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Healthcare
fromSecuritymagazine
16 hours ago

Healthcare Executives Face a New Era of Personal Risk

Healthcare executives face heightened personal risks due to grievance-motivated cyber threats amid economic pressures and public accountability.
Healthcare
fromBoston.com
3 hours ago

Signature Healthcare in Brockton hit by cybersecurity incident

Signature Healthcare is managing a cybersecurity incident, affecting some services while maintaining inpatient and emergency care.
Healthcare
fromSecurityWeek
1 week ago

Healthcare IT Platform CareCloud Probing Potential Data Breach

CareCloud experienced a cybersecurity incident that may have compromised patient information, but the impact is believed to be limited and manageable.
Marketing tech
fromwww.businessinsider.com
17 hours ago

Medvi, the AI-powered telehealth company, is fueled by ads from doctors who don't appear to exist

Medvi, an AI telehealth startup, generated $401 million in revenue last year and is projected to reach $1.8 billion this year, leveraging affiliate marketing.
SF real estate
fromEarth911
1 day ago

How Climate Disasters Are Breaking the Homeowners Insurance Market

Homeowners in high-risk areas face significant insurance premium increases due to climate risk, impacting affordability and availability of home insurance.
Medicine
fromFast Company
4 days ago

The $80,000 clue hiding in plain sight in U.S. healthcare

Genomic sequencing can identify genetic causes of neurological conditions but is often underutilized early in patient care.
#data-breach
Privacy professionals
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked | TechCrunch

Hims & Hers confirmed a data breach affecting customer support data, including names and contact information, but not medical records.
Healthcare
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Health data giant CareCloud says hackers accessed patients' medical records | TechCrunch

CareCloud experienced a data breach where hackers accessed patient electronic health records for over eight hours, but data exfiltration status remains unclear.
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Investigation into data breach involving Blue Cross Blue Shield members could head to court - DataBreaches.Net

Privacy professionals
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked | TechCrunch

Hims & Hers confirmed a data breach affecting customer support data, including names and contact information, but not medical records.
Healthcare
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Health data giant CareCloud says hackers accessed patients' medical records | TechCrunch

CareCloud experienced a data breach where hackers accessed patient electronic health records for over eight hours, but data exfiltration status remains unclear.
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Investigation into data breach involving Blue Cross Blue Shield members could head to court - DataBreaches.Net

#medicare
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
3 days ago

Why 131 Hospitals Are Suing HHS Over Alleged Underpayment - MedCity News

131 hospitals are suing HHS over CMS payment reductions for facilities treating low-income Medicare patients.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
3 days ago

Why 131 Hospitals Are Suing HHS Over Alleged Underpayment - MedCity News

131 hospitals are suing HHS over CMS payment reductions for facilities treating low-income Medicare patients.
US news
fromThe Washington Post
2 weeks ago

Company admits it diverted private patient records to law firms

GuardDog Telehealth illegally accessed and sold patient medical records from multiple health systems to law firms without patient consent, representing the first settlement in Epic Systems' lawsuit against companies engaged in this practice.
#ai-in-healthcare
fromFuturism
2 days ago
Healthcare

America's Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

fromFortune
2 months ago
Business

AI is becoming baked into health care. Now CEOs are focusing on patient and practitioner outcomes | Fortune

Healthcare
fromFuturism
2 days ago

America's Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

AI is being considered to replace radiologists in X-ray diagnosis, raising concerns about patient safety and care quality.
fromFortune
2 months ago
Business

AI is becoming baked into health care. Now CEOs are focusing on patient and practitioner outcomes | Fortune

#ai-automation
fromFuturism
4 days ago
Healthcare

Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before

Healthcare
fromFuturism
4 days ago

Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before

AI automation in insurance claims may lead to increased denials of necessary medical care, raising concerns among patients and advocates.
Privacy professionals
fromSecuritymagazine
2 weeks ago

GuardDog Telehealth Accesses Sensitive Medical Records Under False Pretenses

GuardDog Telehealth accessed patient medical records under false treatment pretenses and sold sensitive data to law firms seeking clients with specific injuries.
Healthcare
fromTNW | Health-Tech
6 days ago

Corti's new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

Corti's Symphony for Medical Coding improves clinical coding accuracy by treating it as a reasoning task rather than a labeling problem.
Business intelligence
fromSecuritymagazine
4 weeks ago

AI Security and Forensic Accounting: Protecting Financial Systems in an Automated World

AI-enhanced forensic accounting is essential for detecting financial fraud and payment manipulation in automated financial systems vulnerable to sophisticated, AI-driven attacks.
Healthcare
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Why Raymond James Says Wall Street Is Underestimating UnitedHealth's Earnings Power

Raymond James upgraded UnitedHealth Group to Outperform, citing potential earnings upside and margin improvement at Optum Health.
#ai-healthcare
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

Microsoft launches Copilot Health to store healthcare data and provide personalized wellness insights through AI, while explicitly disclaiming it is not medical advice and cannot diagnose or treat conditions.
fromFast Company
2 months ago
Healthcare

Amazon's newest AI doesn't just chat - it knows your health history

Amazon's One Medical app introduces a Health AI chatbot that uses patients' medical records to provide personalized medical advice, explain results, and assist with appointments.
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

Microsoft launches Copilot Health to store healthcare data and provide personalized wellness insights through AI, while explicitly disclaiming it is not medical advice and cannot diagnose or treat conditions.
fromFortune
1 month ago

$15 billion of the insurance industry is at risk from AI, BofA says | Fortune

Our view is that large-language model digital agents can effectively do a non-immaterial portion of the work currently provided by 20-30k independent agents across the United States. The core of the firm's bearish thesis centers on a massive pool of routine, low-complexity insurance policies.
Artificial intelligence
Healthcare
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

I used AI to dispute a $1,200 dental bill. I don't see the glory in wasting my energy on tedious life tasks.

Unexpected dental bills can arise from changing providers, especially if insurance coverage is not verified beforehand.
#no-surprises-act
fromMedCity News
2 months ago
Public health

Is It Time to Change the Independent Dispute Resolution Process of the No Surprises Act? - MedCity News

Healthcare
fromMedCity News
1 week ago

'This is Crazy': Health Experts Call for Changes to the No Surprises Act - MedCity News

The No Surprises Act is facing challenges due to the misuse of the Independent Dispute Resolution process by providers, leading to unsustainable reimbursement levels.
fromMedCity News
2 months ago
Public health

Is It Time to Change the Independent Dispute Resolution Process of the No Surprises Act? - MedCity News

Healthcare
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Better technology is an imperative for behavioral health

The behavioral health crisis is deepening, yet progress is evident in treatment rates and workforce growth despite ongoing challenges.
Healthcare
fromNextgov.com
1 week ago

CMS rule looks to kill faxed, mailed claims in favor of e-submissions

CMS finalizes rule to phase out fax and paper mail for healthcare claims, promoting electronic submissions and expected to save $781 million annually.
Healthcare
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Thank God they're still alive': Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care

Changes in patient screening at Kaiser Permanente have led to concerns about delayed care for high-risk mental health patients.
Healthcare
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

CMS seeks to expand tech-driven fight against Medicaid fraud

CMS uses innovative technologies and AI-driven fraud detection to prevent improper payments, saving over $2 billion through its Fraud Defense Operations Center launched in March 2025.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

A Different Way to Rein in Health Care Costs

Medical education's narrow biomedical focus shapes physician values and the medical industrial complex, contributing significantly to the United States' very high health care costs.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
3 weeks ago

Why The Epic-Health Gorilla Case Just Got Juicier - MedCity News

GuardDog Telehealth admitted to falsely representing itself as a healthcare provider to access patient medical records in Epic's lawsuit over alleged patient data misuse through interoperability networks.
Public health
fromMedium
1 month ago

Things AI Engineers Need to Keep in Mind with HIPAA and Healthcare Compliance

Healthcare AI requires system-level HIPAA compliance: data minimization, defensible de-identification, vendor BAAs, auditability, and proactive breach planning.
Data science
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

Swap model by creating a new chat solver, clone or create tasks with alternative LLMs, run evaluations, and bind results for comparison and analysis.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why insurers' increased use of AI is sparking concerns for policyholders

“fireball burning everything in its path”
Real estate
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

VA's latest AI inventory includes new suicide, EHR-focused use cases

The Department of Veterans Affairs expanded its documented AI initiatives to 367 use cases in 2025 while maintaining about 138 active deployments.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Suing Therapeutic AI Systems for Malpractice

As AI becomes integrated into daily life and personal decision making, it is unsurprising that many people are consulting AI for assistance with depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Mental health chatbots, self-help applications, and large language models can provide immediate responses, emotional validation, and structured coping strategies.
Mental health
Health
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries | TechCrunch

Google removed some AI-generated Search overviews for liver test queries after those overviews provided potentially misleading, non-personalized reference ranges.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Trial launched to 'help spot health risks early'

Public health consultant Dr Ross Keat said supporting people earlier to make small preventative changes would make "a big difference later on". Some 3,500 people in the north of the island within that age bracket are eligible for the checks. The checks will be carried out by two pre-existing nurses that support GP staff and would not replace GP appointments, Keat explained, adding that the cost would be minimal and absorbed by Ramsey Group Practice.
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data

The idea echoes a policy implemented during his first term, when Trump suggested that requiring hospitals to post their charges online could ease one of the most common gripes about the health care system the lack of upfront prices. To anyone who's gotten a bill three months after treatment only to find mysterious charges, the idea seemed intuitive. "You're able to go online and compare all of the hospitals and the doctors and the prices,"
US news
Healthcare
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Microsoft launches Copilot Health, a dedicated space for personal health data and AI-driven insights | Fortune

Microsoft launched Copilot Health, an AI assistant feature that integrates and analyzes health data from wearables, electronic health records, and lab results to provide personalized health insights and provider recommendations.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Connected data will rescue healthcare

AI plays an important role-but not by fixing fragmented data on its own. The work of organizing, connecting, and interpreting healthcare information still belongs to people and the systems they build. Where AI helps is after that foundation is in place: by bringing the right information forward at the right time, reducing the effort it takes to find what matters, and supporting better decisions in the moment of care.
Medicine
Healthcare
fromHarvard Business Review
3 weeks ago

Healthcare Uses Specialized Language. It Needs Specialized AI, Too.

Healthcare professionals across specialties use inconsistent terminology and communication styles, creating significant translation barriers that impede care coordination and data interoperability.
#medical-billing
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Product Spotlight on Analytics

Taelor Sutherland is Associate Editor at Security magazine covering enterprise security, coordinating digital content, and holding a BA in English Literature from Agnes Scott College.
fromMedium
1 month ago

Real-Time Data Validation in Healthcare Streaming: Building Custom Schema Registry Patterns with...

In a single streaming pipeline, you might be processing HL7 FHIR messages with frequent specification updates, claims data following various payer-specific formats, provider directory information with inconsistent taxonomies, and patient demographics with privacy redaction requirements. Our member eligibility stream processes roughly 50,000 records per minute during peak enrollment periods.
Healthcare
Healthcare
fromZDNET
4 weeks ago

The good, bad, and ugly of AI healthcare, according to a doctor who uses AI

People increasingly use AI for health advice despite its unreliability, driven by declining trust in healthcare institutions and the technology's convenience and accessibility.
Public health
fromCbsnews
2 months ago

State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today

Insurance profit motives are reducing access to necessary medical care through unaffordable premiums, high deductibles, and denials of tests and treatments.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

My Dad Got Sick-Doctors Dodged, AI Didn't

My dad was in the emergency room, short of breath, chest tight, upper back aching. He looked pale and confused. An ultrasound showed excess fluid between his lung and chest wall. "We'll drain it," a resident said, as if he were unclogging a sink. For the next five days, thick, red-tinged fluid filled a plastic container beside my dad's hospital bed. Doctors sent his cells for "staining," a way to identify cancer. But no one used that word.
Medicine
#healthcare-cybersecurity
fromWIRED
2 months ago

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims

Kennedy has also called for overhauling the current safety monitoring system for vaccine injury data collection, known as Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, claiming that it suppresses information about the true rate of vaccine side effects. He has also proposed changes to the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that could make it easier for people to sue for adverse events that haven't been proven to be associated with vaccines.
Public health
#healthcare-ai-automation
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago
Healthcare

AWS Launches Amazon Connect Health for AI-Powered Healthcare Administration - TechRepublic

Amazon Connect Health automates healthcare administrative tasks like patient verification, scheduling, and coding to reduce staff time on paperwork and increase patient care focus.
Healthcare
fromAlleywatch
1 month ago

Anterior Raises $40M to Eliminate Administrative Burden Draining Healthcare Resources

Anterior's AI platform automates healthcare administrative workflows, reducing prior authorization cycles by 75% and achieving 182-second approval times while maintaining 99.24% clinical accuracy across 50M covered lives.
Healthcare
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

AWS Launches Amazon Connect Health for AI-Powered Healthcare Administration - TechRepublic

Amazon Connect Health automates healthcare administrative tasks like patient verification, scheduling, and coding to reduce staff time on paperwork and increase patient care focus.
Healthcare
fromAlleywatch
1 month ago

Anterior Raises $40M to Eliminate Administrative Burden Draining Healthcare Resources

Anterior's AI platform automates healthcare administrative workflows, reducing prior authorization cycles by 75% and achieving 182-second approval times while maintaining 99.24% clinical accuracy across 50M covered lives.
Medicine
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Google gave dangerous medical misinformation: advising pancreatic cancer patients to avoid high-fat foods and providing false liver function test information that could harm patients.
Healthcare
fromAxios
1 month ago

The era of Doctor AI is already here

Millions use ChatGPT for health advice daily despite clinical deployment debates, creating a reality where AI is already widely used for direct-to-consumer medical guidance outside formal healthcare systems.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Understanding Breaches Before and After They Happen: What Every Organization Should Know

Most security breaches result from neglected fundamentals—human error, unpatched systems, weak authentication, and poor network segmentation—rather than advanced, novel exploits.
#healthcare-ai
Healthcare
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Amazon bets on health care AI with tools for patients, doctors

Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Connect Health, an AI tool that automates medical documentation, billing codes, patient verification, and appointment scheduling to reduce healthcare administrative burden.
Healthcare
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Amazon bets on health care AI with tools for patients, doctors

Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Connect Health, an AI tool that automates medical documentation, billing codes, patient verification, and appointment scheduling to reduce healthcare administrative burden.
Medicine
fromFortune
2 months ago

As Utah lets AI handle some routine prescription renewals, physicians warn of patient risks | Fortune

Utah authorized an AI to prescribe repeat medications without physician oversight through a year-long pilot to reduce costs and expand access.
fromCbsnews
2 months ago

State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today

It was heartbreaking, and it was awful," she said. "I lived in fear every day.
Public health
Healthcare
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month ago

Electronic health records are still creating issues for patients | Computer Weekly

All NHS trusts in England must implement electronic patient record systems by March 2026, though rollouts have faced integration challenges, staff training issues, and reports of patient harm.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care

Standardized patients role-play diverse illnesses so medical students can practice clinical skills, examinations, counseling, and diagnostics in realistic, unhurried encounters.
Healthcare
fromTheregister
1 month ago

AI doctor's assistant swayed to change scrips - researchers

Healthcare AI systems can be manipulated through prompt injection techniques to bypass safety measures, reveal system instructions, and generate harmful recommendations that persist in patient records.
Public health
fromCbsnews
2 months ago

Patients are being hit with this surprise fee just for seeing their doc. Here's what to know.

Hospital-owned outpatient clinics often add surprise facility fees that increase patients' costs and can deter people from seeking routine care.
Healthcare
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Top 20 Healthcare Data Breaches of 2025

Healthcare data breaches fell 4.3% in 2025, but reporting delays and late additions—compounded by a federal shutdown—may obscure the final breach total.
Healthcare
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Why U.S. healthcare is still the most expensive in the world

U.S. healthcare costs are rising sharply and reform is difficult due to political barriers, competing interests, and behavioral responses from patients, providers, insurers, and manufacturers.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Who can get money from Kaiser Permanente data breach settlement?

Check the inbox of the email account Kaiser has on file for you. On Monday, Jan. 12, emails were sent from Settlement Administrator with the subject line Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement Kaiser Privacy Breach Settlement. Copy the Class Member ID Number that's at the top of the email, then click the link for the settlement website. There you can select the Online Claim Form tab and fill out the required form. The deadline to submit it is March 12.
Healthcare
fromSan Jose Inside
2 months ago

Kaiser Permanente Affiliates Pay $556M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Affiliates of Kaiser Permanente, the healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, have agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to receive higher payments from the government. The civil settlement includes the resolution of certain claims brought in lawsuits under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Ronda Osinek and Dr. James M. Taylor, former employees of Kaiser Permanente.
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