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Accountable Care
By Bill Siwicki | 05:30 pm | July 18, 2018
Health system uses communications platform to go from a 65 percent patients seen rate for case managers to 91 percent – with a reduced number of FTEs, official says.
IT Infrastructure
By Jessica Davis | 01:22 pm | July 18, 2018
Employees fell victim to a targeted phishing campaign, which may have exposed sensitive data for some patients, including Social Security numbers and health insurance information.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 11:07 am | July 18, 2018
Two employee email accounts were breached by phishing attacks, which potentially gave hackers access to a trove of highly sensitive data that varied by patient.
Electronic Health Records
By Bernie Monegain | 09:56 am | July 18, 2018
Hospitals ignoring blockchain risk being left behind, IT firms say, and they share advice about getting work underway.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 04:56 pm | July 17, 2018
Announced Tuesday at Microsoft Inspire, the ‘bring your own keys’ tool lets healthcare organizations create, update and revoke encryption keys on demand.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 12:52 pm | July 17, 2018
Hackers breached one of the largest clinical laboratories over the weekend, forcing a shutdown of the network to contain the cyberattack.
Data Warehousing
By Jessica Davis | 05:21 pm | July 13, 2018
A breach in financial services, the second most expensive sector, costs only half of what hospitals wind up spending.
Privacy & Security
By Mitchell Parker | 09:52 am | July 13, 2018
The final in a four-part series maps out ways to get radio frequency identification tools right and what health org’s should expect to do, even when vendors claim “no IT involvement.”
IT Infrastructure
By Jessica Davis | 04:07 pm | July 12, 2018
The newest variant of the prolific ransomware forms this year has been updated to include a stolen National Security Agency exploit.
Revenue Cycle
By Bill Siwicki | 11:21 am | July 12, 2018
Healthcare executives need to track these three key technology advancements to keep pace with coming changes.