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Report: 52% of Healthcare Email Breaches Involve Microsoft 365 as “Silent Fallback” Exposes Patient Data
December 9, 2025·3 min read

Report: 52% of Healthcare Email Breaches Involve Microsoft 365 as “Silent Fallback” Exposes Patient Data

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know:  – A new report from Paubox reveals that email remains the number one source of HIPAA breaches,…

Headspace Updates Ebb AI with Voice Mode and Enhanced Memory to Deepen Mental Health Support
December 9, 2025·3 min read

Headspace Updates Ebb AI with Voice Mode and Enhanced Memory to Deepen Mental Health Support

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know:  – Headspace has introduced a suite of significant upgrades to Ebb, its empathetic AI companion, headlined by…

The Organ Shortage Solution: Why Living Kidney Donation is Better Than Waiting for Xenotransplantation
December 9, 2025·6 min read

The Organ Shortage Solution: Why Living Kidney Donation is Better Than Waiting for Xenotransplantation

HIT Consultant – Read More Tina Liedtky, President, Transplant Diagnostics, Thermo Fisher Scientific Over 100,000 Americans are currently waiting for an organ transplant, and over 85% of…

Castlight and Noom Join Forces to Tackle the GLP-1 Cost Crisis Through Integrated Digital Health
December 9, 2025·3 min read

Castlight and Noom Join Forces to Tackle the GLP-1 Cost Crisis Through Integrated Digital Health

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know:  – Castlight Health and Noom have formed a strategic partnership to embed Noom’s preventive health and weight…

Momentum Launches ‘Open Wearables’: The First Open-Source API Unifying 200+ Health Devices
December 9, 2025·3 min read

Momentum Launches ‘Open Wearables’: The First Open-Source API Unifying 200+ Health Devices

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know:  – Momentum has launched Open Wearables, the industry’s first open-source platform designed to unify data from over…

Watch: What Do Republicans Really Want on Health Care?
December 8, 2025·1 min read

Watch: What Do Republicans Really Want on Health Care?

KFF Health News – Read More On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down…

A North Carolina Hospital Was Slated To Open in 2025. Mired in Bureaucracy, It’s Still a Dirt Field.
December 8, 2025·7 min read

A North Carolina Hospital Was Slated To Open in 2025. Mired in Bureaucracy, It’s Still a Dirt Field.

KFF Health News – Read More Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly…

ACA Open Enrollment 2026: Why Integrated Health Tech is Key to Navigating 23.4% Premium Spikes and Subsidy Uncertainty
December 8, 2025·4 min read

ACA Open Enrollment 2026: Why Integrated Health Tech is Key to Navigating 23.4% Premium Spikes and Subsidy Uncertainty

HIT Consultant – Read More Kevin Deutsch, General Manager and SVP of Health Plan Solutions at Softheon The upcoming Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment (OE)…

Medicaid Planning in New York: What Families Should Know Right Now
December 6, 2025·6 min read

Medicaid Planning in New York: What Families Should Know Right Now

HIT Consultant – Read More Long-term care can be expensive, and without the right planning, it can quickly deplete a loved one’s savings. Medicaid can help…

In RFK Jr.’s Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth
December 6, 2025·8 min read

In RFK Jr.’s Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth

KFF Health News – Read More Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can…