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How chatbots can keep patients engaged outside providers’ offices.

Point32Health, the parent organization of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and other health insurance plans, has taken HPHC systems offline, and providers are unable to confirm patient eligibility.

Kaiser and Geisinger join to form Risant Health while eVisit acquires complementary digital engagement technology and Verisma merges with ScanSTAT.

"We are at a tipping point where technology can help disrupt what used to only occur within doctors' offices and enable people to get access to affordable and accessible guidance," says the health system's chief digital engagement officer.

Andrea Palm, deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says the agency is striving to "put the people we serve at the center of what we do." Meanwhile, ONC officials offer updates on new Cures Act rules.

A software patch is available to prevent cybersecurity threats to patient care, genomic data and provider networks from software vulnerabilities in Illumina's benchtop and production-scale genomic sequencing instruments.

Also, Aster DM Healthcare has opened a telemedicine command and digital health centre in India.

Also, the WA government has announced new funding to begin the first phase launch of the WA Virtual Emergency Department.

The new APFIT funding enables DoD to further the Defense Innovation Unit's use of algorithms to analyze biometric data from commercial wearables and predict infections up to 48 hours before service members' symptoms appear.