1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,159 This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital 2 00:00:02,159 --> 00:00:05,040 Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,580 for today, August 7th. 4 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,744 First, Amazon is collaborating with health systems such 5 00:00:09,744 --> 00:00:11,824 as Advocate Health, Mass General Brigham, and Mount 6 00:00:11,824 --> 00:00:14,804 Sinai to investigate how AI can improve patient 7 00:00:15,469 --> 00:00:16,929 experiences and outcomes. 8 00:00:17,469 --> 00:00:19,710 Amazon said it is collaborating with those health 9 00:00:19,710 --> 00:00:22,109 systems and insurers such as Blue Shield and 10 00:00:22,109 --> 00:00:23,009 Prime Therapeutics 11 00:00:23,524 --> 00:00:25,285 in a bid to harness AI to gain 12 00:00:25,285 --> 00:00:27,684 insight into patients as well as to utilize 13 00:00:27,684 --> 00:00:30,724 computer vision and natural language processing to automate 14 00:00:30,724 --> 00:00:33,229 routine administrative task for health care professionals. 15 00:00:33,850 --> 00:00:36,090 Additionally, Amazon said it is working to develop 16 00:00:36,090 --> 00:00:37,390 AI health care tools. 17 00:00:37,770 --> 00:00:40,534 1 is HealthScribe according to an August 7th 18 00:00:40,534 --> 00:00:42,774 news release from Amazon, which is a HIPAA 19 00:00:42,774 --> 00:00:44,875 compliant service that leverages generative 20 00:00:45,414 --> 00:00:46,475 AI to automatically 21 00:00:47,010 --> 00:00:49,350 clinical notes from physician and patient interaction. 22 00:00:50,289 --> 00:00:52,369 AI has become a central focus for major 23 00:00:52,369 --> 00:00:54,549 tech companies entering the health care space. 24 00:00:54,929 --> 00:00:57,984 Google is collaborating with HCA Healthcare on generative 25 00:00:58,045 --> 00:01:00,765 AI for emergency department visit summaries and nurse 26 00:01:00,765 --> 00:01:01,265 handoffs. 27 00:01:01,804 --> 00:01:04,784 Meanwhile, Microsoft subsidiary, Nuance, is a key contributor 28 00:01:04,844 --> 00:01:06,769 to AI driven clinical documentation. 29 00:01:08,030 --> 00:01:08,530 2nd, 30 00:01:08,989 --> 00:01:11,250 Memorial Hermann Health System led a $14,000,000 31 00:01:11,950 --> 00:01:13,969 seed funding round for Guide Health, 32 00:01:14,954 --> 00:01:17,515 driven health services platform that partners with health 33 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:19,994 systems and clinical networks to enhance value based 34 00:01:19,994 --> 00:01:20,494 care. 35 00:01:20,954 --> 00:01:24,094 Fabie Abraham, executive vice president and chief strategy 36 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:25,689 officer of the health system, said in an 37 00:01:25,689 --> 00:01:27,069 August 6th news relief, 38 00:01:27,769 --> 00:01:29,930 quote, we invested in Guide Health because we 39 00:01:29,930 --> 00:01:32,269 believe in their vision to improve health outcomes 40 00:01:32,409 --> 00:01:35,495 while lowering overall costs and alleviating the administrative 41 00:01:35,795 --> 00:01:39,555 burdens that physicians experience when managing their patient 42 00:01:39,555 --> 00:01:40,855 panels, end quote. 43 00:01:41,234 --> 00:01:44,149 According to the release, Guide Health enhances access 44 00:01:44,149 --> 00:01:46,469 to care and improves health outcomes for patients 45 00:01:46,469 --> 00:01:49,129 within value based care models through its technology 46 00:01:49,349 --> 00:01:51,369 platforms that offers organizations 47 00:01:52,344 --> 00:01:54,045 AI tools, and proprietary 48 00:01:55,064 --> 00:01:57,145 AI that create a unified care plan where 49 00:01:57,145 --> 00:01:58,765 predictive analytics unmodifiable 50 00:01:59,305 --> 00:01:59,805 risks. 51 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:01,090 3rd, 52 00:02:01,790 --> 00:02:04,189 hospital and health system vendors continue to be 53 00:02:04,189 --> 00:02:06,370 targeted in cyberattacks in 2024, 54 00:02:07,069 --> 00:02:09,735 creating data breaches that ultimately affect health care 55 00:02:09,735 --> 00:02:10,235 organizations. 56 00:02:11,175 --> 00:02:14,615 These breaches compromised protected health information across the 57 00:02:14,615 --> 00:02:15,115 US. 58 00:02:15,655 --> 00:02:18,400 In 2024, health systems across the US, such 59 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,219 as Staten Island University Hospital, UCHealth, 60 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,495 Catholic Medical Center, Regional One Health, and SFM 61 00:02:25,715 --> 00:02:28,915 Health reported that patients' protected health information was 62 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:30,915 compromised due to a breach at vendors they 63 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:31,655 work with. 64 00:02:32,099 --> 00:02:34,020 In addition, the cyber attack that is being 65 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:36,740 called the most significant and consequential cyber attack 66 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:40,439 in American history happened February 21st against UnitedHealth 67 00:02:40,659 --> 00:02:41,965 Group's Change Healthcare. 68 00:02:42,665 --> 00:02:45,544 Change Healthcare provides revenue cycle management services to 69 00:02:45,544 --> 00:02:46,925 hospitals and health systems. 70 00:02:47,385 --> 00:02:48,724 When the attack hit the organization, hospitals and 71 00:02:48,724 --> 00:02:49,311 health systems had to disconnect from Optum Systems. 72 00:02:49,311 --> 00:02:50,939 This caused a and health systems had to 73 00:02:50,939 --> 00:02:52,560 disconnect from Optum Systems. 74 00:02:53,020 --> 00:02:54,699 This caused a ripple effect for health care 75 00:02:54,699 --> 00:02:55,199 organizations 76 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:57,120 as revenue flow was crippled. 77 00:02:57,805 --> 00:03:00,205 Health system IT leaders told Becker's after the 78 00:03:00,205 --> 00:03:02,465 incident that the change hack revealed the vulnerability 79 00:03:02,604 --> 00:03:05,025 of health care information to third party attacks. 80 00:03:05,884 --> 00:03:08,379 Health care organizations accounted for 35% 81 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,020 of third party breaches according to a security 82 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,580 scorecard report from February 28th. 83 00:03:14,245 --> 00:03:16,885 These breaches significantly impacted the health care and 84 00:03:16,885 --> 00:03:19,465 financial services sectors with 64% 85 00:03:20,004 --> 00:03:22,564 of all third party breaches occurring in North 86 00:03:22,564 --> 00:03:23,064 America. 87 00:03:23,909 --> 00:03:26,969 Additionally, the report highlighted that 98% of organizations 88 00:03:27,270 --> 00:03:29,610 are connected to a third party that experienced 89 00:03:29,750 --> 00:03:30,409 a breach. 90 00:03:31,189 --> 00:03:33,004 If you like the latest health IT and 91 00:03:33,004 --> 00:03:35,245 digital health industry news delivered to your inbox 92 00:03:35,245 --> 00:03:37,724 every morning, subscribe to the Becker CIO and 93 00:03:37,724 --> 00:03:39,885 Health IT Reu e newsletter through our website 94 00:03:39,885 --> 00:03:40,544 at ww. 95 00:03:43,490 --> 00:03:43,990 Beckershospitalreview.com.