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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 14 years of healthcare IT and finance journalism experience and extensive expertise in mobile technologies.

By Bill Siwicki | 04:41 pm | March 03, 2017
Bill would phase out the Medicaid expansion.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:12 pm | February 24, 2017
About 81 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations and 76 percent of global healthcare organizations will increase information security spending in 2017.
By Bill Siwicki | 10:11 am | February 23, 2017
The new system is designed to help providers handle the complexity of managing and modeling payer contracts.
By Bill Siwicki | 04:06 pm | November 17, 2016
Cyber-perpetrator was back with two demands for ransom but overall incident count is down, according to Protenus.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:34 pm | September 09, 2016
Forty-three percent of breaches in August were insider incidents, including both accidental and intentional wrongdoing.
By Bill Siwicki | 10:06 am | August 04, 2016
Banner Health revealed that hackers may have accessed the healthcare, payment and health plan information of up to 3.7 million individuals.
By Bill Siwicki | 10:55 am | July 20, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report to Congress wherein it stated that HIPAA serves traditional healthcare well and continues to support national priorities for interoperable health information with its media-neutral privacy rule, but that the scope of HIPAA is limited.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:52 pm | July 18, 2016
Nearly half of U.S. physicians are unfamiliar with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, also known as MACRA, according to a new survey of 600 doctors by research and consulting giant Deloitte.
By Bill Siwicki | 03:24 pm | July 12, 2016
McKesson Health Solutions has acquired IT vendor HealthQX to expand its IT portfolio with HealthQX's ClarityQx value-based payment technology.
By Bill Siwicki | 11:18 am | June 02, 2016
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded Boston Children's Hospital approximately $275,000 to address the coordination of open information about market-ready electronic health records app solutions.