This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing
for today, August 7th.
First, Amazon is collaborating with health systems such
as Advocate Health, Mass General Brigham, and Mount
Sinai to investigate how AI can improve patient
experiences and outcomes.
Amazon said it is collaborating with those health
systems and insurers such as Blue Shield and
Prime Therapeutics
in a bid to harness AI to gain
insight into patients as well as to utilize
computer vision and natural language processing to automate
routine administrative task for health care professionals.
Additionally, Amazon said it is working to develop
AI health care tools.
1 is HealthScribe according to an August 7th
news release from Amazon, which is a HIPAA
compliant service that leverages generative
AI to automatically
clinical notes from physician and patient interaction.
AI has become a central focus for major
tech companies entering the health care space.
Google is collaborating with HCA Healthcare on generative
AI for emergency department visit summaries and nurse
handoffs.
Meanwhile, Microsoft subsidiary, Nuance, is a key contributor
to AI driven clinical documentation.
2nd,
Memorial Hermann Health System led a $14,000,000
seed funding round for Guide Health,
driven health services platform that partners with health
systems and clinical networks to enhance value based
care.
Fabie Abraham, executive vice president and chief strategy
officer of the health system, said in an
August 6th news relief,
quote, we invested in Guide Health because we
believe in their vision to improve health outcomes
while lowering overall costs and alleviating the administrative
burdens that physicians experience when managing their patient
panels, end quote.
According to the release, Guide Health enhances access
to care and improves health outcomes for patients
within value based care models through its technology
platforms that offers organizations
AI tools, and proprietary
AI that create a unified care plan where
predictive analytics unmodifiable
risks.
3rd,
hospital and health system vendors continue to be
targeted in cyberattacks in 2024,
creating data breaches that ultimately affect health care
organizations.
These breaches compromised protected health information across the
US.
In 2024, health systems across the US, such
as Staten Island University Hospital, UCHealth,
Catholic Medical Center, Regional One Health, and SFM
Health reported that patients' protected health information was
compromised due to a breach at vendors they
work with.
In addition, the cyber attack that is being
called the most significant and consequential cyber attack
in American history happened February 21st against UnitedHealth
Group's Change Healthcare.
Change Healthcare provides revenue cycle management services to
hospitals and health systems.
When the attack hit the organization, hospitals and
health systems had to disconnect from Optum Systems.
This caused a and health systems had to
disconnect from Optum Systems.
This caused a ripple effect for health care
organizations
as revenue flow was crippled.
Health system IT leaders told Becker's after the
incident that the change hack revealed the vulnerability
of health care information to third party attacks.
Health care organizations accounted for 35%
of third party breaches according to a security
scorecard report from February 28th.
These breaches significantly impacted the health care and
financial services sectors with 64%
of all third party breaches occurring in North
America.
Additionally, the report highlighted that 98% of organizations
are connected to a third party that experienced
a breach.
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