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Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling looks at how health systems and hospitals will change because of the pandemic.
In another incident, a former employee in New York is accused of electronic health record snooping – potentially affecting more than 10,000 patients.
The Indiana Department of Health said this week that it was notifying almost 750,000 Hoosiers after a company "improperly accessed" the data from the state's COVID-19 online contact tracing survey.
The multi-stakeholder initiative will target healthcare access, affordability, quality and equity by engaging with health information exchanges and health improvement collaboratives.
Meanwhile, Ohio-based Memorial Health System struggles to get back online after a ransomware attack.
At Penn Medicine, integrated product teams – comprising data scientists, physicians and software engineers, among others – are helping improve AI and machine learning applications.
Blockholders released 2,460 OR hours in the first four months of 2021 – and overall OR utilization has increased by 5%.
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The NASA astronaut and microbiologist discusses tech's role in addressing the health risks of space exploration and shares the most gratifying moment in her career.
The consulting firm told Healthcare IT News that the incident had no impact on its operations or on its clients' systems.
The provider org has reported reductions across partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs for adolescents in severity of: suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and more.