News 6/7/24 – HIStalk
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Endpoints News reports that Walmart lost $230 million last year alone on its Walmart Health clinics before announcing their closure a few weeks ago. The business was launched in April 2019.
The company…
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Endpoints News reports that Walmart lost $230 million last year alone on its Walmart Health clinics before announcing their closure a few weeks ago. The business was launched in April 2019.
The company…
ONC is seeking feedback on a recent white paper that highlights its vision for Health Equity by Design. The organization is formulating strategies to reduce healthcare disparities by including health equity throughout the…
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Researchers at George Mason University’s public health school create MeAgainMeds.com, a free AI-powered website that uses self-reported patient history and data that was extracted from 3.6 million patient records to help patients and clinicians…
Continue ReadingJeff Richards, MS, MBA is co-founder and chief development and operation officer of SnapCare.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
I spent the first 19 years of my career as a clinician…
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Ascension says in a June 4 cyberattack update that it has restored EHR access in its Florida, Alabama, and Austin markets. It hopes to use that experience to make the EHR available to…
Continue ReadingI use HIStalk as a primary source for healthcare IT news as much as the next person, so I was interested to see the recent Morning Headlines call-out about Google’s AI Overviews. I had…
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HHS OCR updates its cybersecurity FAQ to include the Change Healthcare cyberattack:
Nobody has issued the breach notification that was due April 21, 60 days from when the incident occurred.
Covered entities should contact…
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Waystar targets a valuation of nearly $4 billion in its upcoming IPO.
The company, which was formed in early 2018 by the merger of Navicure and ZirMed, was valued at $2.7 billion in…
I was talking to a colleague this week. We had a stroll down memory lane about the changes that have happened in the healthcare technology sphere during our tenures in the industry. I…
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Microsoft announces new features for Copilot that include expanded Teams capabilities, the ability to create custom copilots that act as agents, and extensions and connectors for developers.
OpenAI says in an unrelated blog post that…