Prior to being acquired by Emdeon, a subsidiary of WebMD, Change Healthcare was established in 2007 to develop healthcare consumer engagement and health plan cost transparency tools. The acquisition took place in 2014, and in 2015, Emdeon and its associated business units rebranded under the Cha...
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At the current pace, we can expect tremendous changes in the healthcare sector to benefit everyone. Here are some of the handpicked tech tools that have the potential to change the dynamics of healthcare in the near future: 3 Revolutionizing Healthcare Tech Tools Drug research,primary packaging...
Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealth Group, testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing examining cyber attacks on health care, and the Change Healthcare cyber attack, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The Change Healthca...
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According to health tech experts, generative AI is poised to affect research capabilities, clinical decision support, patient care, healthcare administration, communication, and clinician education and training. 1. Research Medical research is already benefiting from generative AI, and experts expect the...
If we completely entrust robots with the role of caring, the bigger concern is not the foreseeable decrease in the "humanity" in healthcare contexts, but the much more challenging notion of people surrendering the value and meaning in their lives. Since caring about something means, firstly, ...
Existing models of care are being disrupted by tech-driven shifts in virtual care, clinical diagnoses, and administrative processes, especially as tech giants and retail players enter the health care market. Many health care organizations are not ready to adopt the latest technologies, such as gener...
PHARMACIES NATIONWIDE FACE DELAYS AS HEALTH-CARE TECH COMPANY REPORTS CYBERATTACK A merchandise aisle and a prescription sign at a Walgreens store in New York City. The company told FOX Business that the "vast majority" of its prescriptions were not impacted by the cyberattack...
“We are working on multiple approaches to restore the impacted environment and will not take any shortcuts or take any additional risk as we bring our systems back online,” Change Healthcare stated on its seventh day of outages. Meanwhile, healthcare organizations are in limbo as the...