Research reveals that the total number of data breaches in healthcare has doubled over the last three years. If that doesn’t prompt you to reexamine your organization’s security posture, the financial toll of these incidents might be: The average cost of a healthcare data breach is now $11M.
Despite these alarming trends, most data breaches can still be prevented by implementing the foundational principles of strong cybersecurity. Here are six measures healthcare organizations can take to
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Cornerstone AI Raises $5M to Solve Healthcare’s Data Problem
- Cornerstone AI, a new company solving healthcare’s data challenges to improve research and care, publicly launched its first-of-its-kind AI platform.
- The company also announced a $5M seed round led by Healthy Ventures. The funding marked the first investment for Initiate’s affiliated fund, Initiate Ventures. Healthy Ventures General Partner Anya Schiess and Initiate’s Rowan Chapman and lana Dimkova have joined Cornerstone’s board of directors. Funds will be used to further product
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Verisk Launches EHR Triage Engine to Help Speed Approval of Life Insurance Apps
What You Should Know:
- Verisk launches its new EHR Triage Engine, a tool that
uses data from consumer-authorized electronic health records (EHRs) to help
life insurers fast-track many applications for coverage.
- The EHR Triage Engine bypasses manual workflows,
leveraging advanced predictive analytics and automation to digitally ingest and
analyze EHRs and the tool can evaluate 95,000 impairments in five minutes or
less.
Verisk, a data
analytics provider, announced today the launch
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Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data
- Deloitte is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its new cloud-based service AWS Data Exchange to help organizations quickly and easily find, access and share data from other institutions securely.- Deloitte and AWS Data Exchange together will help organizations and researchers uncover the value created from the vast amounts of data generated throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Most of this data has been inaccessible – and if it is accessible, it’s difficult to find and obtain. -
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Optum Acquires Remote Patient Monitoring Company Vivify Health
- UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division has acquired remote patient monitoring company Vivify Health. - Vivify Health delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic, and ecosystem-connected remote care management platform. - Terms of the deal were not disclosed and both companies decline to comment on the acquisition.UnitedHealthGroup’s Optum division has acquired Vivify Health, a Plano, TX-based remote patient monitoring platform, CNBC first reports. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is an increasingly
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Cerner Designates ResMed’s Home Health & Hospital Platform As Its Preferred Solution
- Cerner forms a collaboration with ResMed to designate ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution.- Cerner also plans to connect other ResMed digital health data platforms—including those that support 10 million-plus cloud-connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices—to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform.Cerner and ResMed, a world-leading digital health company, today announced a new collaboration agreement to help providers make more
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Cerner Names Amazon Web Services (AWS) As Preferred Cloud Provider
Cerner names Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to power enhanced clinical experiences, etc.Cerner Corporation (CERN) today announced a multi-faceted, strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, to accelerate healthcare innovation across the globe including naming AWS its preferred cloud provider. This expanded relationship is expected to power enhanced clinical experiences, increase efficiencies by lowering operational burdens for
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Redox Launches FHIR API for Health Data Exchange on Redox Network
Health integration platform Redox, today announced that they will now offer developers and healthcare organizations the option to use FHIR®, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, for health data exchange over the Redox Network: R^FHIR. R^FHIR expands the capabilities of the Redox Platform by offering developers the choice to interact with a singular FHIR® implementation while still benefiting from the standardization and normalization provided to the network of organizations using Redox
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Survey: Majority of Americans Have No Clue Where Their Medical Data is Stored
Majority of Americans have no knowledge as to where their medical data is stored and who has access to it, according to a new survey conducted by Australian start-up ScalaMed, a blockchain based mobile prescription system. The recent research of 800 patients reveals a number of key issues Americans face when it comes to managing their prescribed medication, while also highlighting how consumers know about where their medical records are stored and who has access to their health data.In fact,
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Infographic: The Rise of Medical Data Sharing & Privacy Concerns
With the push for achieving health IT interoperability, healthcare organizations are increasing sharing more medical data; however, privacy concerns still exists. The following infographic created by Privacy Analytics, a providers of risk-based de-identification & anonymization solutions compliant with HIPAA and other global regulations illustrates the current trends and concerns associated with sharing medical data for secondary uses.
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