FBI investigates ransomware attack causing disruptions in Connecticut hospitals. Eastern Connecticut Health Network and Waterbury Health experience computer system shutdowns, leading to canceled services and ambulance diversions. Prospect Medical Holdings, the parent company, is…
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Bipartisan senators, led by Bob Casey and James Lankford, urgently call on Congress to prevent $8 billion in annual payment cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program, aiming to safeguard healthcare access for…
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Hospitals’ pharmacy spending is projected to rise by 3.42% next year, according to a new report published by Vizient. Specialty drugs and neurology medications are the primary drivers of this increase in pharmacy expenses.
Vizient…
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A ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings disrupts or shuts down its 16 hospitals and 165 outpatient locations across five states.
The company’s hospitals are in Southern California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. They…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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It’s well known that heart failure is a sweeping national problem — the condition affects more than 6 million Americans and costs the country more than $30 billion per year.
Geisinger, like many other health…
Entity information officer. This is a significant development in healthcare information technology at hospitals and health systems.What, you ask, is an entity information officer? One of the best persons to answer this question is…
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Eastern Connecticut Health Network and Waterbury Health confirmed that they are experiencing healthcare delivery disruptions as part of cyberattacks that hit on Thursday, according to a News 8 report.ECHN and Waterbury Health, part of…
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August 04, 2023 – The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health treatment…
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University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has teamed up with IgniteData and AstraZeneca to evaluate how electronic health records to electronic data capture could perform in a clinical setting, in applied clinical trials.In…
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