UnityPoint Health

UW Health | June 30, 2016

Leaders at UnityPoint Health - Meriter, UnityPoint Health, UW Health, Physicians Plus Insurance Corp., and Unity Health Plans Insurance Corp. (Unity) and Gundersen Health Plan (GHP) have signed two non-binding letters of intent (LOI) to explore potential collaboration between the organizations....

healthcareitnews | July 31, 2018

UnityPoint Health is notifying 1.4 million patients that their records may have been breached when its business system was compromised by a phishing attack. This is the second breach for UnityPoint this year. In April, another phishing attack on staff email accounts at its Madison campus breached the data of 16,000 patients. According to the notice, the health system’s business email system was hit by a series of targeted phishing emails that looked like they were sent from an executive wi...

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...

Managed Healthcare Executive | January 15, 2020

Ride Health, providing smarter transportation for every patient need, announced they raised $6.2 million in a funding round led by Activate Venture Partners. The capital raise is joined by Newark Venture Partners, Anthro Ventures, BioAdvance, Leading Edge Ventures and Startup Health, according to a news release from Cision PR Newswire. Ride Health will use the funds in an initiative of ensuring every patient, everywhere, has access to the care and resources they need to ensure good health. Ride ...