The platform, which was not named, is said to be public-facing and not approved for use with healthcare data. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center said it notified those impacted and retrained staff after discovering the incident in September.

Herbert Kimble, 60, was also ordered to pay nearly $400 million in restitution and forfeitures. The fraud, which involved sending kickbacks to telemedicine firms and billing Medicare for medical equipment, is one of the largest in history. 

Companion bills in the state legislature would bar artificial intelligence apps from providing services of human professionals in schools.

Aetna is the latest to sue, pointing to re-used metrics that were discarded in a court victory by Clover Health. CMS is appealing that decision.

The merger between Hackensack Meridian Health and Hunterdon Health has many conditions, including a $200 million investment in facility upgrades. The deal will be finalized once it receives a rubber stamp from regulators.

Independence Blue Cross, the largest medical insurance provider in the Philadelphia area, does not admit to wrongdoing. It was accused in a lawsuit backed by the U.S. Department of Justice of misrepresenting the severity of patient illnesses to juice risk-adjusted Medicare payments.

The incident happened in 2019, when a third-party debt collector used by the diagnostics company had a hacker inside its network for over 8 months. In total, the incident exposed records from 27.5 million patients to hackers.

Medtronic identified an issue with its CareLink SmartSync device manager providing inaccurate longevity estimates for certain leadless pacemakers. Customers can download a software update to resolve the issue going forward.

The Colorado Springs-based imaging group and its board have agreed to settle the 1,000-person class-action challenge, days before the trial was slated to begin.