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Healthcare is a lifesaving service, which unfortunately makes it the target for attacks. In addition, healthcare workers face a number of risks including violent patients and distraught loved ones. Because of these risks, it's essential that healthcare organizations help protect their employees and guests. Security magazine highlights a few products that can help better secure healthcare facilities. Avigilon Utilizes AI to Search Through Recorded Video

Social Security recipients got some decent news at the end of October. The Social Security Administration announced that in 2026, benefits are getting a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. It's actually good news for a couple of reasons. First, a 2.8% COLA beats the 2.5% raise seniors on Social Security got at the start of 2025. Also, a 2.8% COLA means inflation hasn't been too rampant in recent months.

He and Brody conspired to commit healthcare fraud by submitting fraudulent insurance claims so that Done members could dispense Adderall at pharmacies while continuing to pay their membership fees - resulting in $14 million in payouts from insurance companies, prosecutors said. The false claims said that Done did urine drug screenings, stated that non-stimulant drugs had been tried prior to stimulants and used the DSM-5 to diagnose ADHD.

"We want everything to move really, really fast and we want to get a new molecule that's going to change the world in another six months," says Diogo Rau, Eli Lilly's chief information and digital officer. But despite that urgency, Rau acknowledges that science still takes time. New drug discovery can take well over a decade and well north of $2 billion, on average, before they can obtain regulatory approval.

In telephone calls carried out in Chinese, the scammers reel in targets under the pretense that they have unpaid bills related to recent surgical procedures. They use spoofed telephone numbers belonging to the claims departments of legitimate US health insurance providers to add a layer of authenticity to the scam, but that authenticity quickly evaporates. If, for some reason, targets entertain the conversation about paying for a surgery they almost certainly did not receive, the scammers get them to join a video call.

The Patient Ombudsman's annual report released Thursday says there were 4,886 new complaints filed between April 2024 and March 2025, a 10 per cent increase over the year before. It also notes it resolved 4,863 complaints, some of which carry year-over-year. Among the issues highlighted in the report are that many patients don't feel heard; the need to improve discharge protocols in emergency rooms; use of force for challenging behaviours; and a lack of trauma-informed obstetrical/gynecological care, which The Canadian Press reported on in June.

In a statement published this week, Synnovis said the investigation "took more than a year to complete because the compromised data was unstructured, incomplete and fragmented, and often very difficult to understand." It added that specialist incident response teams had to use "highly specialized platforms and bespoke processes" to work through terabytes of jumbled information and identify which healthcare providers' patients were affected.

Post-acute care providers are spending 25 cents of every dollar on administrative tasks rather than patient care, resulting in structural inefficiency that has intensified as private equity consolidation demands operational excellence while caregiver shortages and regulatory complexity reach critical levels. Traditional electronic medical record systems were built for clinical documentation, not workforce coordination, leaving front-office teams drowning in scheduling conflicts, compliance tracking, and hiring pipelines that consume resources without adding clinical value.

"I remember waiting every Friday for the officials to call our family's name," Roman recalls. "When they finally did, it felt like winning the lottery."

We designed a clinic that resembles a house, featuring a series of small gabled roofs scaled to children's proportions.

Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found. More than 2,100 care homes in England as of October this year were rated as "requires improvement" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - but the BBC found three quarters of those had not been reinspected within a year or more.

Medicare Advantage enrollment jumped 32% year over year to 106,323 members, the clearest sign that Clover's technology-first model is resonating with both brokers and beneficiaries. Revenue growth of 34% from the prior year quarter underscores how scale is driving top-line expansion. What matters here is that the company achieved this growth during what management called a "3.5 star payment year," meaning reimbursement rates were compressed. That's a meaningful distinction.

Doctronic addresses this access problem by delivering AI-powered medical consultations in minutes rather than weeks, combining free, anonymous symptom assessments with on-demand access to licensed physicians across all 50 states for $39 per video visit. The platform has already processed over 15 million medical conversations with more than 1 million unique users, handling 50,000 weekly visits through its collective intelligence architecture where multiple specialized AI agents engage in clinical reasoning under physician oversight.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming nearly every corner of healthcare-from diagnostics to patient management-and medical education is no exception. With the market for AI in healthcare rapidly expanding, adopting AI in medical education has become essential for training tomorrow's healthcare professionals. Luckily, by embracing technologies like adaptive learning platforms and virtual simulations, medical schools can help prepare students for an AI-driven future in healthcare.

When Iñaki Ereño assumed the role of Group CEO of Bupa in 2021, the global healthcare landscape was being rewritten in real time. At the helm of a company serving over 60 million customers worldwide, Ereño faces the challenge of transforming a large and established organization into a faster, more agile, and digitally enabled provider of care. Ereño's mission? To wake the sleeping giant.

"Literally no one ever mentions direct care workers. I work with people with disabilities. I've been at my job for almost 10 years, and I've gotten maybe four raises." - jessicalewis2

"If I have to summarize it in one word, I would say the biggest challenge in claims and reimbursement is guess work," said Puneet Maheshwari, senior vice president and general manager of Optum Real, to the audience on Tuesday. "The guesswork that happens on the provider side. The guesswork that happens on the payer side leads to significant amount of work and overhead for both parties involved ...."

Ensemble Health, a major player in healthcare revenue management, is seeking a potential $13 billion sale or IPO next year, Business Insider has learned. Ensemble, owned primarily by private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners, has tapped JPMorgan to pursue a sale, five people with knowledge of the deal told Business Insider. At the same time, Ensemble is considering an IPO and has pulled in Goldman Sachs to support the dual-track approach, three of the people said.

I explained that his father wasn't able to clear secretions from his throat or airway, which produced a rattling sound. I understood his concern and recognized the fear in his eyes. When I was caring for my dad, I assumed he was choking. At the time, I didn't know that the unsettling noise was a natural part of the dying process.

Point32Health announced it is laying off 254 employees on Monday, its second round of reductions this year. The non-profit company said in a statement that the layoffs are part of an effort to reduce administrative costs as it continues to experience unprecedented increases in medical care and pharmaceutical costs. Point32Health also cut 110 jobs in March. The company has about 4,000 employees, it reports on its website.

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Citing financial challenges and economic uncertainty, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is preparing to reduce its workforce by 87 positions in December, according to a notification that the Palo Alto medical institution filed with the state this week. The hospital at 725 Welch Road submitted on Oct. 10 a notice with the state Department of Economic Development listing the 87 positions that will be eliminated by Dec. 12, 2025. According to an accompanying letter from N. Christopher Comma, vice president for human resources at the hospital, the employees will remain on the payroll with benefits until that time.

Former Cano Health CEO Marlow Hernandez is facing a jury trial this week over allegations of fraud and corruption. The trial, set to begin on Monday, will examine claims that Hernandez used his position to illicitly enrich himself and his family - actions the plaintiffs say helped drive Cano into bankruptcy. This will be the first time Hernandez has faced trial for his alleged misconduct at Cano, which he founded in 2009.

The nurse, Helle Wictor, contacted the Innovation department at Helsingborg City where she worked, and what is now Optisense Care, has emerged from that work. The startup focuses on developing a smart, radar-equipped toilet seat, under the name ZenSeat, that uses AI to monitor bowel movements, helping caregivers detect constipation early in dementia patients and prevent serious health complications. Is it possible to invent something that alerts the nursing staff if a patient hasn't pooped? said Helle Wictor, the initiator of the idea

Editor's note: This story is part two of a MinnPost series by Matthew Blake on Minnesota's efforts to stabilize its nursing home workforce - a sector long challenged by high turnover. Part one looks at the state's plan and the pushback to it from nursing home operators. Next March, Mary Voerding is due to celebrate her 30th year at Maplewood Rehabilitation Center, a suburban Twin Cities nursing home where she has worked as a nurse, care coordinator and now front desk receptionist.

They're sitting on a lot of money. And that money seems to be not meant for their staff that are currently out here today,

The US healthcare system's capacity crisis has reached a breaking point in neurology, where 145 million Americans with chronic neurological conditions face average wait times of 4-6 months to see a specialist, if they can find one at all. This shortage isn't just an inconvenience; it's forcing millions to cycle through emergency departments, endure preventable suffering, and watch treatable conditions worsen while they wait.