Morning Headlines 2/28/23
February 27, 2023 Headlines No Comments Cerebral to Cut 15% of Staff in Fresh Round of Layoffs
Cerebral lays off 15% of its staff, part of the direct-to-consumer telemedicine company’s year-long plan to…
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Healthcare Data Series in The US – Data is Increasingly Analysed, but Many Challenges Remain
If you work in healthcare IT, you must have heard the name Epic. Epic is a renowned EHR provider, that covers around a third of the US healthcare market. In 2019, Epic launched Cosmos, a…
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Virtual Care, Real Outcomes
I won’t delve into Covid-19’s impact on our country and healthcare system, but the one silver lining has been the market response to drive a better consumer healthcare experience. Virtual Care is having its…
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The Home Healthcare Boom is Upon Us
As Americans age—in particular Baby Boomers—there is a corresponding rise in home healthcare, fueled by a growing desire for convenience as well as many seniors’ desire to age in place. Before and especially during…
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How to Overcome HIPAA Myths to Enhance the Protection of Healthcare Data
The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva.
For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes…
It’s Time to Stop Accepting the Payer-Provider Dynamic as ‘Adversarial’ and Work Toward Alignment
Heather Bassett, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, XSOLISToday’s relationship between payers and providers is more fraught than ever. With a history of transactional, often adversarial, fee-for-service contract negotiations, it’s no wonder that the healthcare industry…
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News 2/22/23
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ONC publishes “Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit.”
Reader Comments From NY CIO: “Re: Northwell Health. Word is it will announce its move to Epic and that it will bring a large…
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Understanding the Healthcare Cybersecurity War and How to Defend Against It [Sponsored]
The series of attacks on our healthcare infrastructure, particularly hospitals where ransomware attacks are on the rise, is a worrying trend that puts lives in jeopardy. A ransomware attack could mean the difference between…
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Morning Headlines 2/20/23
February 19, 2023 Headlines No Comments Reported HIPAA complaints and breaches shot up from 2017 to 2021: HHS
HHS OCR reports that it does not have the financial resources it needs to investigate mounting HIPAA breaches and complaints, both of which increased between 2017 and 2021.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare resumes normal operations, but questions loom
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (FL) announces that it has fully restored its computer systems and services 13 days after an unspecified security incident forced it to downtime procedures.
Lightbeam Health Solutions Is Relocating Its HQ from Las Colinas to Cypress Waters in Coppell
Population health management company Lightbeam Health Solutions…
Community Health Systems reports GoAnywhere hacked
Community Health Systems filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was notified by a third-party vendor for secure file transfer of an incident that resulted in unauthorized disclosure of its patient data.WHY IT MATTERS
The GoAnywhere managed file transfer platform first warned about a zero-day remote code injection exploit on February 1, according to the technical bulletin posted by noted security researcher Brian Krebs on Infosec.exchange.
“The attack vector of this exploit requires access to the administrative console of the application, which in most cases is accessible only from within a private company network, through [virtual private network] or by allow-listed IP…