Actions ranging from data theft to ransomware cost the healthcare industry over $9.2 million on average for every breach, according to data from IBM. Healthcare startups and healthcare organizations that use protected health information have to presume they are potential targets for cybersecurity attacks and data breaches and plan accordingly. Health IT vendor Ventech Solutions has published a white paper […]
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. The transcript for this segment is being processed. We’re working to post it four to five days after the episode airs. Episode 11: “Climate Displacement, Cultural Resilience” Lanor Curole is a member of the United Houma Nation. She grew up in Golden Meadow, a small bayou town in Southern Louisiana. The […]
The home-based care provider Resilient Healthcare has partnered with the Dallas-based White Rock Medical Center (WRMC) on transitional care and hospital-at-home programs. Resilient – which has high-acuity patient population focus – pitched its capabilities originally to Pipeline Health, WRMC’s parent company. Pipeline owns six additional hospital systems in the U.S., meaning this could be the start of something much bigger […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has vetoed a bill that would’ve allowed for a safe-injection site pilot program in the state, citing a lack of leadership in its implementation. In a memo issued on Monday, Newsom wrote that he is concerned about Senate Bill 57, and the operations of the safe injection sites without engaged local leadership and a “well-documented, […]
The monkeypox virus has reached all 50 states. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, Wyoming reported a single case of the virus on Monday, becoming the final state in the country to do so. In a news release, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said the lone virus case is from a male resident in Laramie […]
Clover Health Investments CEO Vivek Garipalli was the highest paid CEO at publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies in 2021, a Friday report by S&P Global Market Intelligence found. Meanwhile, former Centene CEO Michael Neidorff was the only one who experienced a decrease in compensation year over year although unlike Clover Health, Centene’s stock actually increased in the previous 12 […]
Just one month after its purchase of One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM) for $3.9 million, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) reportedly has its eye on another health care entity. This time around its Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), a value-based care platform with home-based care capabilities. Signify is potentially for sale in an auction that could value it at over $8 billion, according to […]
Patients put their trust in hospitals and doctors to care for them, and that trust should also extend to how their provider is billing them for their care. That can only happen when the patient is privy to how they are being charged. There are a plethora of items and services that can run up a patient’s bill, but only […]
This time last year, a gaggle of buzzy health insurance startups justified big investments as key to their aggressive growth plans. Now, these same companies are pulling back and instead pursing a novel business strategy: earning profits. “This was the first quarter where they talked about a little more rational approach,” said Gary Taylor, managing director and senior equity research […]
Roughly half of men who have sex with men have reported reducing their number of sexual partners and encounters in response to the monkeypox outbreak, according to a survey released on Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Forty-eight percent of the poll’s participants said they reduced their number of sexual partners, 50 percent reduced their number […]