Biden calls for improved critical infrastructure cybersecurity
President Joe Biden released a memo this week aimed at shoring up efforts to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for...
View ArticleNIST's Privacy Framework can help orgs find their 'sweet spot'
In January 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released Version 1.0 of its Privacy Framework: a voluntary tool aimed at helping organizations manage risk arising from their...
View ArticleUC San Diego Health phishing attack exposes SSNs, financial info
A phishing attack on University of California San Diego Health earlier this year gave hackers unauthorized access to some employee email accounts – leading to compromised patient, student and staff...
View ArticleMicrosoft requires COVID-19 vaccinations for in-person work
This week Microsoft announced that it would require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to return to work in person. The tech giant also said it would push its return to...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence can help predict the need for ventilators
The pandemic has put immense strain on ICUs, resulting in shortages of staff, beds, personal protective equipment and ventilators. It has also exposed the limitations of traditional predictive...
View ArticleHealthcare data breaches on the rise
An identity breach report from the risk protection services vendor Constella Intelligence found that the COVID-19 pandemic presented a variety of new ways for bad actors to take advantage of...
View ArticleHospitals lag other companies in cybersecurity risk ratings
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that hospitals with low cybersecurity ratings were more likely to experience a data breach. The...
View ArticleNCQA launches program to streamline quality reporting
The National Committee for Quality Assurance announced a program this week geared toward ensuring the validity of clinical data used for quality reporting and other initiatives. The Data Aggregator...
View ArticleUsing behavioral economics to boost pediatric adherence
Anxiety related to medical procedures can cause delays and nonadherence to protocols among pediatric patients, and for good reason. These procedures involve outsized equipment and unfamiliar...
View ArticleCybersecurity is a team effort – and so is keeping patients safe
LAS VEGAS – There's no question that COVID-19 has thrust the healthcare industry into a "new normal." Although many of the innovations in the pandemic era have been for the better, leaders at the...
View ArticleJohn Halamka on the 4 big challenges to AI adoption in healthcare
The promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare delivery is bright – but significant challenges around bias, equity, and information development and delivery still need to be...
View ArticleHow empowered patients make for better health outcomes
Trends in personalized medicine and participatory care are leading to new relationships between physicians and their patients, while reams of digital data, often produced by the patients themselves,...
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Measurement-based care IT helps Inova Kellar Center improve patient outcomes
Inova Kellar Center (IKC) is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider based in Virginia that provides programs and services for children, adolescents and their families.IKC Inova Health System has...
View ArticleAccenture reportedly faced $50M ransomware demand
The consulting firm Accenture is reported to have faced $50 million in ransom following an attack this past month, according to cyber risk intelligence companies.Researchers from the cyber intelligence...
View ArticleAstronaut Kate Rubins shares health IT lessons learned from space
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Predictive operations help University Hospitals boost revenue with bigger...
Cleveland-based University Hospitals Health System is a private, not-for-profit academic health system with 150 inpatient and outpatient locations throughout northeast Ohio. It provides care to more...
View ArticleBetter-designed business intelligence can accelerate AI initiatives
AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBusiness IntelligenceFinancial/Revenue Cycle ManagementQuality and SafetyAt Penn Medicine, integrated product teams – comprising data scientists, physicians and software...
View ArticleMore than 600K patients affected in UNM Health hack
The University of New Mexico Health System began notifying patients earlier this month about a recent cybersecurity incident resulting in potential data exposure.According to the system's report to the...
View ArticleSHIEC, NRHI join forces to launch Civitas Networks for Health
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement and the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative announced this week that they're partnering to launch a new collaborative project called...
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