What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and General Catalyst, a global venture capital firm, today announced the sale of HCA Healthcare’s PatientKeeper to venture firm General Catalyst’s portfolio company Commure along with an investment in Commure and the formation of a new strategic collaboration to accelerate digital transformation.
- PatientKeeper is a leading provider of intuitive software and mobile applications that help physicians
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Stronger Together: A Remedy to Third-Party Cyber Risk in Healthcare
Controlling healthcare costs while delivering faster and better patient care is predicated upon the secure digitization and distribution of health information, from clinicians to medical devices to EMR and EHR systems, and more. The healthcare blueprint looks and operates much differently from what’s built for other industries, with vendors and other third parties supplying most of the components that make up today’s healthcare provider infrastructure. It’s increasing the attack surface area,
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Femtech: Babyscripts Partners with Privia Health for Remote Pregnancy Care
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- Privia Health, a national physician enablement company that collaborates with medical groups, health plans and health systems, has teamed up with Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, to provide the Babyscripts platform to their providers, enabling physicians with Privia Women’s Health to deliver cutting-edge remote care to their pregnant and postpartum patients across the nation.
- Pregnant patients who receive care from the more
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Unite Us Acquires Health Analytics Platform Carrot Health
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, a New York City-based company connecting health and social care services, today announced the acquisition of Carrot Health, an action-oriented health analytics company focused on removing barriers to health and optimizing care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The combination of predictive analytics powerhouse Carrot Health and Unite Us’ end-to-end social determinants of health products will further deepen
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What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings
In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. During this time, healthcare staff naturally prioritized the health and safety of their patients, but this led to a marked decline of cybersecurity measures, leaving themselves open to attacks.
Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the
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Ultromics Raises $33M for AI-Enabled Echocardiograms to Help Clinicians Diagnose Heart Disease
What You Should Know:
- Today, Ultromics, an Oxford, England-based health-tech startup announced it has raised $33M in Series B funding led by Blue Ventures, the investing arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield, and also includes investment from Optum Ventures, GV, and Oxford Sciences.
- Born at the University of Oxford and built-in partnership with the U.K.’s NHS, Ultromics has developed the first fully automated solution for echocardiography and analysis of global longitudinal strain (GLS).
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Cigna & Fresenius Extend VBC Program to Help More People with Kidney Failure
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- Today, Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) and Cigna announced an expansion of their value-based care(VBC) program to improve health outcomes and lower the cost of care for those living with kidney failure, or end stage renal disease (ESRD), through at least 2023.
- First launched in 2017 as part of Cigna Collaborative Care, the VBC program will now include additional incentives to support more kidney disease specialists
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3 Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Work to Prevent Insider Security Threats
Though it’s often “highly sophisticated” or “nation-state” attackers that make headlines, the truth is that healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity threats are within the IT ecosystem. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, nearly 40 percent of all global security incidents in 2020 were caused by inside actors. These insider threats are often not malicious in nature, but accidental errors, such as employees clicking on phishing links, using weak passwords, or
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Ciitizen Launches Solution to Help HIEs Comply with Info Blocking Regulation
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- Ciitizen, a Palo Alto, CA-based consumer healthcare technology company helping patients get full control of their medical records to access more personalized treatment options, today announced the launch of Cures Gateway, a platform for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) to effortlessly comply with patient-initiated requests for medical records.
- The Ciitizen Cures Gateway will enable records to be delivered to a personal health app selected by the patient. It is
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Ransomware in Healthcare: The Costly Reality of Withstanding Hackers
How much larger a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) can healthcare command?
This isn’t a rhetorical question, even if it may be difficult to come up with a direct answer. After all, between 1960 and 2018, healthcare increased as a percentage of GDP from a modest 5 percent to more than triple that at almost 18 percent. Over that time period, healthcare economists noticed the rise in healthcare costs and regularly rang the alarm bells with increasing levels of concern.
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