The Unprecedented Rise in Medicaid’s Diabetes Drug Spending
Introduction to the Crisis
Medicaid faces a staggering projection of $29.9 billion in expenditure for type 2 diabetes and weight loss medications, according to a recent report from…
MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health landscape to look into their crystal balls and closely examine how digital health investments will materialize in 2025.The exec highlighted how AI and data, return on…
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Whether it’s a “reusable NLP pipeline for clinical narratives preprocessing and characterization,” an exploration focused on “evaluating Generative AI for polio containment” – or any number of other healthcare-focused applications large and small –…
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The US Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard that tracks patient and workforce harm. The goal is to monitor patient safety indicators so that improvement can result….
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HHS OCR fines Children’s Hospital Colorado $548,000 for HIPAA breaches involving phishing and cyberattacks.
In the first incident from 2020, an IT help desk technician disabled two-factor authentication for a physician’s account and…
Some members of Congress are asking the U.S. Health and Human Services to back away from a years-long effort to establish government-administered artificial intelligence assurance labs and create an AI assurance lab model in…
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Similar to its findings last year, the Office of Inspector General said Tuesday that the U.S. Health and Human Services continued to have difficulty in identifying, detecting, responding to and recovering from threats to…
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HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.
OIG made six recommendations to HHS:
Update its inventory of enterprise architecture…
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Introduction
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued an urgent warning to the healthcare sector about the Godzilla web shell backdoor, a sophisticated cyberthreat tool believed to be used by Chinese state…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications. The agencies…
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