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Global IT outage takes down health system EHRs, forces hospitals to cancel non-emergency services

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A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency | A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency procedures and services.

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CrowdStrike outage hits US hospitals

Health Care Dive

The cybersecurity firm released what was meant to be a routine software update, but now health systems, including CommonSpirit Health and Cleveland Clinic, are locked out of Windows systems.

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Bon Secours taps Philips for 10-year patient monitoring collaboration

Healthcare It News

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health is teaming up with Royal Philips to implement and scale a new patient monitoring platform over the next three years – and then monitor it over the following seven. WHY IT MATTERS One of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems, BSMH has more than 1,200 care sites and 49 hospitals across Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as in Ireland.

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How to Perform an SEO Competitor Analysis for Healthcare

Healthcare Success

The battle for the top position on Google search engine page results (SERPs) gets more difficult each year. As a result, you'll need to gain a deeper understanding of your primary and secondary competitors before you can start any new website build, redesign, restructuring project, or digital marketing campaign. You’ll need a competitor analysis for SEO.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Optum lays off more employees at Landmark, OptumInsight

Fierce Healthcare

The sprawling enterprise that is UnitedHealth Group is undergoing more layoffs under its Optum umbrella. | UnitedHealth's Optum is again laying off workers, with the scope unconfirmed. Landmark Health is downsizing once again and leaving major metropolitan areas.

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Steward executives cashed in prior to bankruptcy filing

Health Care Dive

Fourteen executives received over $1 million in total compensation the year before Steward entered Chapter 11 restructuring, bankruptcy documents show.

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Olympics 2024 Anti-Doping: Why Innovation in Testing Is Key

HIT Consultant

Gabe Baida, Executive Director at InnoVero As we approach the 2024 Summer Olympics, ensuring a clean game is a major priority for the International Olympic Committee. More than 1,000 people will be involved in various anti-doping testing stages, including chaperones, sample collection personnel, and dedicated anti-doping control spaces at each competition venue.

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Atropos compares how well leading LLMs generate clinical evidence

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A new study released by healthcare AI company Atropos found that general purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are not fit for use in clinical decisionmaking. | Healthcare AI company Atropos conducted a study to test how reliably ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, OpenEvidence and its own model, ChatRWD, answer clinicians' questions. General use LLMs did not fare well.

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UnitedHealth’s cyberattack response costs to surpass $2.3B this year

Health Care Dive

The healthcare giant’s new estimate is roughly $1 billion higher than previous forecasts as the cyberattack on subsidiary Change Healthcare continues to hamper its profit outlook.

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Remote patient monitoring reduces blood pressure for patients in New York State

Healthcare It News

Hypertension, the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affects 1.39 billion adults worldwide and has a 46% uncontrolled rate. That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. THE PROBLEM Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to recurrent heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and death.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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90% of Healthcare Insurers Struggle to Get Insights from Data – Is AI the Answer?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know – A new study by ActiveOps, a leader in AI-powered decision intelligence, paints a concerning picture of the US healthcare insurance industry drowning in data yet thirsty for insights. The crux of the problem? Critical decision-making is hampered by a severe lack of data accessibility, context, and trust. – The ActiveOps study was commissioned Censuswide to survey Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Senior Heads of Operations within the US hea

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UnitedHealth reaffirms guidance as it posts $4.2B in Q2 profit

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UnitedHealth Group has bounced back in the second quarter, reaffirming its guidance | UnitedHealth Group has bounced back in the second quarter, reaffirming its guidance for the year as it posts a profit of $4.2 billion.

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Humana inks minority investment in Medicare choice tool Healthpilot

Health Care Dive

The company uses AI to recommend Medicare Advantage, Medicare supplement and prescription drug plans based on enrollees’ healthcare preferences and needs.

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Advanced imaging improves experiences and treatment

Healthcare It News

Kaiser Permanente Georgia is getting more patients booked and into imaging, thanks to new equipment that completes PT scans in half the time. It's also improving patient experiences and reducing duplication, says Heidi Veltman, VP & COO.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Crossing the Digital Divide to Serve Medicaid Populations

HIT Consultant

Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-founder, Babyscripts A discussion of technology and the Medicaid population inevitably raises the topic of the digital divide — that is, the gap between people who have access to modern information and communications technology (ICTs) and those who don’t. “We can’t deliver internet-dependent solutions to Medicaid enrollees because they don’t have access to the internet.

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Northwell Health teams up with Instacart to scale food-as-health programs

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Grocery delivery company Instacart continues to expand its reach in healthcare and has notched a major health system partnership. | The first program to launch integrates Instacart Health tools into Northwell’s Center for Maternal Health Maternal Outcomes and Morbidity Collaborative (MOMS) so that moms-to-be who are food insecure have improved access to fresh and nutritious food.

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Chicago children’s hospital faces class action suits after cyberattack

Health Care Dive

Multiple lawsuits were filed last week after Lurie Children’s Hospital reported a cyberattack earlier this year may have exposed data of more than 775,000 people.

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Post-acute care at home in a hybrid model

Healthcare It News

By partnering with health systems to support hybrid care models, long-term care facilities can mitigate staff shortages of staff and better manage available beds, explains Joe O'Brien, head of sales, digital health at LG Electronics.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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6 Ways to Sharpen Your Skills As a Medical Professional

HIT Consultant

For medical professionals, maintaining high-quality care in a field that is developing quickly is a constant struggle. To keep ahead of the ever-evolving landscape, they must constantly hone their talents. Lifelong learning is more than just a trendy idea; it’s a necessity for keeping up with technology improvements and satisfying patients’ ever-growing expectations.

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Healthcare costs set to rise by as much as 8% in 2025: PwC

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Healthcare costs are set to rise between 7% and 8% in 2025, according to a new report from PwC. | Healthcare costs are set to rise between 7% and 8% in 2025, according to a new report from PwC.

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Elevance hits $2.3B in profit but trims long-term guidance

Health Care Dive

Elevance beat Wall Street expectations in second-quarter results posted Wednesday, despite steep Medicaid membership losses that are affecting revenue forecasts.

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Digital therapeutics - European style

Healthcare It News

Eversana and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance analyze, map and report on reimbursement frameworks in Europe for digital therapeutics. Alberta Spreafico, SVP of health innovation at Eversana, explains.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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UnitedHealth Group Touts In-Home Visits As Amedisys Deal Lingers 

Home Health Care

The home remains a strategic focal point for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), which is still in the process of acquiring the home health giant Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED). Last year, the company’s medical professionals achieved 2.5 million home visits through Medicare Advantage (MA). “As a direct result, our clinicians identified 300,000 seniors with emergent health needs that may otherwise have gone undiagnosed,” UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said Tuesday during the company’s second-quart

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AI-generated messages to patients on par with clinicians, and can even be more empathetic, study finds

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Electronic health record messages to patients drafted by generative AI were of similar quality and accuracy to those written by healthcare professionals, according to a newly published study conduc | A blind analysis of hundreds of EHR message drafts found similar quality and usability. Generative AI's contributions were more empathetic, but also tended to be longer and more linguistically complex.

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Instacart partners with Northwell Health to bolster food access

Health Care Dive

The tie-up with New York’s largest healthcare provider is focusing first on supporting expecting mothers in Black and Brown communities who are food insecure.

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AliveCor Receives Category III CPT Codes for AI-Powered Kardia 12L ECG

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AliveCor , the global leader in AI-powered cardiology, today announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has granted new Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes that are applicable to the company’s Kardia™ 12L ECG System, which received FDA clearance in June 2024. – In accordance with the AMA semi-annual early release schedule, the new codes will be effective January 1st, 2025 and published in the 2025 CPT Code book.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Enhabit Teases Improvements In Home Health, Hospice Segments

Home Health Care

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) continues to improve its financial standing and position with Medicare Advantage (MA) partners as it battles with the activist investor AREX Capital Management. The company released an early snapshot of its second-quarter earnings on Monday, ahead of the full, audited release of earnings on Aug. 6. Of Enhabit’s non-Medicare visits, 43% are now under payer innovation contracts at “improved rates,” according to the company.

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The states with the best and worst women's health outcomes, per new scorecard

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A new nationwide scorecard ranks the state of women’s health and reproductive care. The results reveal a deep geographic divide in women’s healthcare access and outcomes. | The state-by-state rankings found “significant” disparities between states and deepening racial and ethnic gaps in outcomes. The findings suggest these gaps could widen further, especially for women of color and those with low incomes in states with restricted access to reproductive care.

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Healthcare is an ‘easy victim’ for ransomware attacks. How hospitals can mitigate the damage.

Health Care Dive

Limited resources in a highly connected ecosystem can make hospitals vulnerable, but planning ahead and implementing key protections could help thwart attack.

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Viome Launches the First Personalized Toothpaste that Supports Whole-Body Health Using Biotic Data & AI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Viome , a leading provider of personalized microbiome health products and solutions, today unveiled its pioneering VRx MyBiotics Toothpaste & Gel to complete its Oral Health Solution system, setting a new standard for daily oral care and support overall health. – This innovative product utilizes the unprecedented oral health insights from the Oral Health Intelligence™ Test (also available with Full Body Intelligence™ ) to create a personalized toothpas

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.