Kat Jercich
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said it received more than 700 predictions from stakeholders about healthcare outcomes in 2030.
Employees hired through the system will join what the agency is calling the Cybersecurity Service, "the nation's pre-eminent federal cybersecurity team."
All of the hospitality chain's U.S. staff enrolled in a corporate health plan will have access to Amazon's app-based medical services next year, reported Reuters.
2021 Year in Review
More than 40 million patient records have been compromised this past year by incidents reported to the federal government in 2021.
But a recent study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that clinicians are still concerned about hurdles to telehealth implementation.
H-ISAC Chief Security Officer Errol Weiss warns that individuals working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are of "high interest" to adversaries. He'll discuss more at the upcoming HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.
Although some schedulers reported positive experiences, the Office of Inspector General found a host of problems with the system's implementation.
Several outlets had pointed to Dr. Robert Califf, who also led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2016, as the likely candidate prior to the official announcement.
The thousands of potentially affected healthcare devices include anesthesia machines and patient monitors, according to researchers.
Tom Skelton, who has led the company since 2014, said he would be staying on through the end of next year and assisting in the search for his replacement.