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Article: Hackers Use ChatGPT to Target Healthcare

March 24, 2025

Article: Hackers Use ChatGPT to Target Healthcare

Health systems should be on the lookout for a ChatGPT vulnerability hackers are using to target industries including healthcare, the American Hospital Association warns.

Cybersecurity firm Veriti reported March 12 that a server-side request forgery in ChatGPT has been used in more than 10,000 cyberattack attempts worldwide, according to the March 18 AHA article. The National Institute of Standards and Technology scores the vulnerability as “medium risk.”

“This could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data or impact the availability of the AI tool,” said Scott Gee, AHA deputy national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, in the article. “This highlights the importance of integrating patch management into a comprehensive governance plan for AI when it is implemented in a hospital environment.”

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Webinar: AI-enabled Triage Tool Improves ED Capacity, Equity at Yale New Haven Health, March 25

March 24, 2025

Webinar: AI-enabled Triage Tool Improves ED Capacity, Equity at Yale New Haven Health, March 25

Emergency departments face long wait times, inefficient triage and systemic bias, disproportionately affecting non-white, Hispanic and non-English speaking patients. Identifying critical cases early while preventing unnecessary escalations remains a persistent challenge.

Current triage systems struggle to balance accuracy with efficiency, leading to delays in life-saving care and disparities in high-severity patient designations. Without an effective solution, vulnerable populations remain at higher risk, while ED operations become increasingly strained.

Join leaders from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital as they unveil research proving how an AI-driven triage tool enhances both equity and efficiency. Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine AI, their findings reveal:

  • Greater accuracy in high-severity illness detection, especially for marginalized groups,
  • Safe reclassification of 18.7% of mid-acuity patients, ensuring better resource allocation,
  • 33% reduction in time to initial care, improving overall ED efficiency, and
  • 3% decrease in time-to-care (median 58minutes) for critically ill patients

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, March 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webcast: Experience Perspective 2025: Key Insights and trends for the year ahead, April 10

March 24, 2025

Webcast:  Experience Perspective 2025: Key Insights and trends for the year ahead, April 10

Be the first to access the insights and trends informing the future of healthcare. Join the authors of the 2025 Experience Perspective for a Live webcast on April 10 as they dive into key strategies and trends based on their extensive research and insights from millions of consumers, patients, and healthcare leaders with a special focus on:

  • Building trust
  • Addressing generational differences
  • Evolving to meet consumer demands both now and in the future.

Register today and don’t miss your opportunity to gain valuable knowledge to make the most informed decisions for 2025 and beyond.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.

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Article: The Biggest Lessons of the Last 12 months, according to 36 C-suite Execs

March 24, 2025

Article: The Biggest Lessons of the Last 12 months, according to 36 C-suite Execs

Becker’s asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their biggest lesson from the past year.

Question: What is the biggest lesson you learned in the last year, and why?

  • Craig Albanese, MD, MBA. CEO of Duke University Health System:

Innovation isn’t just about adopting new technology – it’s about transforming the way we think AND ultimately how we do our work in servitude to those who come to us for hope, health and healing. At Duke Health, we’re focused on embracing and integrating AI, digital health, and new care models to improve patient outcomes and team member experience. Change is constant in healthcare, and a commitment to purposeful innovation, paired with a growth mindset, keeps us ahead in delivering our missions of world-class clinical care, research, education, and community health.

  • Erik Wexler. CEO of Providence (Rendon, Wash.):

What’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned over the last year? When leaders get promoted from within, it’s easy to assume you know everything there is to know about the organization. Last year, as I was preparing for my new role at Providence, I didn’t want to make any assumptions. Instead, I wanted to approach it with curiosity and hear directly from our caregivers, medical staff, leaders, and board members in the field. Over the course of three months, I met with more than 4,000 people from across our seven states, from medical staff members and frontline caregivers to board members and administrators. It gave me valuable perspective and helped populate our new strategic plan for 2030. I am better prepared now as CEO, and as I have during my leadership journey, I will continue to dialogue and engage with those who bring our mission to life.

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Article: Health System C-Suites Ready to Play Offense

March 24, 2025

Article: Health System C-Suites Ready to Play Offense

Hospital margins remain tight and while they’re growing, around 37% of hospitals are still losing money, according to Kaufman Hall.

The persistent financial challenges have sparked a variety of initiatives in the last few years to find cost savings and efficiencies while eliminating waste and adding revenue streams. Health systems have been playing defense, reacting to economic challenges, inflation, staffing shortages and new regulations in real time. For some health systems, that has meant workforce reductions, cutting services, severing ties with insurers and consolidation.

Now, it’s time to play offense.

“The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the past year is that financial strength and strategic growth start with empathy and open-minded leadership,” said Sham Firdausi, CFO of ScionHealth – Watertown Regional in Louisville, Ky. “Playing defense isn’t sustainable and cost-cutting alone won’t secure our future. Instead, we’ve focused on thoughtful investments that improve patient care, support our workforce and drive long-term stability.”

ScionHealth is leveraging technology to ease staff burdens and restructuring service lines to meet the needs of their community instead of emphasizing cuts. Mr. Firdausi said every decision his team makes must have clinical and financial value. He engages physicians and frontline staff as well as financial leaders in decision-making to forge strategic alignment and move from strategy to execution.

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Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP)

March 21, 2025

Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP)

The Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP) is a federally-funded initiative that offers comprehensive technical assistance to rural hospitals to address financial and operational challenges and maintain essential health services for their communities.

Targeted Technical Assistance Program Sequence:

  • Assess
    • Comprehensive financial and operational assessments
  • Plan
    • Evidence-based planning to identify & prioritize strategies for financial sustainability and growth
  • Implement
    • One-on-one tailored technical assistance with consultants and subject-matter experts
  • Monitor and Evaluate
    • Monitoring, evaluation, and modification of implemented strategy to ensure optimal outcomes

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Rural Hospital Stabilization Program

March 21, 2025

Rural Hospital Stabilization Program

The Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.

RHSP offers assistance to rural hospitals, at no cost to them to help them improve their financial stability by enhancing or expanding health care services that meet community needs. This may include everything from pulmonary rehabilitation to outpatient behavioral health services to expanded primary care and keep care close to home.

The Center’s subject matter experts and a team of nationally recognized consultants familiar with rural hospitals provide:

  • Comprehensive financial and operational assessments,
  • Education,
  • One-on-one coaching,
  • Peer-to-peer sharing, and
  • Other forms of customized assistance.

Hospitals participating in the cohort style program work to identify clinical areas where the expansion or addition of services would help to ensure that care is available locally, and develop those service lines to bolster patient volume, optimize service utilization and improve cash flow.

Hospitals that meet program expectations and are selected for participation may receive financial support for operating and equipment costs for service line development and a Community Engagement Champion.

Benefits of Participation:

  • Improve financial position and increase operational efficiencies
  • Enhance stability and sustain access to care,
  • Grow services to increase patient volume,
  • Align service to community needs,
  • Bolster revenue and reduce bypass,
  • Enhance community perception of the hospital.

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HRSA National Health Service Corps/SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Training

March 21, 2025

HRSA National Health Service Corps/SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Training

The National Health Service Corps is partnering with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to increase the number of clinicians trained to prescribe buprenorphine, and other medications as part of a wholistic treatment plan for opioid use disorders in high-need communities.

SAMHSA’s Provider Clinical Support System-Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (PCSS-MOUD) offers the most effective, evidence-based clinical practices

  • preventing,
  • identifying,
  • and treating opioid-use disorder.

PCSS-MOUD provides free 8-hour MOUD training, year-round.

Are Your eligible for the training?

You are eligible for the free 8-hour MOUD Training if you have an active Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number to dispense controlled substances and are one of the following:

  • Physician (Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO),
  • Nurse practitioner (NP),
  • Physician assistant (PA),
  • Certified nurse midwives (CNM),
  • Certified registered nurse anesthetics (CRNA), or
  • Medical student
  • Medical students may complete the training but will not be eligible for a DEA number until they are fully licensed.

The training is eight hours and can be taken in-person or online. The training can also be split into more than one session.

I already completed X-waiver training:

  • If you have completed training for the DATA Waiver, also know as the X-waiver, you have satisfied this training requirement.
  • This training also satisfies the June 2023 mandate for health professionals who are registering or renewing a DEA license.
  • Visit the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Medication Assisted Treatment page to learn more about the training and how to obtain your DEA number

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HRSA Needs Rural Reviewers for Grant Applications

March 21, 2025

HRSA Needs Rural Reviewers for Grant Applications

Are you an expert in certain subjects related to health care? If so, you may be able to help the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) review grant applications.

What is a grant application reviewer?

  • Professionals who use their health care knowledge and experience to evaluate grant applications.
    • Their feedback is part of HRSA’s process in deciding who receives grant awards.

Expectations:

  • Get trained on how to evaluate applications and use HRSA’s online portal – the Application Review Module (ARM),
  • Review applications using published evaluation criteria,
  • Provide scores and comments in the ARM, and
  • Discuss scores and evaluation with other reviewers on your panel.

How to Become a Grant Reviewer:

  • If you have experience in health care, register via HRSA’s Reviewer Recruitment Module (RRM).
  • HRSA is looking for people who are experts in these areas:
    • Behavioral health
    • Health workforce training
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Maternal and child health
    • Primary care delivery
    • Rural health
    • Health equity
  • HRSA also wants reviewers who have:
    • Lived experience, such as:
      • A member of an underserved community,
      • Having a disability or health condition.
    • Expertise in social determinants of health,
    • Experience working with underserved communities, and
    • Familiarity with social, cultural, or health care issues of people in rural areas, migrants, or Native Americans.

Does a grant reviewer get paid?

  • HRSA compensates nonfederal reviewers

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Informational Webinar on NASHP Maternity Care Deserts Policy Academy, March 25

March 21, 2025

Informational Webinar on NASHP Maternity Care Deserts Policy Academy, March 25

With support from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) will provide an overview and answer questions about the NASHP policy academy, Advancing State Strategies to Address Maternity Care Deserts.

Teams of state health officials

  • public health,
  • Medicaid,
  • behavioral health,
  • provider groups, and
  • others

will receive technical assistance to support and advance innovative state-level policy initiatives that address the growth of maternity care deserts and improve access to maternal and child health care.

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