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The reach of the cyberattack is a looming crisis for providers' financial stability, particularly in rural areas, and could soon impact patient care, said Ted Okon of the Community Oncology Alliance.
The integration with the Converge telehealth platform could reduce clinician burnout by extending access to artificial intelligence voice technology to help manage care for 90 million people across 55 health plans.
The healthcare marketplace says its new Integration Partner Program for EHRs and PM vendors is focused on helping all healthcare specialties grow.
By adding the content-as-a-service platform and other evidence-based patient education tools to its Ignite portfolio, WebMD will support 650+ healthcare organizations – including more than 50% of U.S. hospitals and several major payers, the company said.
Deploying a HIPAA-compliant approach to endpoint devices was part of the Alliance Clinical Network's larger IT strategy, explains Michael Trzcinski, its vice president of IT, cybersecurity and facility operations, ahead of his presentation.
Federal agencies confirm, in the wake of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, that healthcare organizations have been targeted since the DOJ announced the seizure of the cyberterror gang's infrastructure in December.
Developed over eighteen months by the Cybersecurity Working Group and government partners, the plan is a five-year health industry roadmap for addressing frequent and sophisticated cyber incidents aimed at the sector.
The watchdog agency has reached an agreement with a behavioral health practice for potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations leading up to and at the time of the 2019 breach.
"More organizations will be compromised," said the info sharing group as it urged updates to ScreenConnect software. The AHA said health systems should assess the effects of staying disconnected from nonimpacted Optum and United Health network services.
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