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Palantir Sues Y Combinator Startup Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Forbes Healthcare

Former Palantir employees Mayank Jain and Pranav Pillai started Guardian AI to help healthcare providers fight insurance claim denials. Now their former employer is suing them for allegedly stealing trade secrets.

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A Journey of Perseverance and Purpose in Healthcare and Human Services

Minority Nurse

Lisa-Marie Ortega’s journey to earning her degree at Post University is one of resilience, determination, and a deep passion for serving others. After being just a few credits away from completing her undergraduate degree two decades ago, life took an unexpected turn. A series of family tragedies forced her to leave school, and over the years, she found herself facing professional roadblocks due to the lack of a degree.

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Vitamin A And Its Role In Treating Measles

Forbes Healthcare

Vitamin A has a limited role in treating measles, but mainly in low-income countries and in children that are vitamin A deficient.

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173,000 Patients Affected by Chord Specialty Dental Partners Email Data Breach

The HIPAA Journal

CDHA Management, LLC and Spark DSO, LLC, which do business as Chord Specialty Dental Partners, have recently notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights about a data breach that involved unauthorized access to the protected health information of up to 173,430 individuals. The Tennessee-based dental service organization provides business and operational support services to more than 60 dental practices in Indiana, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee

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As Measles Outbreak Spikes, NIH Drastically Cuts Funding On Vaccine Hesitancy

Forbes Healthcare

A measles outbreak that began in Texas has risen to nearly 500 cases. At the same time, the NIH says it is dramatically cutting back funding on vaccine hesitancy.

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What is a Consumer Health Company? Riffing Off of Deloitte’s Report on CHCs/A 2Q2025 Look at Self-Care Futures

Health Populi

The health care landscape in 2030 will feature a n expanded consumer health industry t hat will become, “an established branch of the health ecosystem focused on promoting health, preventing, disease, treating symptoms and extending healthy longevity,” according to a report published by Deloitte in September 2024, Accelerating the future: The rise of a dynamic consumer health market.

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Azura Vascular Care Agrees to $3.15 Million Data Breach Settlement

The HIPAA Journal

A settlement has been reached to resolve class action litigation against Fresenius Vascular Care, Inc., which does business as Azura Vascular Care.Azura Vascular Care is a Pennsylvania-based operator of 70 outpatient vascular centers and ambulatory surgery centers in 25 states and Puerto Rico. On October 9, 2023, Azura Vascular Care identified suspicious network activity, with the forensic investigation confirming that hackers had access to its network between September 27, 2023, and October 9,

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Americans Are Dying Younger: Will RFK Jr.’s Policies Help Or Harm?

Forbes Healthcare

RFK Jr. is now responsible for tackling Americas life expectancy crisis. Will his decisions as HHS secretary narrow the gap with peer nations or widen it?

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HR and H&S Updates – March 2025

Practice Index

A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in March 2025. HR Updates Amber alerts Dismissal of teacher for controversial social media posts was discriminatory Chief Exec of NHS Trust was constructively dismissed after alleging bullying by the Trusts Chair Green alerts UPDATE: Employee who hid previous dismissal from employer was fairly dismissed (again) The post HR and H&S Updates March 2025 appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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JPMorgan’s Health Unit To Invest In Small Business Health Plans

Forbes Healthcare

JPMorganChases Morgan Health will invest into a company called Venteur to boost the ventures effort to sell health plans to small and medium-sized businesses.

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Financial security, mental health, and work-life balance top concerns for American workers

Medical Economics

What is your practice doing to address these issues?

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Lawmakers push for more oversight of organ donation amid reports of line skipping

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent letters to HHS officials asking why a growing number of organs have been allocated out of order.

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340B Exposed: New Study Shows Wealthy Hospitals Profit While Rural Patients Lose Out

Patients Rising

Hospitals in rich areas are cashing in on a federal program meant for poor and rural communities, a bombshell new study reveals. The study, published in the peer-reviewed public health […] The post 340B Exposed: New Study Shows Wealthy Hospitals Profit While Rural Patients Lose Out appeared first on Patients Rising.

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Ardent Health names COO

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The Tennessee-based provider snagged Dave Caspers from the retail world, where he has held positions at Leslie’s and Walmart Health, according to a company spokesperson.

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How physicians actually use AI: Denton Shanks, DO

Medical Economics

How Denton Shanks, DO, of the University of Kansas Medical System, uses artificial intelligence.

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Marathon Health CEO Jeff Wells on lessons learned 1 year post-merger

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Marathon Health has added approximately 100 health centers and integrated its technology platform as it looks to expand access to value-based care.

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How physicians actually use AI: Christi Siedlecki, MSN, RN

Medical Economics

How Christi Siedlecki, MSN, RN, CEO of Grants Pass Clinic, uses artificial intelligence.

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Texas judge overturns FDA’s lab developed test regulation, siding with industry groups

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The judge vacated the FDA’s final rule, which was strongly opposed by the laboratory industry, and remanded the matter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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How physicians actually use AI: May Lin, DO

Medical Economics

How May Lin, DO, a primary care physician with One Medical and assistant dean of Toro University, uses artificial intelligence.

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Tips to Leverage AI in Dental Offices 

Open Dental

In todays rapidly evolving technological landscape, incorporating AI tools into dental practices is no longer a futuristic ideaits a transformative reality. Read this post from our friends at Bola AI to learn more. The post Tips to Leverage AI in Dental Offices appeared first on Open Dental Blog.

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How physicians actually use AI: Jarrett Dodd, MD

Medical Economics

How Jarrett Dodd, MD, chief medical officer of CVFP Medical Group, uses artificial intelligence.

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The critical link between provider wellness and its impact on patient satisfaction

Physicians Practice

Prioritizing provider wellness is essential to improving patient care quality, reducing clinician burnout, and enhancing healthcare outcomes across medical organizations.

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ATA, Digital Therapeutics Alliance form new Advancing Digital Health Coalition

Medical Economics

Merged organizations pledge to advance innovative technologies to improve patient care.

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Platform Shift: From EHRs to UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms) – – Section 2

The Healthcare Blog

By VINCE KURAITIS, GIRISH MURALIDHARAN & JODY RANCK This entry is Section 2 of part 3 of 3 in the series Platforming Healthcare — The Long View. This essay is the next in the series entitled Platforming Healthcare the Long View. The series presents a 30-Year Framework for Platforming Healthcare. An updated v2.0 of a graphic depicting this 30-Year Framework is shown above.

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Incident reporting and patient safety software now available

Medical Economics

Inovalons Safety Management solution now on PointClickCare Marketplace

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HHS begins layoffs in chaotic fashion

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The Trump administration sent out the first round of reduction-in-force notices early Tuesday morning, telling employees the cuts are necessary to improve efficiency at the federal healthcare department. “I’m in shock,” one worker said.

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25 years of patient safety: An introduction to Leapfrog

Medical Economics

Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, discusses the organizations 25th anniversary and more.

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Musk Moves US to Socialized Medicine

The Healthcare Blog

By THCB STAFF After a few weeks analyzing government spending and putting all of his calculations into Grok, the head of DOGE, Elon Musk, has made another decisive move in the attempt to save the government money. Speaking on the Joe Rogan show, Musk declared that his team had given Big Balls and Little Balls instructions to stop screwing around with the minor stuff like cutting off foreign aid saving the lives of children or getting all worked up about storing paper records in a mine, and to go

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Supervision required: Physicians say nurse practitioner independence has gone too far in exclusive survey

Medical Economics

In many states, nurse practitioners are gaining greater permission to practice and prescribe independently, with varying levels of physician oversight. What do physicians think of this trend? See our exclusive physician survey results to find out.

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Heart disease outcome gap narrows between men and women; sudden cardiac arrest survival and incidence in young athletes; new blood test predicts severity of spinal cord injuries – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Trump appointees to lead NIH, FDA start jobs as HHS begins cutting 10,000 health staff

Medical Economics

The revolution begins today, new HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says.

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