In the first six months, a quality improvement initiative helped realize a 662% increase in the number of patients identified each month for follow-up – from eight per month to 61. Powered by WPeMatico
Ransomware and denial-of-service attacks make headlines when it comes to hospital cybersecurity, but internal cultural and technological vulnerabilities are often more to blame for an ongoing cycle of healthcare data breaches. Powered by WPeMatico
The HIMSS Thailand National Digital Healthcare Workforce Development Initiative (WDI) was officially launched on the opening day of the HIMSS AsiaPac 2019 conference on October 7 in Bangkok, Thailand. Powered by WPeMatico
An interview with Joe Gibson, director of epidemiology at the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis. Powered by WPeMatico
Members are given financial and other rewards for participating. Powered by WPeMatico
At Connected Health Conference in Boston next week, the patient advocacy group celebrates a decade spent changing the conversation about how technology-enabled care is delivered. Powered by WPeMatico
The North Carolina health system expects to see a decrease in emergency department utilization and readmission rates. Powered by WPeMatico
The health system, which had been forced to shift operations into manual mode, using paper copies in place of digital records, purchased a decryption key from the hackers for an undisclosed sum. Powered by WPeMatico
The new offering, which includes patient matching, aggregation, normalization, deduplication and more, can help health systems launch more effective AI and machine learning projects, the company says. Powered by WPeMatico
The United States has maintained its measles elimination status of nearly 20 years. The New York State Department of Health yesterday declared the end of the state’s nearly year-long outbreak that had put the U.S. at risk of losing its measles elimination status. “We are very pleased that the measles outbreak has ended in New ...
