Quality and Safety

Staff members are looking to make specialist visits more accessible, which could further improve patient satisfaction and lead to a faster and streamlined clinical process that may shorten length of stay and improve clinical outcome.

The agency said it had identified at least 16 incidents over the last year aimed at healthcare and first-responder systems.

While the organization's website is now accessible, along with some "read-only" medical records, its patient portal is still down.

Five analytics companies – Aetion, Flatiron Health, IQVIA, Syapse and Tempus – are joining to advance use of data derived from EHRs, claims and other sources outside of clinical trials.

The initiative, developed in partnership with Manatt Health, emphasizes that the benefits of digitally enabled services go beyond dollars and cents.

The average throughput time for the health center's chemotherapy infusion center fell 104 minutes, a nearly 49% decrease.

The cyber risk platform Black Kite released a new report this week finding that one in 10 global pharmaceutical manufacturers are at a high risk of suffering a ransomware attack.

Although the agency did not explicitly refer to any specific brand of electronics, its news release linked to several articles about magnets in the iPhone 12.

Meanwhile, Ireland's national health service is continuing to grapple with outages of its own following a ransomware incident. 

At least five healthcare providers were affected by the incident, which occurred in February.