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Island Hospital in Malaysia is building a technology-driven integrated health ecosystem in a bid to lower healthcare costs.

Senators Hawley and Blumenthal asked UnitedHealth Group how Change Healthcare's systems were breached, why the clearinghouse suffered "such an egregious and unexplained outage" and the extent of data compromised in the ransomware attack.

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center now relies on videos as part of its virtual care program to educate patients. One of many benefits: It has reduced inbound patient questions – for every 15 questions nurses used to get, now they get only one.

The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations' IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.

Hamish Steel, the 23-year-old founder of Australia's Digital Health Festival, says there are massive opportunities out there to accelerate Australian healthcare's digitalisation.

Also: Cohere Health expedites prior auth through Epic's Payer Platform.

Meanwhile, it's already finding success with AI-enabled patient portals – and ambient scribing is showing big promise too. The Baltimore health system's digital health physician leader explains.

Also, New Zealand's My Health Record has expanded access to more personal health information.

Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking.