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Walgreens Shareholders Approve $10 Billion Private Equity Buyout

Forbes Healthcare

Sycamore also agreed to “one non-transferable right" to receive up to $3 in cash per Walgreens share “from the future monetization of WBA’s debt and equity interests in VillageMD, which includes the Village Medical, Summit Health and CityMD businesses,” the companies said of Walgreens’ primary care businesses.

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Hedge Funds Are Investing In Employee Wellness To Enable Peak Performance

Forbes Healthcare

getty Top-tier hedge fund Citadel announced last week that it will be hiring its first ever chief medical officer. The firm already provides some degree of on-site medical services enabled by third-party healthcare providers; the new role will aim to optimize healthcare benefits, concierge care and health plans. More workforce.

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Henry Ford Health Settles Tracking Technology Lawsuit

The HIPAA Journal

Those tools collected visitor information, including protected health information (PHI), which was transferred to third parties such as Meta and Google Inc. From the information collected, third parties could infer that a patient was being treated for a specific medical condition, such as cancer, pregnancy, or addiction.

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Global Drug Development Shifts East

Forbes Healthcare

Just as the upstart AI breakthrough caught Silicon Valley off-guard, China is emerging as a formidable force in drug development, fundamentally altering the global landscape of medical innovation. This stagnation comes at a time when medical needs are growing and pharmaceutical innovation is more critical than ever.

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March 2024 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

The last time more than 90 data breaches were reported in a single month was September 2020. Across the 93 reported data breaches, the protected health information of 2,971, 249 individuals was exposed or impermissibly disclosed – the lowest total for March since 2020. of all records compromised in March.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

If true, this would still be between double and triple the size of Permanente Medical Groups. Optum’s medical group acquisition strategy to date has targeted independent (e.g. non-hospital) medical groups with significant at-risk (e.g. An educated guess would be that Optum employs from 45 to 60 thousand physicians.

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