Rafid Fadul, MD, Co-Founder & CEO, Zivian Health
On July 4, 2025, the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) was signed into law. Its backers hailed it as a vehicle for growth, while critics called…
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"Checks in the mail” isn’t just slow — it’s dangerous. Bill Clausen breaks down the cascade of risks from paper checks (routing/account numbers, interception, duplication) and how ECHO’s processes and EchoGuard shorten that attack…
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Every organization—large and small—can benefit from automating payments versus printing, signing, and sending paper checks. ECHO is helping health care provider organizations and their vendors move away from paper checks to electronic payments like…
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These Security Policy Changes Should Be on Health Systems’ Radar
In June, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado introduced the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2025 in the House of Representatives….
Health digital twin MOU signing (left to right) Mike Bishop, chief operating officer at Kidney Research UK,
Gareth Scargill, director at Nexus,
Amy Lochtie – West Yorkshire ICB Innovation Hub director, Laura Boyd, director of digital…
Details of the Proposed Legislation
Majority Leader John Thune announced that the Senate will conduct a second vote on September 30 regarding a House-passed continuing resolution designed to maintain federal government operations through November 21,…
Staffing at health care providers, especially for IT, is being challenged on many fronts. Inflation is up while Medicaid has been significantly cut. New technologies such as AI call for new types of staffing…
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It started with a phony bill.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, much of University of Vermont Health Network’s nonclinical workforce shifted to remote work. An employee’s daughter received an email she believed was from her homeowners…
Opioids are frequently overprescribed after surgery. We applied a tabular foundation model to predict the risk of post-discharge opioid consumption. The model was trained and internally validated on an 80:20 training/test split of the…
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Carla Nelson, Sr. Director of Healthcare and Public Policy at Findhelp
The Senate Finance Committee released its version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” but social safety net providers and managed care organizations (MCOs) are…
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