OneTouchPoint, a vendor that offers printing and mailing services to insurers and providers, experienced a data breach in April that exposed patient information from 38 healthcare organizations, the company disclosed Wednesday. Humana, Kaiser Permanente, CareSource, Geisinger, HealthPartners and a few Blue Cross Blue Shield companies are among those the breach affected, OneTouchPoint said in a news release. OneTouchPoint discovered the […]
Architecture, engineering, and design firm Gresham Smith (Nashville, Tenn.) has hired Doug Spies as senior vice president and advisory services program director in the firm’s healthcare market. Spies, who has 25 years of experience, will lead the firm’s team in providing strategic planning services for health systems. He joins Gresham Smith from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh) where […]
Deloris Witcher, caregiver (PCA) for Care Advantage, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into action for […]
With the Omicron wave of COVID-19 sweeping the country, we previously calculated the number of people who were not up to date with vaccination in vulnerable areas as of June 2, 2022. Specifically, we looked at counties classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has having “medium” or “high” COVID-19 community levels, signifying not only that new […]
Blood tests for the presence of “forever chemicals” should be available to patients who have a history of likely elevated exposure to these substances, a panel of top environmental health experts declared on Wednesday. Clinicians should offer tests to patients who have been exposed to these cancer-linked compounds by either working or living in contaminated settings, the experts argued in […]
In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin announced an expansive agreement Wednesday that had eluded them for months addressing healthcare and climate, raising taxes on high earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt. The two Democrats said the Senate would vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up President Joe Biden and […]
Zhejiang University School of Medicine’s new First Affiliated Hospital Yuhang & Medical Research Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, opened in November 2020 in a fast-growing section of town where a growing number of high-tech firms have located. “There were no hospitals in this part of town,” says Sangmin Lee, China health regional director at HDR (San Francisco), which worked with […]
Molina Healthcare said Thursday it plans to make remote work permanent and it will trim its real estate footprint by two-thirds, which executives said will yield substantial savings. Molina, a Fortune 500 company and among the nation’s largest insurers, is the latest company to decide to go fully remote as the COVID-19 pandemic forced offices to shutter, sending employees to […]
The outsized impact of type 2 diabetes on the health system in the United States is well established – millions of Americans experience declining health and higher healthcare costs each year because of this epidemic and chronic condition. According to the CDC, diabetes costs $327 billion each year and the total cost rose 60% from 2007 to 2017. Most of […]
So in terms of next steps, Maya, when it comes to rolling out this rural emergency hospital model, what does that look like? How do you think it will be received? I imagine rural hospitals have to start preparing now to convert, you know, which comes with an additional expense and time and so on so forth. Maya Goldman:Well, the […]