Quality and Safety
Experts at the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday said that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility and should be treated as such.
The breach lasted for more than a year and resulted in the disclosure of individuals' names, Social Security numbers and other protected health information.
The Mission Control team has created 1,423 additional days to care for more patients, expedited treatment for 142 critical care patients, maintained a 10% reduction in bed request turnaround times and enabled 561 patients to leave the hospital more quickly.
The agency plans to take a "multi-pronged approach" to advancing oversight of machine learning-enabled devices – with an eye toward ensuring patient safety, algorithm transparency and real-world results.
The Vermont health system said that it would modify the second and third phases of its EHR go-live, partially in response to the obstacles levied by the attack this past fall.
Many of the top 10 incidents logged by HHS Office for Civil Rights involved ransomware, but a few stemmed from device theft or improper record disposal.
Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, Epic, Greenway Health, Meditech and NextGen offer an up-to-the-minute look at how they’re enabling complex immunization recordkeeping for their health system customers.
Healthvana CEO Ramin Bastani describes how his company is working with labs, providers and public health organizations to deliver test results with security, efficiency and empathy.
The global consortium for eHealth interoperability and the digital health indicators are just two success stories that HIMSS has introduced in 2020 with the aim of improving healthcare, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.
Discovered by CyberMDX, the flaw, MDhex-Ray, could allow remote exploits that would compromise connected radiology devices – enabling access to and potential manipulation of protected health data.