Industry News Update 11/18/22

The HHS announced it will extend the covid-19 public health emergency past January 11, 2023 & Salesforce announced Patient 360 for Health innovations for behavioral health, advanced therapy management, Salesforce Genie for healthcare, and care coordination.

Hospitals could have to meet minimum cybersecurity standards to participate in the Medicare program, Fortinet informed customers this week about 16 vulnerabilities discovered in the company’s products, and the CMS will increase hospital outpatient payment rates by 3.8 percent in 2023.

MEDITECH announces Traverse Exchange Canada, The FDA listed 23 amoxicillin products on its current drug shortages webpage, & Elon Musk has completed the acquisition of Twitter.

Imprivata announced expansion of its integrated digital identity platform to defragment identities across a broad set of clinical and enterprise applications and MEDITECH expands its population health management offering with Expanse Population Insight.

A flaw in Microsoft OME could lead to leakage of encrypted data and Social Security recipients will receive an 8.7% increase in benefits for 2023 in a cost-of-living adjustment.

The HHS said drug prices are soaring beyond inflation rate, creating affordability challenges for patients, MEDITECH added sepsis detection tools to its Sepsis Management Toolkit, and Cisco announced that it has patched potentially serious vulnerabilities within its network.