March 18, 2025 | Volume XIV | Issue 11

OrganOx, ProCure partner to expand access to donor liver-preserving tech

Fierce Healthcare reports:


OrganOx, maker of a device to preserve liver donations, has teamed up with ProCure On-Demand, an organ recovery services provider. 


The partnership aims to improve the recovery and assessment of donor livers for transplantation by leveraging OrganOx’s normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) technology and ProCure’s solutions. ProCure offers surgical, preservation and logistics services to transplant centers and organ procurement organizations.


“ProCure has built a highly talented and deeply tenured team of abdominal surgeons and perfusionists that complement [our device],” stated Craig Marshall, CEO of...

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HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

The Florida Healthcare Law Firm


The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule is a critical component of healthcare compliance in the United States, mandating that covered entities and their business associates promptly notify affected individuals, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and, in certain cases, the media, following a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI). Understanding and adhering to this rule is essential for maintaining patient trust and avoiding substantial penalties.


Enacted as part of the HITECH Act in 2009, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires covered entities—such as healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses—and their business associates to provide notification following a breach of unsecured PHI. Unsecured PHI refers to information that has not been rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals through methods like encryption or destruction.


A breach is generally defined as the acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of PHI in a manner not permitted...

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Mount Sinai team creates AI algorithm to detect sleep disorder

Healthcare IT News reports:


REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, is a condition that causes abnormal movements or brief repeated twitching during sleep, and occasional episodes of dream enactment.


RBD affects more than one million Americans and is almost always an early sign of Parkinson's or dementia.

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Grab the tissues, allergy season is in full swing. Here's what you can do to make it less miserable

News4 JAX



Early spring may sound nice, but that means seasonal allergies come sooner and last longer. Irram Hamdani, a pulmonologist at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital, said that from February to May, those in Northeast Florida may be uncomfortable with allergies.

Watch the video HERE.

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