GPT-enabled conversational AI provider Hyro announced it finalized an extension of its Series B funding round. The company told MobiHealthNews that the total Series B funding equates to $35 million, bringing the company’s total…
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What You Should Know:
– After a five-day manhunt, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been apprehended. Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old computer scientist with a history of anti-corporate sentiment,…
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Photo: Courtesy UnitedHealth Group
Walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan this morning, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in what law enforcement officers have called a targeted…
Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare via UnitedHealth Group
What You Should Know:
– Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was tragically shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred outside the New York…
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UnitedHealth Group’s HHS OCR breach notice filing indicates that the information of 100 million Americans was exposed in Change Healthcare’s February 2024 ransomware attach.
The company had previously said only that the cyberattack…
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A US Senate subcommittee report finds that UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS disproportionately denied prior authorization PA requests for post-acute care in their Medicare Advantage patients, often by using AI-driven tools.
UnitedHealth’s denial rate…
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Kevin Kirkwood, CISO at Exabeam
Almost weekly, we see headlines about cyber incidents disrupting patient care, compromising patient privacy, or both. The growing interconnectedness of the healthcare ecosystem, combined with heavy reliance on third-party providers,…
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Oren Koren, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Veriti
Billions in payments disrupted. Patient care stalled. Personal data of one in three Americans exposed. The February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth subsidiary, didn’t…
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Mike Harris, Sr. Manager of Business Development for ELATEC Inc.
In February 2024, the Change Healthcare ransomware attack shut down healthcare billing and authorization systems for providers across the nation, substantially impacting business systems, finances…
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The following is a guest article by Ron Zayas, Founder and CEO at Ironwall360, an Incogni company
Stemming access to private employee info can close cracks in the network
The recent data breach that took down…
