Data Warehousing

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may follow through on threats to revoke federal Medicare funding for hospitals that don't meet COVID-19 patient data requirements, reported NPR this week.

As many as 80% of CIOs and CISOs polled for a new report say they've experienced a breach originating with a third-party vendor in the past year, while another survey shows 44% of hospitals and health systems fail to meet basic NIST CSF protocols.

The data is said to include patient information release forms, driver's license copies and Social Security numbers, as first reported by BleepingComputer.

A German woman died after Düsseldorf University Clinic's servers were encrypted, which necessitated that she be relocated to a hospital 20 miles away.

Cyber crooks used social engineering and exploited authentication protocols in an attempt to divert payments from its Financial Services Center.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center sees "opportunities to leverage a broadly defined set of telehealth tools to reduce healthcare disparities post-pandemic."

Using the Mount Sinai De-Identified COVID-19 database, researchers examined information from more than 52,000 unique patients who sought care between March and May.

Stakeholders stressed the importance of a patient-identification strategy in an ONC working session Monday.

Last year, the organizations embarked on a decade-long partnership to advance the health system's AI and ML innovations. Then the novel coronavirus began to spread.

A case report published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows how algorithms can be used to augment the contact-tracing process for COVID-19 patients.