| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.05.2024 | symplr Appoints Healthcare Leader Justin Jacobson to Lead Contract & Supplier Management | www.symplr.com
Seasoned veteran to enhance corporate focus on innovation, integration & growth
HOUSTON, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- symplr®, a leading provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, today announced the app... |
| 13.05.2024 | Legal battle over health costs could change workplace benefits | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
An emerging legal battle over workplace health insurance could empower employees to fight back against high costs and put new pressure on their employers.
Why it matters: Workers fed up with rising he... |
| 02.05.2024 | Health | US lawmakers slam UnitedHealth’s cybersecurity, call the company ‘a monopoly on steroids’ | “The Change hack is a dire warning about the consequences of ‘too big to fail’ mega-corporations gobbling up larger and larger shares of the health care system,” Wyden said. “It is long past time to do a comprehensive scrub of UHG’s anti-co... |
| 01.05.2024 | UnitedHealth Tightens Security After Cyberattack: MFA Now on All Exposed Systems | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 01 May 2024, 06:05 pm
Following the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that all its internet-exposed systems now use multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Cyb... |
| 16.04.2024 | UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare cyberattack cost it $872 million | A cyberattack earlier this year against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary has proved costly for one of the nation's largest employers.
The health insurance giant on Tuesday noted $872 million in "unfavorable cyberattack effects" in ... |
| 10.04.2024 | The 2023 State of Inclusion Benchmark in Cybersecurity Report Reveals Women Face 2X More Exclusion than Men in the Workplace | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)
New study offers an in-depth look at the experiences of women in cybersecurity and highlights areas for industry-wide improvement.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Women in CyberSecurity... |
| 04.04.2024 | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Announces 2024 Conference Keynotes | WiCyS 2024 Conference
Lisa Einstein, Kimberly Becan, Morgan Adamski, Esmeralda lyescas and Deborah Frincke bring unique insights to help advance women in cybersecurity.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Women in Cybe... |
| 28.03.2024 | Float Raises $10 Million Series A to Treat Chronic Illness and Alleviate Growing Strain on our Healthcare System | Float Health moves all the care that doesn't need a hospital to the home
At a time of hospital overcrowding, rising nursing burnout, and surging chronic illnesses, Float benefits patients, nurses, prescribers, pharmacies, payers, and health... |
| 26.03.2024 | WiCyS and ISC2 Launch Spring Camp for Cybersecurity Certification | WiCyS + ISC2 Certified in CybersecuritySM Certification Spring Camp
In partnership with ISC2, the world's leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), the nonprofit organization dedi... |
| 14.03.2024 | Global Medication Management System Market Forecast 2024-2033 – Market Size, Drivers, Trends, And Competitors | Global Medication Management System Market Forecast 2024-2033 – Market Size, Drivers, Trends, And Competitors
The Business Research Company's Medication Management System Global Market Report 2024 – Market Size, Trends, And Global Forecast ... |
| 12.03.2024 | Beam, the enterprise brand management SaaS platform, launches as an independent company | Previously a part of Monigle Inc., Beam will now go to market as its own entity, poised for explosive growth
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 12, 2024–
Today, Monigle, the 52-year-old Denver-based branding agency, officially announced that Beam... |
| 12.03.2024 | Global Healthcare Fraud Detection Market Report 2024-2028 & 2033 - Tech Advancements and Regulatory Shifts Driving the Market to $10.35 Billion by 2028 | - |
| 11.03.2024 | Global Nursing Resource Allocation Market Size to Hit US$ 3.83 Billion by 2030 - Unleashing Key Market Insights | The Global Nursing Resource Allocation Market size is expected to reach US$ 3.83 Billion by 2030, from US$ 1.98 Billion in 2023, at a CAGR of 9.9% during the forecast period.”
— CoherentMIBURLINGAME, CA 94010, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2024 ... |
| 09.03.2024 | As the Change Healthcare outage drags on, fears grow that patient data could spill online | A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a row.
Hospitals have been unable to check insurance benefits of in-patient stays, handle the prior aut... |
| 09.03.2024 | Healthcare Cyberattack Affects Claims Submission and Payment | FEB 28, 2024
Last updated on March 8, 2024
Read the Academy's March 4 Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra (PDF) The Academy has provided information to help you respond to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group, Optum, and Change Healthc... |
| 08.03.2024 | Healthcare EDI Market Size to Worth USD 6 billion by 2030| With a 8 % CAGR by Exactitude Consultancy | Healthcare EDI Market
𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐃𝐈 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞-McKesson Corporation (US), Optum (US), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. (
Demand for Healthcare Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions is on the rise, driven by the need fo... |
| 08.03.2024 | Biden team, UnitedHealth struggle to restore paralyzed billing systems after cyberattack | Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, California, is in a bind.
Since a Feb. 21 cyberattack on a previously obscure medical payment processing company, Change Healthcare, Parsons said, she and ... |
| 07.03.2024 | Change Healthcare Attack: UHG Announces Restoration Timeline & Provider Relief | What You Should Know:
– UnitedHealth Group (UHG) announced today significant progress in restoring Change Healthcare systems following a cyberattack that disrupted healthcare claims and payment processes nationwide.
– UHG urges all payers t... |
| 07.03.2024 | Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack | It’s been more than two weeks since Change Healthcare discovered it was hit by a cyberattack.
The aftermath remains messy — patients across the country continue to struggle to obtain their prescriptions, as many of the systems that provider... |
| 07.03.2024 | WiCyS Partners with Cyber Florida and Cisco to Tell A Story of Women in CyberSecurity | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), Cyber Florida and Cisco are honored to announce their partnership to help tell the story of women in the cybersecurity industry. The efforts will include a live session with Jen... |
| 06.03.2024 | Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Opens Registration for Virtual Conference: WiCyS Virtual 2024: Live from Everywhere | WiCyS Virtual 2024
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity, is thrilled to announce the commencement of registration for the highly a... |
| 05.03.2024 | Cyberattack paralyzes largest U.S. health care payment system | MADDIE MCGARVEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Molly Fulton, COO of five urgent care centers in the Columbus area, sits in the Worthington Urgent Care in Worthington, Ohio, on March 5. “This is worse than when COVID hit because even though we didn’t ge... |
| 04.03.2024 | eHealth Market to Surpass USD 230.64 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 14.5% | eHealth Market AMR
PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATE, March 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Allied Market Research has recently released a research study titled "eHealth Market: Global Outlook and Forecast 2023-2032." This report provides ... |
| 26.12.2023 | Business | How to use — and not lose — your FSA dollars as the end of year approaches | Christopher Snowbeck | Star Tribune (TNS)
While rushing to buy holiday gifts, don’t forget another deadline that comes for many consumers each December: spending down dollars in their health FSA account.
Flexible Spending Accounts (or Arran... |
| 15.09.2023 | Tech Moves: Former Fabric CEO joins HP as president and SVP of new division | Former Fabric CEO Faisal Masud joined HP as senior vice president and president of its HP Workforce Solutions team. (Fabric Photo)
— Faisal Masud, the former CEO of Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric, joined Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-P... |
| 14.09.2023 | Two New Strategic Appointments Strengthen Wayspring’s Leadership Team | Nashville, Tenn. September 14, 2023 — Wayspring, a value-based healthcare organization, proudly announces the addition of two seasoned professionals to its Leadership Team: Michelle Leonhardt as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations,... |
| 05.07.2023 | PUTT CALLS ON ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT TO FIND OPTUMRX CONTRACTS "UNCONSCIONABLE" FOLLOWING NEW WISCONSIN COURT RULING | Previous Illinois Appellate Court Ruling Would Harm Patients and Their Pharmacies Under “Unreasonable and Unconstitutional” Terms of Forced Arbitration
There can be no fair dealing between two parties to a contract when one party makes the ... |
| 27.04.2023 | Consumer Trust: How Healthcare Organizations Can Build Confidence with AI | Sanjeev Sawai, Chief Product and Technology Officer, mPulse Mobile
Trust is a vital component of healthcare. It impacts whether someone shows up for a doctor’s appointment, follows their treatment plan, or plays an active role in their heal... |
| 17.11.2022 | How Best Buy Is Creating Value With A Game-Changing Program For Employees Seeking Work Advice | Neurodivergent employees are signing up in record numbers to use a new program, run by predominantly ... [+] neurodivergent advisors, that supports the way they work. getty |
| 27.09.2022 | Can automation cure healthcare’s workforce challenges? | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Presented by Optum
The healthcare industry is still feeling the fallout from the COVID pandemic, which has not only pil... |
| 08.08.2022 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; August 8, 2022 | Monkeypox declares a public health emergency; Cera Care raises €310M; Optum partners with Sanofi
Top Health News
Medline, a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthca... |
| 26.07.2022 | The fight for techquity: Why business leaders need to address the barriers to healthtech | Presented by Optum
In 2021, healthcare company funding surged by 30%, breaking the $80 billion mark in the U.S. and Europe. IPOs tripled, M&A doubled, and 42 healthtech unicorns emerged — representing 157% more healthtech investment dol... |
| 30.06.2022 | Look For Your Next Big Opportunity In Healthcare Technology | Nicholas Domnisch is the CEO & Partner of EE Solutions, an NYC-based software development agency empowering innovation in digital health. |
| 10.06.2022 | The CMS fines health systems $1M+ for breaking price transparency rules—will they finally comply? | The news: Nearly 40% of healthcare execs agree price transparency is the healthcare industry’s greatest challenge this year, according to Optum’s new report surveying 150 health plan, provider, and employer clients.
Zooming out on the trend... |
| 09.03.2022 | Northwell Health turns to AI to improve revenue cycle management | The news: Northwell Health signed a 10-year partnership with clinical AI solutions company Clinithink to use its AI-powered natural language processing (NLP) solution (CLiX revenue) to improve revenue cycle management (RCM).
For context, No... |
| 19.01.2022 | You Can’t Quit-Proof Your Organization, But Virtual ‘Hugs’ Can Help | Leaders can improve retention by showing they care. getty |
| 06.01.2022 | At-home COVID-19 tests reselling at triple their retail price: report | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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| 28.12.2021 | Some of the biggest healthcare mergers and acquisitions of 2021 | They include deals from Microsoft, Humana, Optum, Intermountain, Oracle, and One Medical
After a hot 2020 in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, 2021 came out of the gate swinging, with over 30 new deals being announced in just the first t... |
| 17.12.2021 | Healthcare execs want to implement diagnostic AI—but providers still largely distrust it | The data: Nearly 72% of healthcare execs say they’d trust AI to support nonclinical, admin processes that take away time providers could be spending with patients, according to Optum’s fourth annual healthcare AI survey of 500 senior health... |
| 14.12.2021 | The Cambrian explosion and Darwinian effect on digital health startups | VCs from F-Prime, DCM, Initialized Capital, GSR, Optum, and Providence Ventures at Invent Health
Last month, Vator and UCSF Health Hub held their latest salon, called Invent Health Virtual Event - Primary Care and the New Medical QB, which ... |
| 30.11.2021 | Video: Disrupting the digital health establishment; What VCs and corporate strategists are financing | Invent Health Virtual Event Primary Care and the New Medical QB: Third Session
Moderators are Dr. Archana Dubey (CMO Consultant, HP; Chief Clinical Officer, AliveCor) and Bambi Francisco Roizen (Founder and CEO, Vator). Joining themKyle Lui... |
| 23.11.2021 | Sword Health vaults to $2B valuation as virtual physical therapy becomes need-to-have in employer-sponsored insurance | The news: Digital musculoskeletal startup Sword Health scored $163 million in a Series D funding Round—vaulting its valuation to nearly $2 billion.
More on Sword Health: Sword Health provides virtual physical therapy programs that help peop... |
| 10.11.2021 | Celebrating 11 Years of Producing Senior Events in Southern California, Golden Future Expos is bringing IN-PERSON 50+ Expo back to Angel Stadium | ANAHEIM, Calif. (PRWEB) November 10, 2021
This in-person event was created specifically for SoCal Baby Boomers and Seniors to explore options and resources available for retirement, learn about new products and services, and connect with ot... |
| 01.10.2021 | Medicare advantage, direct contracting, and the Medicare ‘Money Machine,' part 1: The risk-score game | While the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the past two years have seen another epidemic of a far different type-in financing and acquisitions of firms focused on serving Medicare beneficiaries. These firms include physician practices, notably prim... |
| 24.09.2021 | AI cancer diagnostic tools get the FDA nod and rosy clinical study results | The news: On Friday, two important developments related to AI-powered cancer diagnostics surfaced:
1. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s spinout, Paige, got FDA clearance for its AI-powered clinical decision support tool to detect prostate cancer.
... |
| 20.09.2021 | Hinge Health consolidates into a digital musculoskeletal care giant | The news: Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care startup Hinge Health acquired Wrnch—which provides advanced computer vision tech for tracking human motion. The new tech will allow Hinge to implement even more precise tracking of movement for i... |
| 01.06.2021 | Relatient Appoints David Klasnick as Chief Operating Officer | “We are honored to welcome David aboard the executive team as we continue to build Relatient’s leadership foundation,” said Relatient CEO, Michele Perry.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (PRWEB) June 01, 2021
Relatient, Inc., leading SaaS-based, patient en... |
| 16.04.2021 | Here's why digital therapy startups should explore D2C models | Digital therapeutics (DTx) company Omada Health launched a new musculoskeletal (MSK) tool that uses computer vision tech to help physical therapists virtually measure a patient’s movement and range of motion, which is typically done in-pers... |
| 29.03.2021 | Conservatives Have Healthcare Ideas, Too | The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Photographer: ... [+] Samuel Corum/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| 18.03.2021 | What a potential sale of IBM’s Watson Health means for AI in healthcare | Image: Mackenzie Burke
Success with artificial intelligence in healthcare depends on what you want the technology to do. A recent survey about AI in healthcare found that hospitals and insurance companies rate improving the payment process ... |
| 17.03.2021 | Responsible AI in health care starts at the top — but it’s everyone’s responsibility (VB Live) | Presented by Optum
Health care’s Quadruple Aim is to improve health outcomes, enhance the experiences of patients and providers, and reduce costs — and AI can help. In this VB Live event, learn more about how stakeholders can use AI respons... |
| 09.03.2021 | NVIDIA Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite to Help Every Industry Unlock the Power of AI | Runs on VMware vSphere; Optimized, Certified and Supported by NVIDIA; Hundreds of Thousands of Customers in World’s Largest Industries Can Now Adopt NVIDIA AI Enterprise at Scale
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDI... |
| 05.03.2021 | With 30 deals in just two months, healthcare M&A isn't slowing down | Optum bought Change Healthcare; Cigna's Evernorth purchased MDLIVE; Centene acquired Magellan Health
For all the problems that COVID caused, and there were many, 2020 turned out to be a good year for those in the innovation side of healthca... |
| 26.02.2021 | Octave Bioscience to Present New Analyses Addressing the Complex Unmet Needs of Multiple Sclerosis Through Quantitative and Image-Based Measurement of Multiple Pathways and Their Biomarkers at the ACT... | MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2021--
Octave Bioscience (Octave), the developer of a fully integrated care management platform for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the presentation ... |
| 01.02.2021 | How the responsible use of AI can help create a better health system | Presented by Optum
Artificial intelligence (AI) used responsibly has the opportunity to live up to its promise of helping achieve what we in health care call the Quadruple Aim: better health outcomes, better patient experiences, and better ... |
| 20.01.2021 | Telehealth, online pharmacy key focus for UnitedHealth, leaders say | But McMahon expects the demand for telehealth services to continue.
Certain services, like ambulatory or outpatient behavioral healthcare, lend themselves to delivery via telehealth, Dr. Wyatt Decker, CEO of OptumHealth, added during the ca... |
| 06.01.2021 | UnitedHealth Group Acquires Change Healthcare to Combine with OptumInsight for $13B | What You Should Know:
– UnitedHealth Group has reached an agreement to acquire Change Healthcare in a deal valued at more than $13 billion, marking the first major acquisition of 2021.
– Change Healthcare will be combined with OptumInsight ... |
| 06.11.2020 | Healthcare execs going all-in on AI, survey shows | Not only do a majority of healthcare organizations currently have an artificial intelligence strategy in place, more than half (59%) believe AI will deliver tangible cost savings within three years, according to a new survey from healthcare... |
| 09.10.2020 | Optum Focuses On AI To Improve Administrative Decisions | The Optum Experience Center in Eden Prairie, MNOptum |
| 27.02.2020 | Physician practice consolidation: It’s only just begun | Disruption has redefined health care in the past decade. For private practice physicians, the biggest disruptor has been consolidation.
The trend of local hospitals merging into massive health systems has significantly affected private prac... |
| 20.12.2019 | The pursuit of a 10X better value-based care enablement solution and the rise of primary care physician management platforms | |
| 28.10.2019 | John Sculley’s RxAdvance is tackling the $935 billion in wasted healthcare spending | Thirteen years ago John Sculley needed a new challenge. His friend Bob Metcalfe said he needed to reinvent himself.
“So I picked something I knew nothing about: healthcare,” Sculley said.
What Sculley knows about is digital transformation. ... |
| 21.10.2019 | Microsoft + Humana partnership uses the cloud to make patient records actionable | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190524_Ross_Alison.mp4
Humana and Microsoft want to use Azure to convert electronic medical records from “doctors only” into something a patient could use.
Humana will use A... |
| 17.09.2019 | Kaia Health lands $8M to focus on treating musculoskeletal disorders | |
| 29.05.2019 | Talkspace Nabs $50M to Expand Telebehavioral Health Platform | Talkspace, a telebehavioral health company providing online therapy has raised $50M in funding led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital, Spark Capital and Compound Ventures, amongst others, will a... |
| 06.11.2018 | What big health insurers are doing with big data | Insurance companies like Kaiser, Aetna, Anthem and UnitedHealth have been making big data pays
When Vator and HP held the SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health salon at the end of September, one of the things that came up repeatedly was ... |
| 23.03.2018 | Optum and HealthBI Team Up on Value-based Care Partnership | Optum, the health business services arm of UnitedHealth Group, and HealthBI announce a partnership aimed at creating an industry-changing operation model for providers to practice and improve value-based care. The venture is initially aimed... |
| 29.11.2017 | Optum Launches $250M Venture Capital Fund to Invest in Health Care Innovation | Optum, the health services business of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), has launched a $250m venture capital fund.
Optum Ventures focuses on investing in startup and early-stage companies whose innovations will help advance the health care s... |
| 29.08.2017 | Vista Equity to Acquire Advisory Board’s Education Business for $1.55B | The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a distinctive provider of research, technology and consulting to health care organizations and education institutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to sell... |
| 31.07.2017 | Even With High Costs & Uncertainty, Gene Therapy Finds Funding And Warm IPO Waters | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is the first entry of the Homo Posterius (“the Next Human”) column on investments in future-setting technologies. This week, we will dive into gene therapy startups and the money that goes into ... |
| 10.08.2016 | CareSkore gets $4.3M to bring machine learning to preventive care | Among other things, CareSkore wants to use machine learning to anticipate mortality. However, the newly endowed platform is more than just a Facebook poll that tells you how you’ll meet your end this Christmas by being squashed by a falling... |
| 03.05.2016 | Introducing ‘Better Living’ in Collaboration With Doctorola | Today we are excited to announce an entirely new section called ‘Better Living’-a health and wellness blog for entrepreneurs and makers from Future Startup. The initiative, supported by Doctorola, a healthcare startup based in Dhaka, aims t... |
| 15.01.2015 | Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence | Both Target, which made headlines recently with its collaboration with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, and Walmart will be exploring technological tools to enhance efforts, which could range from partnerships and acquisitions on t... |
| 19.02.2014 | Audax Health’s 24-year-old CEO sells majority stake to UnitedHealth | At 24, Grant Verstandig is one of the youngest chief executives in the health-tech sector. And he’s only one of the few to achieve a successful exit.
Today, Optum, a group within health-insurance giant UnitedHealth, acquired a majority stak... |
| 31.01.2014 | Educated guesstimates about the Audax Health price tag start at $100M and rise to $400M+ | Setting aside the company’s web-based platform, Audax’s high-powered board probably didn’t hurt in getting the company to this point either. Its chairman is Richard Klaussner, who helped set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s glob... |
| 14.08.2013 | Optum’s effectiveness mash-up: Combining United’s 40M claims + 7M hospital records to test devices | SharedClarity has created an alliance of long-time healthcare frenemies (payers and providers) to test effectiveness of heart and orthopedic medical devices with the aim of lowering costs, reducing readmissions, allowing members to negotiat... |
| 20.09.2012 | The great healthcare chasm: Patients want to email, access EMRs, but physicians still can’t | Consumers’ desires for online communication and access of health records is not limited to the young. The survey found that 57 percent of the seniors who participated in the survey said that they want to go online to interact with care prov... |
| - | Real-world data: The key to a deeper, more precise understanding of cancer progression and treatment | Historically, the oncology data available to researchers has either been too narrow (focusing on cancer alone), too shallow (composed of just one type of data, such as claims data), or some combination of the two. This is problematic for se... |
| - | Healthcare execs want to implement diagnostic AI—but providers still largely distrust it | The data: Nearly 72% of healthcare execs say they’d trust AI to support nonclinical, admin processes that take away time providers could be spending with patients, according to Optum’s fourth annual healthcare AI survey of 500 senior health... |
| - | Q1 2021 Health IT/Digital Health PC/VE, M&A, IPOs/ SPACs Activity | The first quarter of 2021 has been one of investor optimism as the vaccine rollout continues ahead of expectations and economic activity begins to accelerate in response. Within the Health IT industry, the already strong investment and M&am... |
| - | Outages from Change Healthcare cyberattack causing financial ‘mess’ for doctors | Providers are facing growing financial pressures as crucial reimbursement systems remain down following the cyberattack on Change Healthcare.
Smaller and mid-sized practices that rely on reimbursement cash flow to operate are making tough d... |
| - | Meet the 30 young leaders forging a new future for the healthcare industry in 2022 | Courtesy of CG Oncology; Chris Conroy Photography; Mahmee; Alyssa Powell/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A generation of leaders is changing the healthcare industr... |
| - | Clinical natural language processing: Unearthing oncology insights by mining unstructured medical notes | In a recent article in this space, OPTUM discussed how real-world data (RWD) can be used to provide a deeper, more precise understanding of cancer progression and treatment. Now, the company takes a look at a dynamic new field of research t... |
| - | AI cancer diagnostic tools get the FDA nod and rosy clinical study results | The news: On Friday, two important developments related to AI-powered cancer diagnostics surfaced:
1. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s spinout, Paige, got FDA clearance for its AI-powered clinical decision support tool to detect prostate cancer.
... |
| - | Hinge Health consolidates into a digital musculoskeletal care giant | The news: Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care startup Hinge Health acquired Wrnch—which provides advanced computer vision tech for tracking human motion. The new tech will allow Hinge to implement even more precise tracking of movement for i... |
| - | OptumInsight CEO: Hospitals can now handle the truth of clinical + claims data analysis | The HIMSS conference halls in Orlando were buzzing with the words population health analytics, something that makes OptumInsight CEO Bill Miller smile. It’s not just because the UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company was debuting its own po... |
| - | Cyberattack on UnitedHealth firm forces doctors to dig into personal savings to stay afloat | Health providers have been struggling with fallout from the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
Much of the company’s technology helps facilitate billing, payments, benefits evaluations, and information exchanges behind the scenes.
One doctor sa... |
| - | Healthcare execs going all-in on AI, survey shows | Not only do a majority of healthcare organizations currently have an artificial intelligence strategy in place, more than half (59%) believe AI will deliver tangible cost savings within three years, according to a new survey from healthcare... |
| - | UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare down for a fourth day following cyberattack | Change Healthcare’s systems are down for the fourth day in a row after parent company UnitedHealth Group disclosed a suspected cyberattack on Wednesday.
UnitedHealth said it identified a “suspected nation-state-associated” actor behind the ... |
| - | Telehealth, online pharmacy key focus for UnitedHealth, leaders say | Ushering in the new year, UnitedHealth Group has expanded its telehealth offerings amid a steady demand for virtual care services. Further, its leaders see online pharmacy services as a driver of growth in the year ahead, according to the t... |
| - | The great healthcare chasm: Patients want to email, access EMRs, but physicians still can’t | When it comes to consumer use of health IT, demand seems to be outstripping supply and it’s creating the great healthcare chasm.
Results of a new survey show that while three out of four patients are eager to access health records online th... |
| - | Mapping tumor biomarkers | By Xiaoren Chen, PhD, Medical NLP Informaticist, Optum
The complexity of cancer biology makes the disease an extremely formidable foe for anyone who takes it on, from bio researchers and drug developers, to payers and providers. Traditional... |
| - | The CMS fines health systems $1M+ for breaking price transparency rules—will they finally comply? | The news: Nearly 40% of healthcare execs agree price transparency is the healthcare industry’s greatest challenge this year, according to Optum’s new report surveying 150 health plan, provider, and employer clients.
Zooming out on the trend... |
| - | Optum’s effectiveness mash-up: Combining United’s 40M claims + 7M hospital records to test devices | SharedClarity has created an alliance of long-time healthcare frenemies (payers and providers) to test effectiveness of heart and orthopedic medical devices with the aim of lowering costs, reducing readmissions, allowing members to negotiat... |
| - | Life sciences research: At the tipping point of change | Until now, developing health care insights and understanding a product’s real-world value proposition have been developed primarily from claims data. Research scientists have also anchored much of their insight-generation on the slices of i... |
| - | The 7 trends shaping life sciences strategies in 2023 | New federal guidelines for real-world evidence, an expanding market for biosimilars and continuing site of care shifts represent just some of the major market forces influencing the life sciences landscape this year, according to a recent a... |
| - | Northwell Health turns to AI to improve revenue cycle management | The news: Northwell Health signed a 10-year partnership with clinical AI solutions company Clinithink to use its AI-powered natural language processing (NLP) solution (CLiX revenue) to improve revenue cycle management (RCM).
For context, No... |
| - | Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence | Retail giants Walmart and Target, and likely others, will continue their steady march into the healthcare setting, sensing an opportunity to leverage their customers with a mix of technology that could be a boon to the digital health space.... |
| - | Sword Health vaults to $2B valuation as virtual physical therapy becomes need-to-have in employer-sponsored insurance | The news: Digital musculoskeletal startup Sword Health scored $163 million in a Series D funding Round—vaulting its valuation to nearly $2 billion.
More on Sword Health: Sword Health provides virtual physical therapy programs that help peop... |
