Bill Siwicki
Connected Health
Accenture finds 73 percent of healthcare execs say the Internet of Things is poised to upend industry, but only 49 percent think their organization’s leaders understand what it could mean.
Jeff Gordon & Sohn Precision Medicine Fund at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is funded by a $200,000 grant to combat cancer in children.
Cause of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center breach tied to misconfigured rsync backup that was managed by iHealth Innovations.
Barracuda survey finds the bulk of users are relying on third parties to safeguard their files.
Telemedicine, MACRA implementation and patient engagement round out the top priorities in a new study from Reaction’s Research Cloud.
THA’s cybersecurity awareness program hopes to better prepare hospitals to fend off hackers focused on healthcare.
The new software, now part of the health system’s $764 Epic EHR rollout, is expected to capture $142 million in added revenue annually.
And physicians, nurses, executives and other healthcare staff are all carrying devices that are easily lost or stolen.
Electronic Health Records
Lawmakers included enhanced requirements for reporting on the major EHR project in the 2017 Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
Governance, training and, yes, monitoring can go a long way to reducing a system’s risk, expert says.