Henry Powderly
Officials at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center on Wednesday night said they have paid hackers a $17,000 ransom to regain access and control over the hospital's computer systems after a low-tech ransomware attack locked them out of their networks.
West Coast retail clinic operator Zoom+ on Monday opened its 32nd facility, as the provider of on-demand healthcare continues to grow amid surging interest in retail healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday published a final rule that requires healthcare providers to repay overpayments discovered within six years of the initial Medicare reimbursement, a significantly shorter lookback period than first proposed.
Though President Barack Obama's proposed 2017 budget died almost as fast as it arrived at Congress on Tuesday, the chief executive's final proposal included millions in healthcare spending to bolster quality programs, improve interoperability and fight rising pharmaceutical prices.
Healthcare businesses added more than 37,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as the first month of 2016 seemed to extend the sector's job-creating trend over the past year.
As American voters are weighing the differing proposals and positions of the top candidates this primary season, we thought we'd ask our readers of healthcare insiders who they think would be the best to lead the country from strictly a healthcare policy position.
Health insurer Centene Corp. on Monday said it has lost six hard drives containing the health information of about 950,000 beneficiaries.
Jefferson Health will merge with Kennedy Health, the healthcare systems announced on Friday, in a move that will add three New Jersey hospitals to the growing Philadelphia-based provider.
Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceutical CEO reviled by many for hike 5,000 percent price hike of AIDS drug Daraprim, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud, according to several published reports.
The public health system will also use Cerner's patient engagement tool, which takes patient data and uses it to suggest wellness tools and other health tracking options.