Mike Miliard
In what looks like it might be becoming a trend, another health plan has been targeted with a "sophisticated cyberattack," with hackers gaining access to the financial and medical information of 11 million members.
Billed as a "one-of-a-kind" new partnership between academic heavyweights, UPMC, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have joined forces to drive big innovations in healthcare analytics.
CIOs need staff; veterans need jobs. A win-win? At HIMSS15, Jaime Parent, associate CIO at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, will lay out the steps hospitals can take to harness the considerable talents of returning service members.
Many people think of clinical decision support in terms of technology. But it's not just about computers, says Jerome Osheroff, MD. "It's all about people, process and technology -- in that order of importance."
"CMS is ready for ICD-10," said outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner this week, pointing to 660 providers and billing companies that submitted some 15,000 test claims.
For six years, Healthcare IT News has called on our readers to shine a bright light on the people in this industry who are making a difference. It's time to cast a ballot for the 2015 H.I.T. Men & Women Awards.
Mayo Clinic is publishing commercialized analytics tools on the Apervita platform, offering other healthcare organizations the chance to leverage its clinical knowledge.
Medicare eligible professionals now have until 11:59 p.m. ET on March 20, 2015, to attest to meaningful use for the 2014 reporting year.
Mobile apps equipped with clinical decision support lead to much higher diagnosis rates than apps that merely record data from a patient exam, a study from Columbia University School of Nursing shows.
The number of patients affected by medical identity theft increased nearly 22 percent over the past year, according to a new report from the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance -- an increase of nearly half a million victims since 2013.