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83 CIO / HEALTH IT AT&T to launch smartwatch for remote patient monitoring By Jackie Drees A T&T released details on its new smartwatch, OnePulse, designed with telehealth and re- mote patient monitoring capabilities. Five things to know: 1. OnePulse transmits the user's health data to the cloud, allowing clinicians, patients and caregivers access to monitor user status. 2. The smartwatch is also designed with bluetooth so it can connect to other medical devices, such as a blood pressure cuff, glucometer and weight scale. 3. Additional features on the smartwatch include 24/7 monitoring with near real-time alerts for fam- ily and physicians, medication reminders and auto prescription refills, fully encrypted medical records that can be accessed via cloud-based dashboard and an open application programming interface to allow connection to any EHR platform. 4. OnePulse smartwatch is expected to be available for purchase by healthcare providers in March. 5. The OnePulse smartwatch was developed through AT&T's collaboration with OneLife Tech- nologies, a mobile medical software and data collection company. n UConn Health notifies up to 326,000 patients of data breach By Mackenzie Garrity F armington-based University of Connecticut Health sent let- ters to up to 326,000 patients notifying them of a recent data security incident. A third party illegally gain access to several employee email ac- counts. As many as 326,000 patients were potentially affected by the attack, according to local news station WFSB. UConn Health discovered the email accounts were attacked on Dec. 24, 2018. The email accounts contained names, dates of birth, addresses and limited medical information, such as billing and appointment information. Of the patients affected, 1,500 also have their Social Security number at risk. The security incident had no impact on computer networks or EHRs. The health system is unaware of any fraud or identity theft as a result of the data breach. However, UConn Health is offering identity theft protection to patients whose Social Security num- bers may have been affected. UConn Health has notified local law enforcement and contact- ed a forensic security firm to investigate the incident and con- duct a comprehensive search for any personal information in the affected email accounts. "We take our responsibility to safeguard personal information seriously and apologize for any inconvenience or concern this incident might have," the notice stated. "We have taken and will continue to take steps to health prevent something like this from happening again, including evaluating additional platforms and educating staff and reviewing technical controls." n Allscripts' revenue up 17% in 2018: 5 things to know By Jessica Kim Cohen A llscripts released earnings results for its 2018 fiscal year on Feb. 21, post- ing a 17 percent rise in revenue. Five things to know about the Chicago-based EHR vendor's financial performance: 1. Allscripts posted $1.75 billion in revenue for the year, up 17 percent from $1.5 billion in 2017. 2. Soware delivery, support and mainte- nance accounted for most of the company's revenue in 2018 at $1.13 billion, up 18 per- cent from 2017. Allscripts attributed its re- maining 2018 revenue ($621.7 million) to client services. 3. Allscripts posted $266.4 million in non- GAAP — or generally accepted accounting principles — operating income, up less than 1 percent from $266.2 million in 2017. 4. e company said its total principal debt outstanding was reduced to $696 mil- lion aer it sold its interests in Netsmart. Allscripts closed the sale of its stake in Netsmart, a developer of behavioral health, human services and post-acute care technol- ogies, in December 2018. 5. Allscripts expects its non-GAAP revenue for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year to be in the range of $430 million to $440 million. In 2018, the company posted $519 million in non-GAAP revenue for the first quarter. "We successfully sold our interests in Netsmart for a significant gain and believe we have positioned Allscripts with the most robust and diversified solutions portfolio in the industry," Allscripts CEO Paul M. Black said in a news release. "Looking ahead, we believe we will continue to benefit from or- ganic growth in the provider end markets as well as double-digit growth from our Ve- radigm platform, while our strong balance sheet provides us flexibility for balanced cap- ital deployment." Allscripts rebranded its payer and life sciences division under the name "Vera- digm" in late 2018. n