Bill Siwicki
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.
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.
McKesson Health Solutions has acquired IT vendor HealthQX to expand its IT portfolio with HealthQX's ClarityQx value-based payment technology.
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.
Kansas Heart Hospital was the victim of a ransomware attack and after it paid the the first one, attackers boldly demanded a second ransom to decrypt data.
By and large, population health measurement efforts are poorly developed and uncoordinated - and without effective measurement, success will remain elusive.
Five of the eight largest healthcare security breaches that occurred since the beginning of 2010 - those with more than 1 million records reportedly compromised - took place during the first six months of 2015, according to IBM X-Force's "2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index."
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is poised to deliver new cybersecurty guidance, according to NIST fellow Ronald Ross.
Customers at their corner CVS Health MinuteClinics in Ohio now can access clinicians at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic via online and mobile telehealth technology from vendor American Well.
A member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Federal Trade Commission official have called for greater protections against and notification of ransomware attacks - and bolstered cybersecurity for healthcare overall.