[Note: This piece has been updated to include comments from Zocdoc.] The medical scheduling site Zocdoc published a letter this week describing a programming error that allowed patient information to be exposed to providers in an unauthorized manner. As…
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How a natural disaster spurred one provider to optimize its IT with managed services
California's Santa Rosa Community Health, a federally qualified health center, serves more than 40,000 uninsured and underinsured people in the greater Santa Rosa area. THE PROBLEM In 2017, the Tubbs Fire destroyed 6,000 homes and the provider organization's largest health…
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DirectTrust hits major milestone with 2B exchange transactions
DirectTrust announced this week that there were 719 million Direct Secure Messages sent and received this past year, bringing the total number of transactions since the nonprofit began tracking them in 2014 – up past 2.1 billion at the end…
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Major security incidents are the new normal for hospitals and health systems
The 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey gathered feedback from 168 US based healthcare cybersecurity professionals – mostly IT and infosec leaders at provider organizations, but also some consultants and vendors – to offer an updated snapshot showing the of the current…
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Amazon security tool can help automate risk management readiness
Healthcare is no stranger to security frameworks the can help provider organizations get their arms around sprawling and detailed infosec challenges through concrete checklists and sets of best practices. They’re hugely helpful, even if far too few providers make use…
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Nuance launches new AI-powered and cloud-based speech recognition solution in the Nordics
Physicians nowadays spend about twice as much time entering or re-entering data into computers than they do interacting with patients, causing what the president of the World Medical Association has called a “pandemic of physician burnout,” with 51% of physicians…
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RTLS tech, and changes learned from it, save hospital $1 million per year
Operating rooms typically account for a significant portion of a hospital’s expenses, not to mention as much as 70% of its revenue. This was certainly true at Adventist Health White Memorial. THE PROBLEM When the hospital looked at its data,…
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