A healthcare-scheduling expert explains how intelligent tools can save providers time and money by optimizing physician capacity, accelerating patient access and cutting unnecessary staff training and administration. Powered by WPeMatico
Larger companies are taking an “all or nothing” approach in light of proposed legislation, one HIE leader says, but electronic health record developers can look to modernized data lakes for inspiration and place guardrails around PHI. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — When I was a medical student and resident in Philadelphia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were a half-dozen medical schools within a 10-mile radius. That number was reduced to 5 in 1995 when two of the medical schools… Powered by WPeMatico
Ahead of her appearance at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, an information security expert from MITRE offers advice on ways provider organizations can prepare for the worst in a complex and wildly fluctuating threat landscape. Powered by WPeMatico
When Vanderbilt University Medical Center turned over non-anonymized medical records to the state without patient consent, it pitted Tennessee state law against HIPAA and unleashed a federal investigation as well as a class action patient lawsuit. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — In August 2006, Ruby Trautz of Omaha, Nebraska was the first person of several to die in a foodborne outbreak after eating uncooked baby spinach laced with E. coli 0157:H7, a pathogen that makes a deadly toxin not unlike the… Powered by WPeMatico
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released the following statement on the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on mifepristone: Powered by WPeMatico