The Necessity of Payer Gateway Connection Redundancy
A cyberattack caused an extensive outage for Change Healthcare, a vital clearinghouse for US medical claims, in February 2024. With the ability to handle over half of all medical claims and perform 15 billion healthcare transactions a year, its disruption had a significant effect on the healthcare ecosystem, impacting over 67,000 pharmacies and 900,000 physicians nationally with regard to billing.
As AI grows and develops, many countries have focused on how they should regulate its growth and use. AI offers a ton of potential for great benefits and world-changing advances, but it also carries some real risks. It’s in our best interests that governments and companies consider policies that will prevent AI from doing harm and limit what bad faith actors can do to use AI in a negative way.
The team at AAA State of Play celebrated all things outdoor recreation by collecting data on what equipment Americans are investing in. Outdoor activities are more popular than ever with Americans spending a record amount of money on it in 2022. The team’s graphics show us which activities are most popular and what equipment they’re willing to spend the most on.
The U.S. is a popular destination for boaters with its pristine lakes, winding rivers, and miles of beautiful coastline. But which state is the boater’s dream? The team at SIYachts set out to answer that question. They considered the many factors boaters consider when deciding to buy a boat, when to set sail, and where to travel to for the best boating. Their ranking represents an average score of these many factors that include cost, amount of coastline and wet areas, number of marinas, number of boats owned in the state, hurricane risk, and average wind speed.
As an app that creates study tools, Brainscape has a particular interest in changes in attention span over time. Their tools are meant to help people improve their attention spans and the data collected shows that it worked! It’s no secret that the general public’s attention span has taken a sharp turn for the worse. The statistics here show the shrinking number of minutes, even seconds people can hold their attention on a given subject. But the company found that people who use their app are using it for longer and longer stretches of time, suggesting that their attention is improving.
The pharmaceutical market is one of the largest industries in the United States. Looking at this infographic from NY Requirements can give us a lot more insight into which drugs are used most often, as well as which illnesses affect us the most. From the graph, we can infer that Americans are at high risk from heart disease. Cardiovascular medications are prescribed more than any other category, claiming many spots all over the list. Here are the top prescribed medications:
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