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Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.

By Andrea Fox | 02:10 pm | May 17, 2023
The exploitation of a flaw in unpatched backup and replication software could result in the compromise of healthcare network infrastructure, data theft and ransomware deployment. 
By Andrea Fox | 12:21 pm | May 17, 2023
The modified deal now includes much bigger monetary credits to VA if the company doesn’t meet key performance accountability metrics, and resets the partnership to five one-year terms. 
By Andrea Fox | 12:07 pm | May 16, 2023
The national pharmacy network, which serves long-term care, senior living and behavioral health organizations, notified patients and families that an unknown third party accessed PHI and PII in March.
By Andrea Fox | 08:58 am | May 16, 2023
The new functionalities allow customers to integrate existing processing pipelines so they can quickly build applications and scale up robust genomic analyses and secondary analyses. 
By Andrea Fox | 11:45 am | May 15, 2023
Working with Telemetrix and Remote Care Partners, the Atlanta health system is enabling cloud-based data exchange between home patient monitoring devices and its electronic health records.
By Andrea Fox | 05:21 pm | May 12, 2023
QR codes designed to improve data transfer can entice healthcare data breaches. Sharat Potharaju of Beaconstac shares advice on how to safely bolster data security while providing patients the ease of mobile access.
By Andrea Fox | 11:51 am | May 12, 2023
Femtech developer Aspira Women's Health signs with Dana Farber to license a biomarker-based ovarian cancer diagnostic, a Madrona Venture Labs spin-out adds GPT-enabled virtual agents to billing automation and Dave, an LLM oncology tool, is born.
By Andrea Fox | 11:47 am | May 11, 2023
The 17-step road map is meant to help sort out shared healthcare cyber hygiene responsibilities, giving policymakers and providers direction toward protecting patient safety in the face of cyber threats.
By Andrea Fox | 12:50 pm | May 10, 2023
The ATA applauded the extension through Nov. 11. Working with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the DEA has also offered a one-year grace period for doctor-patient telemedicine relationships established before that date.
By Andrea Fox | 11:00 am | May 10, 2023
The complaint alleges the EHR provider failed to follow guidelines for protecting data after the company said compromised credentials enabled unauthorized access to the confidential information of more than 1 million people.