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HealthIT Security | April 03, 2020

Zoom annouced it plans to enact a freeze on all feature development and shift its engineering resources for the next 90 days to focus on privacy and security issues, in light of recent cybersecurity concerns that have emerged during the Coronavirus pandemic. The videoconferencing platform has a healthcare-specific service. Meanwhile, the Office for Civil Rights has penalties for HIPAA noncompliance around expanded telehealth use during the crisis. Zoom was listed as an acceptable platform for th...

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KORE | September 21, 2021

KORE, a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) services and solutions, today announced that it has teamed up with Myia Health, an enterprise platform for healthcare delivery in the home, to provide major hospitals with software and IoT managed services that ensure IoT devices are kitted and shipped to patients who are being treated where they live. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of digital transformations in all industries, especially in...

Anthem | April 29, 2020

Anthem earned $1.5 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2019, missing Wall Street's expectations. The insurer raked in $29.6 billion in revenue for the quarter, it said in its earnings release Wednesday. That was up about 20% from $24.7 billion in the first quarter of 2019. In its earnings report (PDF), Anthem touted the steps it has taken to date to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which include easing administrative burdens on providers, waiving cost-sharing for testing an...

Cigna | April 27, 2020

While hospitals have put elective procedures on pause during the pandemic, patients seeking care for serious health needs have also decreased significantly, new data from Cigna show. Researchers at the insurer studied care utilization among their commercial group and individual plan members between January and March across seven conditions and found decreases in hospitalizations across the board. For example, the hospitalization rate related to atrial fibrillation decreased by 35% ...