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Ransomware and denial-of-service attacks make headlines when it comes to hospital cybersecurity, but internal cultural and technological vulnerabilities are often more to blame for an ongoing cycle of healthcare data breaches.
The HIMSS Thailand National Digital Healthcare Workforce Development Initiative (WDI) was officially launched on the opening day of the HIMSS AsiaPac 2019 conference on October 7 in Bangkok, Thailand.
An interview with Joe Gibson, director of epidemiology at the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis.
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Members are given financial and other rewards for participating.
At the Connected Health Conference in Boston next week, the patient advocacy group celebrates a decade spent changing the conversation about how technology-enabled care is delivered.
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The North Carolina health system expects to see a decrease in emergency department utilization and readmission rates.
The health system, which had been forced to shift operations into manual mode, using paper copies in place of digital records, purchased a decryption key from the hackers for an undisclosed sum.
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The new offering, which includes patient matching, aggregation, normalization, deduplication and more, can help health systems launch more effective AI and machine learning projects, the company says.
Administrative complexity accounted for the most waste, estimated at $256.6 billion, and pricing failure was a close second.
The health system used a new data management platform to combine 15 different provider databases, better enabling patients to schedule appointments online and through a new Patient Engagement Center.