Jeff Lagasse
Machine learning, AI, telemedicine and other technologies will pose data security risks, says Dr. J…
While the shift is necessary, the transition period will likely see hackers targeting newly vulnerable information, said Halamka.
Risk can have a profound impact on the financial health of any organization, where sensitive information is often hosted on outside servers.
Healthcare data breaches will cost industry $4 billion by year's end, and 2020 is poised to be worse
Providers continue to be the most targeted organizations for industry cybersecurity breaches, with nearly 4 out of 5 breaches.
Strategic Planning
Wasteful spending is an increasingly thorny problem in healthcare, especially with the industry comprising an ever-larger portion of GDP.
Strategic Planning
Financial incentives plus information decrease patient preference for potentially wasteful diagnost…
Discussing benefits and risks of low-value diagnostic testing via head CT scan with patients can reduce the prevalence of such testing.
Strategic Planning
Despite this cost increase, 95% of employers are very confident their organization will continue to sponsor healthcare benefits to active employees.
Strategic Planning
The FDA is also approving greater numbers of complex generic drugs, which are more difficult to replicate and traditionally lack competition.
Strategic Planning
A tiny fraction of healthcare executives, 5%, said clinical integration is their supply chain't top priority.
Strategy
On average, physician-led ACOs produced almost 7 times the amount of Medicare savings per beneficiary than hospital-led ACOs.
Strategic Planning
The anticipated savings would increase in a scenario in which biosimilars made up a larger portion of the total market share.