...year, in October, the award session will take place, in which the winners (first, second and third place) will receive a cash prize sponsored by ISfTeH member, Medgate. If you are a student, but not yet a student member in the ISfTeH, submit your membership application at www.isfteh.org/members/how_to_join. If you are working at a school or university and would like your students to be involved in the contest, also contact Dr. Simone Farah. Editor Donna would invite our international Readers to keep up with ISfTeH on their website linked above, with member and supported affiliate events from Finland to Nigeria.... Continue Reading
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News roundup: Now Clover Health faces delisting; BlackCat/ALPHV affiliate with 4TB of data puts it up for sale; $58M for Biolinq’s ‘smallest blood glucose biosensor’
...nasty comments about BlackCat/ALPHV and claiming it had 4TB of data now has put the specs out on a dark web site called Ransomhub. The post first accuses ALPHV of stealing the $22 million ransom paid by UnitedHealth Group and not sharing it with the affiliate. It then claims it has highly sensitive data from multiple Change customers including active military PII (from Tricare), patient PII, payment and claims data, and much more. If Change/UHG isn’t interested, it will be up for sale to the highest bidder. Readers will recall the claims of ‘notchy’ early in the Change Healthcare attack... 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
Walgreens’ latest cuts affect 646 at Florida, Connecticut distribution centers
Walgreens closes two distribution centers to ‘streamline capacities to best support our stores’. Two large centers serving Walgreens retail stores, in Orlando, Florida and Dayville (Killingly), Connecticut, are closing permanently in May, with workers discharged on or before 17 May. Affected are 324 workers in Orlando and 322 workers in Dayville who according to Walgreens will receive severance, additional separation pay, on-site career fairs, and/or outplacement services. While workers in Orlando have a better employment situation locally with unemployment at 3%, Dayville, in northeastern Connecticut’s rural Windham County near the Rhode Island border, is up to 5%. WARN notices were... Continue Reading
News roundup: Cerner goes live at VA, DOD Lovell Center; WebMD expands education with Healthwise buy; Dexcom has FDA OK for OTC glucose sensor; Centene may have buyer for abandoned Charlotte HQ
...in purchase. New Class A space is reportedly relatively rare in Charlotte, though the vacancy rate in the immediate area is at 25%. There is also undeveloped land on the site that has attracted interest from a locally active multifamily developer, although that would require a rezoning. Centene purchased the land in 2020 for $19 million, not including a separate 51-acre parcel purchased later in 2020. In addition to reducing its real estate pattern, Centene has also been reducing its staff with two 2,000-person layoffs in 2023, one in the summer and the second in December. Charlotte Business Journal, Becker’s... Continue Reading
Change Healthcare cyberattack persists–is the BlackCat gang back and using LockBit malware? BlackCat taking credit. (update 28 Feb #2)
...last week by a combined UK NCA and US DOJ/FBI effort. Like weeds, they never go away entirely. Oddly, Change Healthcare’s website home page does not have a notice about their problem or direct to a page on their or UHG’s site about it for assistance. We know you’re busy, guys, but from this Editor’s marketing perspective not having an information banner and redirect to the Optum page is a basic communication failure. **This is a developing story and will be updated.** *Update 27 Feb 9am Eastern Time. A repeat of Optum’s boilerplate statement on their page today indicates this... Continue Reading
Mid-week roundup: Cotiviti’s $10.5B stake to KKR; Cigna buys back $3.2B shares; VA Oracle Cerner faulty med records; LockBit ransomware websites cold-busted at every level, principals indicted; Trualta partners with PointClickCare
...support. PointClickCare is a leading EHR for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers. Trualta provides educational resources to support family caregivers when a patient is discharged through logging in to the resource site, with the ability to access articles, videos, and modules that cover a variety of care topics including preparing for discharge, transitioning from hospital to home, and life after discharge. Trualta’s information will be offered through PointClickCare’s Marketplace. A recent study by Trualta of caregivers using their materials found that 30 days of Trualta use can decrease annual unexpected hospital visits among care recipients by 20%. Trualta release... Continue Reading
23andMe data breach may have targeted those of Jewish and Chinese heritage; company valuation crashes (updated)
23andMe’s hole gets deeper. And deeper. As more dots are connected on their data breach–and financial situation. Part 1: The data breach that exposed 6.9 million records at genetic testing and data company 23andMe isn’t only being fought in the courts as to who to blame (customers recycling already corrupted passwords versus a site vulnerability to brute-force hacking). It appears the hackers had specifically targeted people with Chinese or Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Worse, 23andMe is not addressing that. The evidence was there as early as October. 1 October: an unknown person posts on the 23andMe subReddit that they had customer... Continue Reading
News roundup: Bright Health now NeueHealth; breached patient records double, RCM as vector for hacking; Amazon’s CCM marketplace; JPM reflects the new reality; fundings for Vita Health, Turquoise, CardioSignal
...healthcare pricing platform used by 160 healthcare organizations. 2021-22 seed and Series A raises totaled $25 million. Price transparency is a 2024 hot button issue from government to enterprises to payers. Release, FierceHealthcare CardioSignal raised another $10 million in a Series A from three investors, bringing total funding to $23 million. Based in Finland and Palo Alto, CardioSignal uses a smartphone’s accelerometer and gyroscope sensors to analyze precordial micro-vibrations caused by cardiac motion. The initial analysis is completed in one minute and after a transfer to their cloud site for additional analysis, is returned in about one minute. Release, Mobihealthnews... Continue Reading
Short takes: ransomware op BlackCat busted by FBI, websites shut–for now; health systems lay off IT staffers; retailers collecting way too much PII including health
...to become a backend affiliate, meaning the CHS could log in and use ALPHV’s affiliate panel to manage extortion and ransom campaigns. It sounds like a rather nifty platform with lots of management and negotiation tools if you’re extorting a victim company. How the FBI got the decryption keys is another matter they are mum on, as not available through the affiliate panel, but “they obtained 946 private and public key pairs associated with the ransomware operation’s Tor negotiation sites, data leak sites, and management panel”. US law enforcement was assisted by their counterparts in Europol, plus law enforcement in... Continue Reading
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