Quality and Safety

Federal agencies noted that state-sponsored bad actors have targeted a variety of critical infrastructure organizations, including those in the healthcare industry. 

Among the new changes for the Interoperability Standards Advisory: HL7-enabled help for CDC COVID-19 reporting, and new standards and implementation specs for labs, e-prescribing and public health.

Houston Methodist had been planning to implement a VICU for several years, Chief Innovation Officer Roberta Schwartz explains in a preview of her upcoming HIMSS22 session – but the pandemic led the health system to speed up the process.

Broward Health announced that an intruder had accessed its network through the office of a third-party medical provider.

Patient and provider experiences have to be top-of-mind in the year ahead, with special attention to stressed hospital workers and underserved populations, healthcare vendor leaders say.

CompuGroup Medical worked to get internal systems back online after a ransomware attack, while healthcare providers in West Virginia and Texas notified hundreds of thousands of individuals about information breaches.

As of Wednesday, repeated calls to Capital Region Medical Center get a busy signal and its website displays an error message.

A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outlined several strategies to reduce medical errors.

A CyberScoop report found that Google, Facebook and HubSpot were able to access some user data through Doxy.me's virtual waiting room, although no patient health information was compromised.

Researchers found that a model used to distinguish breast cancer cases could be fooled by falsified misleading images.