HHS is proposing major changes to HIPAA for the first time in more than a decade, aiming to strengthen cybersecurity protocols for electronic health data. Healthcare cybersecurity leaders are mainly in favor of the proposal — though there are some concerns that smaller providers will struggle with the financial and operational burdens of compliance.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
OMNY Health — a national data ecosystem that facilitates biotech and medical research — launched a data network consisting of EHR data from more than 645,000 GLP-1 users. The data network seeks to give OMNY’s life sciences and health system partners a vast source of GLP-1 data that is related to patient demographics and social determinants of health.
The 11 companies in the accelerator's fifth cohort were drawn from around the United States and U.K. and are focused on everything from VR medical education to helping make patient feedback surveys easier to administer.