Ascension inadvertently disclosed information to a former business partner. Some of that information was determined to have been "likely stolen" due to a "vulnerability in third-party software" used by the former partner. Data involved in the breach included demographic information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, race, gender and social security numbers.
Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
In 100 days, President Trump and his administration have not only upended the status quo for healthcare and challenged mainstream science, but slashed the workforce that's supposed to execute on their vision.
AI can process diverse data sources—ranging from medical images to genetic information to patient voice recordings—to help doctors make more informed decisions. While processing this data individually can deliver important insights, combining them can create a clearer, more complete picture of a patient's health.
Sutter Health agreed this week to pay $228.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the Sacramento-based hospital system of anticompetitive practices. The case, originally filed in 2012, accused Sutter of attempting to amass monopoly power in northern California through all-or-nothing contracts, requiring insurers to include all of its hospitals and physician groups in health plans.
Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based patient records.