Jessica Davis
Compliance
The Arizona health system is cooperating with the investigation but expects to receive negative findings and a potential fine.
Compliance
By May 25, U.S. providers caring for EU patients will need to brush up on consent forms, data sharing and privacy monitoring because the General Data Protection Regulation is tougher than HIPAA.
Accountable Care
The agency named University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Chief Innovation Officer Rasu Shrestha to lead work mapping the electronic medical record to the FHIR APIs and create common data standards through industry partnerships.
Privacy & Security
Hackers broke into four employee email accounts of the Iowa provider, allowing access to a wide range of sensitive data.
Privacy & Security
From Google to NIH, the message was clear at the annual health IT conference: Hospitals need to make cybersecurity a budget priority and tackle security as a team.
Electronic Health Records
The embattled VA secretary told a Congressional committee that the agency is working closely with the DoD to learn lessons for its own Cerner overhaul.
Accountable Care
Diagnostic errors can lead to serious consequences, such as care gaps and unnecessary procedures, while opioid safety should be prioritized due to the seriousness of its side effects.
Privacy & Security
The threat management and intelligence vendor will provide the infrastructure and tools to support healthcare members in sharing and collaborating threat data through the NH-ISAC.
Privacy & Security
An internal scan by the St. Louis-based health system found a misconfigured server could be easily accessed without authentication.
Compliance
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of scandal-ridden startup Theranos, with “massive fraud.