Jessica Davis
If the spate of recent ransomware attacks on hospitals across the U.S. is any indication of the future of cybercrime, it's clear that hackers are far from finished in pushing boundaries and wreaking havoc on healthcare. The new ransomware, PowerWare, is the latest example.
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules on patient record disclosures to ensure substance use disorder patients can participate in new integrated healthcare models without risk of having their records shared inappropriately.
More than one-third of hospitals aren't meeting National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators performance metrics, a new Ohio State University study on chief nurse executives finds.
Many providers are at a crossroads right now: Either join an accountable care organization or be placed into Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.
While financial incentives influence physician behavior and moderately improve quality measures, non-incentivized providers targeted with other quality measure efforts have greater performance improvement, according to a recent study published by the JAMA Network.
Intermountain Healthcare is rolling out mobile, cloud-based rounding and audit compliance tools powered by Nashville-based ReadyPoint.
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network, made up of an alliance between Canvas Health, Guild Incorporated, Mental Health Resource, RESOURCE, INC. and Touchstone Mental Health, announced today it has joined with RelayHealth to establish interoperability amongst its campuses.
Christine K. Cassel, MD, president and CEO of National Quality Forum, will resign March 1, 2016, in order to take a leadership role in designing the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
Triple-S Management Corporation has agreed to settle potential HIPAA violations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human services to the tune of $3.5 million, after repeatedly failing to put safeguards in place for its beneficiaries' PHI.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program will add $23.4 million in additional funding for 75 new projects in 31 states, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.