The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality, Safety & Oversight Group sent a memo to state survey agency directors, effective immediately, clarifying HIPAA compliance for texting patient information and hospital orders at critical…
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On July 10, 2023, attorneys filed suit against Johns Hopkins University and its health system alleging that the renowned hospital and medical school had failed to properly secure IT systems, resulting in a massive…
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It’s no secret that healthcare organizations are taking heavy fire from cyberattacks across their vast IT surfaces and regulators require ever-higher levels of cyber hygiene and defense maturity to protect patients and patient data…
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Epro, a leading UK healthcare informatics provider, has been awarded onto the Commercial Procurement Services’ National Framework Agreement for Legacy Information Integration and Management. The framework agreement is designed to mitigate the challenges trusts…
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Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director of EHR Consultancy MediConfig
These days, technology plays a vital role in improving the quality of life, impacting various sectors, including healthcare. Electronic Health Records (EHR) have revolutionized the way medical…
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The following is a guest article by William Thorn, CISSP, CDPSE, Senior Strategist and Architect at Trellix
Do cyber threats feel like an inevitable workplace hazard? Attacks may seem rare when trying to anticipate them…
By Hannah Nelson
February 01, 2024 – Community Health Systems (CHS) has completed data migration to a Google Cloud platform to advance healthcare interoperability and generative AI deployment across its 71 affiliated hospitals.
Google Cloud’s health data…
It may seem obvious that patients’ medication records should be accessible to their doctors, but that’s not always the case. While technology has made it possible for hospitals to amass a mountain of patient…
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Doctors and researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the UMD Institute for Health Computing and the VA Maryland Healthcare System are concerned that large language models summarizing clinical data could meet…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 31, 2024 – While generative AI shows promise for EHR data summarization, using large language models (LLMs) to summarize clinical data brings risks that are not clearly covered by existing Food and…
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