...Kalina is married with children, a senior analyst for the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, and works with other traumatic injury survivors. ‘A Leg To Stand On’ on LinkedIn We discussed the extent and the effect of traumatic injury. Globally, there are 140 million who experience one or more traumatic injuries. These disproportionately affect lower to middle-income and minority people. Based on claims analysis, an Ohio study found that 13% of Medicaid beneficiaries have had physical trauma in the prior year. Timing and quality of rehabilitation are vital to better outcomes, to recovering ability and gaining employment. But there are a... Continue Reading
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News roundup: VillageMD sued on Meta Pixel trackers; Cerebral pays $7.1M FTC fine on data sharing, cancellation policy; VA may resume Oracle Cerner implementation during FY2025; Epic-Particle Health dispute on PHI sharing
...of Florida. The fine for the company only penalized the following: Cerebral released 3.2 million consumers’ information to third parties such as practices, LinkedIn, and TikTok. This included PHI and PII such as names, medical histories, addresses, IP addresses, payment methods including insurance, sexual orientation, and more. Even more outrageously, they also used the mail for postcards that had sensitive information such as diagnosis printed on them. The insult on injury was that Cerebral failed to disclose or buried information on data sharing to consumers signing up for their ‘safe, secure, and discreet’ services. Cerebral now has to restrict nearly... Continue Reading
News roundup: Amwell faces NYSE delisting; Walmart Health slows Health Centers, except Texas; Novosound’s ultrasound patent; Eko’s Low EF AI; Universal Brain; Elizabeth Holmes in ‘Dropout’ + update
...15 seconds. Trained on a proprietary dataset of over 100,000 ECGs and echocardiogram pairs from unique patients, clinically validated in a multi-site, prospective clinical study of 3,456 patients, it requires only a minimum of specialized training as part of the SENSORA Cardiac Early Detection Platform that can be used just about anywhere. The Eko Low EF was developed in conjunction with the Mayo Clinic. Eko release, MedCityNews Universal Brain, which has developed a range of wearables that measure brain activity, named three new executives: Greg Hajcak, PhD, as tChief Scientific Advisor, Vangelis Lympouridis, PhD as Chief Product Officer, and K.T.... Continue Reading
Telemental news roundup: Brightside Health expands Medicaid/Medicare partners; Blackbird Health gains $17M Series A; Nema Health’s PTSD partnership with Horizon BCBSNJ
...model considers in an ‘understand-first’ approach how children’s brains develop over time and the impact that growth has on mental health. Another unique aspect is that they developed a series of ‘Blackbird Biotypes’ based on 50 million data points drawn over a decade that identify patterns of behavior in clusters of individuals with similar symptoms-linked brain features. These assist in assessment, accurately identifying the underlying root cause of symptoms, and proposing integrated and personalized treatment plans. Blackbird claims this approach results in substantially lower use of medications and ED utilization. Last year, Evolent Health co-founder and COO Tom Peterson joined... Continue Reading
Neuralink BCI human implant subject moving computer mouse by thought: Elon Musk
The first patient implanted with the Neuralink brain-computer interface (BCI) reportedly is well and has moved a computer mouse cursor by thought. Mr. Musk said this Monday during an X Spaces event, according to Reuters. The thought control is limited to moving the cursor around the screen. Quoted in the Independent (UK), Musk said, “We’re trying to get as many button presses as possible from thinking. So that’s what we’re currently working on is: can you get left mouse, right mouse, mouse down, mouse up… We want to have more than just two buttons.” This is rapid progress, given that... Continue Reading
Another icy bucket: who is liable when a healthcare AI system fails?
When AI contributes to patient injury, who will be held responsible? That is the question that an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM, 18 Jan, subscription required). It examines over 800 cases, pulling out the most relevant information on the 51 cases with software creating physical injury. If you are in a healthcare provider or vendor legal department and strategic sourcing, this article deserves your greatest scrutiny. AI and even software represent a relatively new area of tort law (an act or omission that leads to injury or harm). Responsibility is not clear because there is a... Continue Reading
News roundup: Musk’s Neuralink implants first human BCI; Cigna’s $3.7B MA sale to HCSC; no Amazon deal for iRobot; DispatchHealth-Instacart food Rx; 5 India health tech fundings (updated)
...human clinical trials until last year. Research and companies in the BCI race have been making news since at least 2016 but have not reached clinical trials. In 2022 Synchron had an oversubscribed Series C of $75 million for the Stentrode blood vessel device (in clinical trials) and Synchron Switch BCI devices [TTA 17 Dec 22]. Last year, Precision Neuroscience raised $41 million in a Series B [TTA 28 Jan 23]. Their focus is on treatment of neurological illnesses and events such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia. Of course, one could debate implant ethics, but not for these... Continue Reading
Got a data breach? Blame the victims like 23andMe did!
...into this is the weakness of US law around what constitutes ‘reasonable security procedures’ for securing personal information–and that is from the wording of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which may be the US’ toughest privacy law. On one hand, users have responsibility for a decent, unique password every time–but on the other hand, 23andMe bears responsibility for securing its shared data and not letting a breach get wildly out of hand like this one did. And what if next time it’s the actual DNA information? The insult to injury: In December, 23andMe changed their terms of service to... Continue Reading
Legal roundup: Dorsata sues athenahealth, provider group on trade secret theft, Nevada terms Friday Health Plans
...the civil court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts and is searchable here. Dorsata is seeking damages incurred from a loss of expected profits, the value of injury to reputation, a loss of company valuation, the value of future lost business as well as damages for unlawfully gained commercial marketplace advantage. “We’ve been severely damaged, and we hope the court will rectify the situation,” David Fairbrothers, cofounder and CEO of Dorsata, told Mobihealthnews in an email. athenahealth has stated that the suit is ‘without merit’. Becker’s Friday Health Plan’s last state, Nevada, shuts down their plans. The Nevada Division of Insurance is... Continue Reading
Babylon Health to go private with AlbaCore in planned ‘Take Private Proposal’, combine with MindMaze
...on a summer Friday when corporate news goes to hide till the following week) is brief in content despite its eight pages, half of which is devoted to the press release. It delivers the following: The core operating subsidiaries of Babylon will be transferred to MindMaze. MindMaze is a private Lausanne, Switzerland-headquartered healthcare company in neuroscience and digital neurotherapeutics in areas such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. This apparently covers the ‘Go-Forward Business” mentioned in May. “The Proposed Transaction provides for a new capital structure and a reduction of pro forma company debt, and is... Continue Reading
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