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Ascension’s 140 hospitals in 19 states remain offline following a ransomware attack on Thursday. An unstated number of the facilities are diverting ambulances.
The health system says restoring the systems “will take some time…
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Ascension’s 140 hospitals and 2,600 healthcare sites in 19 states divert patients and go back to paper documentation following an unspecified cybersecurity event that forced the health system to take down “select technology…
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The American Medical Informatics Association is working with the Patient ID Now Coalition to persuade members of Congress to reject language in Section 510 of a 2025 appropriations bill that continues to ban the…
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The American Hospital Association asks Congress to employ flexibility in any decisions to regulate AI in healthcare, proposing use of a sliding scale that is based on risk and the level of human oversight…
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Russ Thomas, JD is CEO of Availity of Jacksonville, FL.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
Availity connects health plans and providers for their critical business workflows. Most people would call that a clearinghouse,…
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Multi-state hospital operator Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and seeks up to $300 million in financing to keep the doors of its 31 remaining hospitals open.
The company blames…
I volunteer as an instructor at an outdoor school every few months, but I ended up missing a full year of sessions due to schedule conflicts. This weekend, I was back at it….
It’s Time to Rethink Healthcare’s Reliance on Legacy Tech Amid CyberattacksBy Tom Furr
Tom Furr is founder and CEO of PatientPay of Durham, NC.
One of the biggest questions surrounding a large-scale cyberattack…
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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asks the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to investigate the pricing algorithms that are used by MultiPlan to reduce insurer payments to providers for out-of-network claims.
The senator questions…
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UnitedHealth Group CEO Sir Andrew Witty tells the Senate Finance Committee – which was questioning him about the Change Healthcare cyberattack – that the half-trillion dollar market cap UHG isn’t all that big….
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