News You Can Use: End August 2025

August News You Can Use Healthcare: Where Even Babies Get Spam
Calls Topics includes: Epic’s annual UGM revealed quirky issues
like newborns being assigned cell numbers; Awkward misdirected
health updates, but fixes in the works; Epic’s Cosmos database of
300M records powers AI predictions - excitement and privacy
concerns for misuse by insurers; Healthcare costs are spiking with
insurance premiums rising during open enrollment leaving patients
with painful financial tradeoffs. Calls are growing in Washington
for better health data sharing to improve patient care and reduce
inefficiencies; A 23-year-old SIM jacker was sentenced to 10 years,
a reminder that misuse of digital data carries real consequences.
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