The FTC has received 166 complaints over the past five years referencing MyChart, with several related to the current “Medicare Kit” phishing wave, Gizmodo reported. The scam emails carry subject lines such as “Your MyChart Medicare Kit Awaits!” and offer…
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UnitedHealth Group’s Optum has sold interest in some of Optum’s Florida WellMed clinics to private equity company TPG, Bloomberg originally reported Sept. 9. UnitedHealth Chief Financial Officer Wayne DeVeydt told Bloomberg that the healthcare company was looking for a partner…
Cleveland Clinic is partnering with AI automation company Luminai to automate complex administrative workflows across the health system. The health system will initially use Luminai’s technology to automate the processing of external referrals, according to a Sept. 9 news release.…
AdventHealth Murray broke ground Sept. 2 on a new hospital campus in Chatsworth, Ga. The 185,000-square-foot campus will house a 42-bed hospital and a medical office building, according to a Sept. 2 Facebook post from AdventHealth Murray. It is a…
EHR company Veradigm has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving one of its third-party vendors. An unauthorized party obtained credentials from the vendor’s environment and used them to access a Veradigm application programming interface, downloading personal data — including Social Security…
The FDA has flagged 13 medical device recalls, corrections and early alerts over the past two weeks, affecting spinal cord stimulators, patient monitoring systems, convenience kits, catheters, breathing circuits, ventilators and heart pumps. Here are the 13 to know, split…
Santa Fe, N.M.-based Quel Health launched a telehealth platform focused on using GLP-1 receptor agonists in addiction care. The platform is available in 41 states and the District of Columbia, with national coverage planned by year-end, according to a Sept.…
A total of 401 hospitals in the U.S. have a central line-associated bloodstream infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. The Healthcare-Associated Infections dataset, updated Aug. 13, includes performance data for five types of…
Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health is deploying Tecsys’ Hospital Point of Use technology across its 19 acute care and specialty hospitals to improve visibility into product use at the point of care. The deployment extends Prisma Health’s existing Tecsys supply chain…
Health system executives who keep a primary residence in one city and travel to another for work are not a new phenomenon. But as systems recruit nationally, expand across state lines and compete for high-level talent, where an executive is…