News 3/3/23
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VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy, JD, who oversees the VA’s Oracle Cerner implementation and other initiatives as its equivalent to COO, resigns as of April 1.
Remy’s departure follows that of VA EHR…
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Abridge Begins the Largest Deployment of Its Medical Documentation AI
Abridge, a company that sells AI software for medical documentation, on Thursday announced the largest deployment of its technology to date. The University of Kansas Health System will adopt the software for more than…
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Paid Sick Leave Improves Preventive Screening Rates by Up to 8%
By Sara Heath March 02, 2023 – A new study out of Tulane University confirms what many may have been able to guess about patient access to care: paid sick leave policies…
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Top VA Official Overseeing Rocky EHRM Rollout Steps Down
By Hannah Nelson
March 02, 2023 – Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) deputy secretary Donald Remy will step down on April 1st after overseeing the agency’s rocky EHR modernization (EHRM) rollout that launched in…
FTC to bar BetterHelp from sharing health data for ads
The Federal Trade Commission has fined online therapy company BetterHelp $7.8 million for allegedly sharing consumer data with third parties like Facebook and Snapchat for advertising purposes.The proposed order — the second recent action…
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Walmart Health Center to Add 28 New Locations in 2024
What You Should Know:– Today, Walmart announced it will add 28 new Walmart Health centers, with 75+ total locations by the end of the year. This continues our commitment to making quality healthcare more convenient, accessible…
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Spring 2023
Departments Product ReviewCare to Share
Designed to enable safe file sharing in highly regulated healthcare environments, this platform offers easy integration.
DashboardSleep Tight
Healthcare organizations don’t have to face the nightmare of cyberthreats alone.
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Data Encryption and Zero Trust: How to Protect Patient Information
Why Data Access Management Is Important for HealthcareData access management is a key component of the zero-trust data pillar. It encompasses robust authentication and role-based access control to verify users and conduct continuous monitoring…
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How best to manage, or dump, legacy healthcare IT systems
According to a 2021 HIMSS survey, 73% of healthcare provider organizations have legacy information systems. They’re costly to maintain and a pain to keep up.The question is, what to do about them?
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Alpha TAU Killing Tumors With Highly Targeted Alpha Radiation
Radiation is commonly employed in hospitals around the world to treat tumors, typically using gamma ray beams of high energy photons, with a relatively long range, that penetrate all the tissues on the way…
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