Health care news from around the web: June 24 – 28, 2024

How health care organizations can fend off cyberthreats 

Small health care organizations increasingly are attractive targets for cybersecurity breaches but there are ways they can protect themselves. 

Providers, I-SNPs primed and ‘pleading’ for greater role in value-based care 

The unrelenting push toward value-based care should compel skilled nursing providers to grab the reins, even after years of regulators failing to invite them more fully into the process. 

Telehealth use declined across groups in 2022: survey 

Telemedicine utilization among adults dipped in 2022, falling from 37% in 2021 to just over 30%. 

Payer innovation council weighs improvements to provider data management experience 

An innovation council brought together some of the nation’s largest health plans to raise issues and look for ways to improve complex processes, including credentialing and provider data management.