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🛡️ Change Healthcare finds itself in a ransomware double trouble, courtesy of RansomHub, a new player in the cybercrime scene. This upstart group claims to be holding a whopping 4 terabytes of the company's pilfered data, demanding a ransom for the return of the digital loot. As Change Healthcare scrambles to sort out this mess with law enforcement, cybersecurity pundits are shaking their heads at the predictably unpredictable antics of ransomware groups. Meanwhile, the fallout hits medical practices hard, with physicians feeling the financial pinch and patients left in the lurch. While RansomHub promises to hit delete if paid, trusting cybercriminals seems about as wise as expecting a goldfish to fetch your slippers.
🌾 America's freshest crop of doctors are diagnosing the very state of their profession. Faced with towering student debt and marathon work hours, these young docs are pushing for change, leading the charge to unionize and demand better pay and conditions across institutions like Kaiser and Montefiore Medical Center. And it's not just the greenhorns – seasoned docs are jumping on the bandwagon too, fed up with losing control in a corporate healthcare world. As the medical landscape undergoes transformation, these doctors are working towards a future that prioritizes their well-being and the quality of care for their patients.
System sizzle 🌶️
…your zoom in on ingenious health systems.
🍪 UC San Diego Health is taking patient-physician communication to a whole new level. Since April 2023, they've been piloting generative artificial intelligence in their Epic EHR system, and published their findings in JAMA Network Open on April 15. While the AI didn't exactly turn physicians into speed demons, it did kickstart some seriously empathetic drafts for them to finesse. Picture this: longer, warmer responses that'd make even the toughest cookie melt. Dr. Ming Tai-Seale, the brains behind the operation, sees this AI as the ultimate sidekick for physicians facing an inbox tsunami of 200 messages a week.
Neat News 🗞️
📝 Nabla teamed up with Greenway Health to power Greenway Clinical Assist™, the company's newly launched AI assistant for clinical note generation. Neat.
💸 Two Chairs raised $72M Series C in equity and debt to scale its therapist network. Super neat.
🤝 ASPIVIX and Bayer Switzerland collaborate to reduce pain in women’s health procedures, including IUDs. Ultra neat.
Clean Content 🧼
🍿 Rock Health just dropped their Q1 2024 digital health funding report, and it’s a fun one.
🔎 Here are 19 AI healthtechs to watch, according to VCs. 14 was always our favorite number 🙈
💡 Henry Mahncke talks about building a flywheel of scientific validation for digital health startups. It’s the wheel deal.
This is what you came for 🍑
🔥 So, turns out, chasing after your ex for a little post-breakup action might not be as detrimental as everyone makes it out to be. Research found that while trying to get back in the sack with your former flame might make you a tiny bit clingy, it doesn't exactly derail your breakup recovery train. Despite some recall bias and a narrow definition of what "sexual activity" entails, it's clear that maybe we've been a bit too quick to judge those late-night "Hey, you up?" texts. So next time your friends start wagging their fingers about your ex-related escapades, just hand them this 12-page peer-reviewed baby.
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🙌 A massive shoutout to the brilliant minds who fueled the Hoagie this week - Amdy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, Tina Reed, Annie Pierce, Adriana Krasniansky, Mihir Somaiya, Kai Nicol-Schwarz, Henry Mahncke the Femtech Insider team.