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MorganFranklin Consulting's Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain offer their perspectives on the current threat environment and how health systems can build better cybersecurity resilience and business continuity strategies.
The upper chamber has followed the lead of the House of Representatives and removed a ban on national identifier research from its newest appropriations bill. Patient ID Now wants to maintain the momentum.
The 2019 incident, which disabled Springhill Medical Center's EHR and patient monitors for days, obscured access to critical information that could have allowed for a lifesaving C-section, the baby's mother says.
She comes to OCR from New York State's Department of Health, where she coordinated COVID-19 response and led social programs. Before that, she worked in the Obama administration on cybersecurity at DHS.
As ONC's recognized coordinating entity for TEFCA, the interoperability group is seeking stakeholder response on the data elements as it develops new exchange guidelines.
More than 70% of physicians surveyed for the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey work in practices that use video conferencing, with virtual care especially popular among specialists such as dermatologists and urologists.
The longtime health IT leader, who has served in top roles at Google Health and Geisinger, will take the reins October 1. William Zollars has been appointed chairman of Cerner's board of directors.
More than 400 healthcare and technology organizations are calling on Capitol Hill to eliminate arbitrary restrictions while helping FQHCs and critical access hospitals offer wider access to virtual care.
Attendees, exhibitors, speakers and staff will need to verify that they're fully vaccinated to gain entry to the HIMSS21 campus in Las Vegas. HIMSS will offer more guidance soon on proof and validation, including potential digital apps.
The agency is floating new requirements for hospitals to report on syndromic surveillance, immunization registries, electronic case reporting and electronic reportable laboratory results. It also has new plans for quality reporting.