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UnitedHealthcare names new CEO + more · Becker’s Payer Issues Podcast

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  This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
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  Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing
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  for today, January 27th.
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  First, Change Healthcare has increased its estimates of
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  the number of people whose personal and health
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  data was breached in a 2024
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  ransomware attack to a 190,000,000.
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  The UnitedHealth Group claims processing subsidiary had previously
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  reported that hackers compromised the information of a
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  100,000,000 people before releasing the The
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  final
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  number will The final number will be confirmed
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  and filed with the office for civil rights
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  at a later date, end quote.
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  The cyber attack, which delayed health care claims
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  and payments across the country,
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  already represented the largest data breach in the
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  history of health care. UnitedHealth
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  lost
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  $3,090,000,000
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  from the hack in 2024.
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  The spokesperson
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  added, quote, Change Healthcare is not aware of
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  any misuse of individuals' information as a result
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  of this incident and has not seen electronic
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  medical record databases appear in the data during
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  the analysis, end quote.
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  2nd,
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  global IT spending is expected to grow 9.8%
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  in 2025
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  to 5,600,000,000,000,
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  with much of that increase going to price
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  hikes according to Gartner.
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  And while CIO's expectations for Gen AI are
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  on the wane, what the IT consultant called
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  a through of disillusionment,
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  their spending on technology will continue to rise,
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  Gartner predicted.
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  Those hardware upgrades will drive double digit growth
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  in data center systems, devices, and software this
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  year.
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  Here is the forecasted growth in 2025
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  for 5 IT categories according to the port.
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  Data center systems at 23.2%,
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  software at 14.2%,
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  devices at 10.4%,
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  IT services at 9%, communication
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  services at 3.8%.
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  3rd, health systems continue to partner with big
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  tech on AI and cloud computing initiatives. Here
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  are 6 collaborations Becker's has reported on in
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  the last month.
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  Mayo Clinic lost a digital pathology platform January
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  13th, to improve diagnostic speed and accuracy under
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  a partnership with AI giant, Navidea.
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  Stanford Healthcare adopted an AI tool to help
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  inform patients of test results, building it in
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  house with Amazon Bedrock, a service for developing
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  Gen AI applications.
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  6 Health Systems unveiled the Truvita genome project
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  on January 17th, which Microsoft Azure will provide
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  exclusive cloud support for.
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  Co a coalition including Intermountain Health and Microsoft
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  is working to address the increasing challenges in
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  rural health care.
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  Children's Mercy Kansas City is modernizing its infrastructure
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  by adopting a hybrid cloud approach with Amazon
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  Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
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  And lastly, one pillar of Hartford HealthCare's AI
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  strategy is an ecosystem of partnerships that include
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  Google and Amazon.
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