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A ransomware group claims that its cyberattack against Change Healthcare yielded 8 terabytes of data from every provider that sends data to Change, including medical records, insurance records, and data from active military…
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By Shania Kennedy
February 27, 2024 – Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) have developed a natural language processing (NLP) framework to improve the efficiency and reliability of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven medical text summarization tools.
The medical…
Pharmacy chains across the country are facing disruptions due to a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a Nashville-based company that processes patient payments for healthcare organizations.
Change Healthcare is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of insurance…
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Change Healthcare disconnects its systems after detecting a cybersecurity issue early Wednesday that has since compromised the ability of military and retail pharmacies nationwide to process prescription payments through insurance. Athenahealth customers are…
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– Remodel Health announced today the acquisition of PeopleKeep, a leading provider of Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs). Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
– The acquisition marks a…
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What You Should Know:
– Strive Health, the national leader in value-based kidney care, and Medical Mutual, one of the largest Ohio-based health insurance companies, announced a new value-based kidney care partnership.
– The strategic collaboration…
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.Zocdoc, leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for patients to find and book in-person or virtual care across over 250 specialties and more than 18,000 insurance plans, today introduced Guided Search.This…
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The decisions health insurance executives make reverberate across the healthcare industry. Reimbursement policies, billing practices, the decisions that govern which technologies to adopt affect members, physician practices, hospitals and health systems. The Biden administration…
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When insurtech Bright Health Group first emerged back in 2015, it had bold goals of disrupting the insurance industry by leveraging technology. It raised a whopping $2.4 billion — including from Cigna Ventures — and went…
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I appreciate the fact that my health system of choice promptly shares visit notes with its patients. I’m less appreciative, however, of the fact that some physicians continue to refuse to follow documentation best…
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