Multiple lawsuits accuse Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company Point32Health of “willful failure” to uphold their responsibilities to protect personally identifiable information and protected health information.WHY IT MATTERS
Attorneys for Valeria Salerno Gonzales,…
Interoperability is one of the biggest and longest-standing challenges in healthcare. Government policymakers and private-sector companies of all shapes and sizes have been working on the problem for decades, offering all manner of approaches…
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Pharmacy-only medicines can now be accessed via new smart vending machines at Changi General Hospital.Developed by pharmacists, the Pharmacy Smart Interface System (PharmaSis) has been authorised by the Health Sciences Authority in April to…
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Uber Health announced that payers and providers nationwide can soon use the same platform they may already use for non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery to order and deliver other covered items directly to…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s stance on prescribing via telehealth has been evolving, with hints toward an appetite for lasting flexibilities. This, among other policy shifts, has a direct impact on healthcare provider organizations…
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A new joint federal cybersecurity warning says that the Clop Ransomware Gang, also known as TA505, began exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability this past month in one of Progress Software’s managed file transfer tools,…
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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India is now looking into reports of an alleged data leak from the COVID-19 vaccination platform Covid Vaccine Intelligent Network or Co-WIN.WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Several media reports…
New Zealand’s national health information platform Hira has released a new FHIR-based API that will allow users to access more information about their medicines on the platform. The medicines consumer view API provides access to the…
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GE Healthcare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Sonic DL, which leverages a neural network to accelerate image acquisition in magnetic resonance imaging, for healthcare use. WHY IT MATTERS
The need for…
A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals…
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