Healthcare organizations face margin pressures. Leveraging contracts, consolidating SKUs, buying cheaper supplies necessary yet insufficient. Business model redesign, scalable reinvestment, efficiency innovation, and deploying leadership skills to manage portfolio are highly recommended. Successful implementation bolsters margins, improves critical outcomes.

The Margin Mandate! LinkedIn

Epic Systems plans 60+ AI development projects for 2024, seeking to enhance clinical efficiency, patient experience, and operational efficiency, and advancing medicine. Initiatives include generative AI for clinical workloads, chat and chatbot tools for patient interaction, data insights for staffing decisions, and using AI to bring evidence-based medicine to point of care. Additionally, they'll leverage EpicResearch.org to share Cosmos data insights globally.

A glimpse into Epic's 2024 strategy Becker's Hospital Review

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients receive ransom emails after data breach. Attacker threatens to leak 800,000 patient data, demands 50 bitcoins (over $2 million). Organization investigating breach; extending support to affected patients. Patient extortion isn't new; cybercriminals also target patients when organizations decline ransoms.

Cybercriminals seek to extort Fred Hutch patients for about $2M Healthcare IT News

Oklahoma's Integris Health network suffered a cyberattack, with patient data stolen and held for ransom. Blackmail emails with detailed personal data sent to patients, followed by Integris Health's confirmation of unauthorized activity, confirmed the breach. Hackers claim they stole data for 2+ million patients, threatening to sell it if no ransom paid. Their dark web site currently lists data for ~4.674M people, with options to pay to view or delete records. Similarities with an attack on Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center suggest the same ransomware gang may be responsible. However, paying to delete data offers no guarantees and may encourage further extortion.

Integris Health patients get extortion emails after cyberattack BleepingComputer