Andrea Fox
Cybersecurity roundup: MedSec offers hospitals risk support; global study links cyber performance t…
Also: CloudWave and FDA extend their threat intelligence partnership to offer an open-source vendor assessment framework.
With AI-powered pharmaco-clinical intelligence, the not-for-profit health system aims to identify and monitor high-risk polypharmacy patients and recommend clinical Interventions.
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.
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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.
Also: Cohere Health expedites prior auth through Epic's Payer Platform
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.
The health system's new remote acute care unit aims to improve healthcare access and equity for eligible patients with daily clinical home visits and remote patient monitoring through its Medically Home technology.
Through bidirectional integration with Epic, the Chicago-based health system will trial Suki's AI assistance across workflows in 30 specialties, which could achieve a 72% reduction in time spent on clinical documentation, the company said.
Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders urged the agency to release its regulatory scheme for the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth.
Now that participation among multiple QHINs is allowed under TEFCA, The Sequoia Project addresses how cybersecurity requirements apply to all entities exchanging protected health data.