Covid-19 pandemic revealed hospitals' error-driven patient harm despite heroic efforts. Rise in preventable hospital-acquired infections proved hospitals' failure in handling public health crises and infection prevention. Consequently, increased federal interest in addressing patient safety rose, with new CMS standards and White House calls for better accountability, policy oversight, and technology utilization. Post-pandically, hospitals have begun addressing these issues, with decreasing infection rates and implementing AI innovation.

Cloud migration challenges and solutions identified by Nutanix include refactoring, AI integration, vendor lock-in, security, skill shortages, and lack of support. Companies can move applications to the cloud without re-writing them, utilize AI to modernize, avoid vendor lock-in by using dual vendor strategy, choose their data location for maximum security, operate with a singular team, and utilize Nutanix's good support for their Cloud Platform.

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Apple might enter the Smart Ring Wearable HealthTech market, competing with Samsung and market leader Oura. Indications include market growth, patent activity, and industry reports. Samsung's Galaxy Ring, a health and wellness wearable, will release in summer 2024. Speculation suggests Apple's Smart Ring could feature health tracking, gesture control, mobile payments, a small touchscreen, voice control, and authentication tools, possibly releasing in September 2024. The impact on Oura could be mixed, possibly resulting in increased market awareness and innovation, but also increased competition and price pressure.

Apple poised to follow Samsung and enter the Smart Ring Wearable HealthTech market competing with Oura? Healthcare Digital

Northwell and Nuvance Health plan merger, forming 28-hospital system in New York, Connecticut pending regulatory review. Deal enables Northwell to expand into Connecticut and invest significantly in Nuvance. Current financial struggles of Nuvance could be alleviated by merger.

Northwell Health, Nuvance Health to merge Healthcare Dive

BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang claims responsibility for a cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group (UHG) subsidiary, Optum, causing outage of Change Healthcare platform used by over 70,000 US pharmacies. They allegedly stole 6TB of sensitive data from the platform's network, relating to thousands of healthcare providers, insurance firms, and pharmacies, among others. The stolen data allegedly includes medical, insurance, dental records, payments, claims, patient's personally identifiable information (PII), and active US military/navy personnel PII. UnitedHealth Group systems were not affected and new electronic claim procedures have been implemented. They denied using a ScreenConnect auth bypass flaw, contradicting earlier sources. US agencies earlier warned that BlackCat primarily targets the US healthcare sector.

Ransomware gang claims they stole 6TB of Change Healthcare data BleepingComputer