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Opinion: Hospitals can fight cybercriminals by prioritizing security of billing data, not medical records

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For years, regulators and providers have assumed that medical records — diagnoses, lab results, treatment histories — are the crown jewels hackers are after. Health care cybersecurity policy rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what cybercriminals actually want.

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STAT+: Truveta enlists health systems, drugmakers to launch ambitious new genomic database

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The genetic data, cross-referenced with the patients’ de-identified medical records, will be available for purchase for researchers and life sciences companies. Pharmaceutical company Regeneron has invested $119.5

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STAT+: Abridge raises $300 million, pushing health AI deal-making to new heights

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AI scribes, which turn audio from clinical visits into notes for medical records, was made possible by the widespread availability of large language model technology and has seen rapid adoption as health systems race to address clinician burnout. The company boasts over 150 customers.

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STAT+: UnitedHealth was top insurer collecting billions in questionable Medicare payments, federal watchdog finds

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billion in payments last year from so-called health risk assessments (HRAs) and related reviews of medical records performed in 2022.     A report released Thursday by the Office of Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department concluded that insurers collectively received an estimated $7.5

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STAT+: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

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“I can remember that needle in the haystack feeling,” said Bart, now chief medical information officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, “when you found that one thing in the medical record that helps us figure this out.”

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Opinion: Bloated patient records are filled with false information, thanks to copy-paste

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I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. Read the rest…

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STAT+: Why U.S. health care cybersecurity laws are better at protecting a corpse’s privacy than patients’ lives

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’” But it would be 24 more days from where the plan ended until the Vermont health system was able to bring its electronic medical record system back online. And more than 200 days later, they’d still be dealing with the backlog of paper records.