corporate owner Healthcare Solutions Management Group stopped paying them – and the bill for the clinic’s EHR – on October 1.
Carle Health Partners with Health Catalyst to Achieve Data-Informed Improvement
Carle Health (IL) will transition its Clinical and Business Intelligence team to employment with Health Catalyst, which will continue to provide it with analytical support through 2028.
Amazon to End Support Next Week for Third Party Healthcare Alexa Skills with HIPAA Requirements
Citing ongoing evaluation of its offerings and less than a month out from layoffs within its Alexa division, Amazon tells third-party developers that it will stop supporting Alexa 3P HIPAA-eligible skills on December 9.
CMS Proposes Rule to Expand Access to Health Information and Improve the Prior Authorization Process
CMS publishes a proposed rule that would require some payers to implement digital prior authorization processes, shorten the time frame to reply to PA requests, and establish payer-to-payer data exchange, among several other requirements.
Rhythm Management Group Announces Acquisition of Equis Consulting Group
Remote patient monitoring consulting and management company Rhythm Management Group acquires competitor Equis Consulting Group.
Medication Intelligence Leader Kit Check Rebrands as Bluesight
Medication supply chain software vendor Kit Check changes its name to Bluesight.
UCSF is First to Integrate Records Across Medical and Dental
University of California San Francisco Health and UCSF Dentistry announce they have become the first academic health system in the West to merge medical and dental records into one EHR.
National 988 mental health hotline back up after outage
The FCC and HHS will investigate the cause of the daylong outage of the national mental health emergency phone hotline, which is managed by emergency communications software vendor Intrado.
Telehealth department dissolving, Marshfield Clinic Health System facing financial difficulties
Citing financial reasons – some of which stem from the expense of its new EHR, Marshfield Clinic Health System (WI) lays off 18 employees as its closes down its telehealth service.
Hackers dump more customer data from Australian insurer Medibank
Hackers release onto the dark web what they say is the entirety of Medibank patient data stolen in an early November ransomware attack.
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