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COVID-19 has presented a number of unique challenges to the healthcare sector over the past year. Healthcare providers have been placed on the frontline and tasked with treating patients, educating the population, and distributing vaccines. With the industry’s attention and resources focused squarely on the pandemic, however, new threats to the healthcare system have emerged.
In the last year, healthcare providers and institutions have increasingly found themselves the target of cybersecurity attacks. A recent report issued by Check Point Software Technologies found that there has been a 45% increase in cyberattacks targeting healthcare providers globally since November 2020. It is estimated that in 2020 alone, 26 million patient records were exposed to unauthorized parties, the overwhelming majority of which were the result of healthcare cyberattacks.
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Saranac Lake Middle School social studies teacher Dwight Stevenson is among the first group of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at a state Department of Health-run vaccine clinic in Plattsburgh on Monday, Jan. 18.
(Photo provided by Dwight Stevenson) PLATTSBURGH A North Country Chamber of Commerce webinar gathered regional healthcare professionals Wednesday morning and the message was clear: Get the COVID vaccine ASAP. University of Vermont Health Network, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Vice President of Population Health and Information Services Dr. Wouter Rietsema was one of five panelists and called the available COVID vaccines “miraculous.” “We have vaccines that prevent 95% of a disease that’s unheard of in vaccinations,” Rietsema said, noting that a “good” flu vaccine was closer to the 50% range.
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Nonprofit MVP Health Care, a health plan based in Vermont and New York, and the University of Vermont Health Network are teaming up to launch a joint Medicare Advantage plan, the organizations announced this week.
The entities are currently focused on adhering to regulatory requirements, and because of that offered few details about the benefit design. But a tentative start date has been announced: January 1, 2022.
MVP and UVM plan to announce further details of their Medicare Advantage insurance plan during this fall s annual enrollment period.
WHAT S THE IMPACT?
Medicare Advantage plans can offer coverage for services that original Medicare does not, such as vision, hearing, dental and wellbeing benefits. These plans are rapidly growing in popularity, with enrollment in Medicare Advantage doubling over the past decade, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Vermont Business Magazine As part of the State of Vermont’s vaccination efforts, The Vermont National Guard is administering 1000 doses of the one dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine at the Central Vermont Medical Center’s Vaccine Hub located in the former JCPenney in Berlin Mall on Sunday April 11.
The by-appointment-only event will run from 8am to 8pm, and is already completely booked.
“Our pandemic response has been grounded in collaboration,” said CVMC President and COO Anna Tempesta Noonan. “We are very pleased that the State of Vermont and our National Guard will make use of our space at CVMC’s Vaccine Hub at the Berlin Mall on Sunday for vaccinations”
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BENNINGTON â Following a change in state restrictions, patients at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, part of the Southwestern Vermont Health Care network, are now permitted to welcome a visitor â so long as that visitor has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can prove it.
âVaccination has made visiting hospitalized patients much safer for everyone, including our staff, other visitors, and patients,â Trey Dobson, MD, SVMCâs chief medical officer, said in a news release. âA loved one can play an important role in a patientâs wellbeing and recovery, and we are pleased to be able to safely welcome one vaccinated visitor per patient back to SVMC.â