Risk Management
Under the new law, data brokers could create a new product useful for population health and potentially sellable.
HHS Office for Civil Rights offers a new perspective on the privacy law as it relates to mental health and substance abuse, clinical research.
Even among the majority of practices that have a policy, current training methods are too passive, MGMA experts say.
Best practices are emerging that healthcare organizations can use to optimize care and reduce ICU utilization that results from the procedures.
Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio is notifying 28,434 patients whose sensitive information was on the stolen laptop, local report says.
The new $27 million project will provide the NHS Security Operations Center with enhanced monitoring, vulnerability testing and malware analysis.
Expensive branded drugs, diagnostic testing and imaging for some patients prior to low-risk surgery and population-based vitamin D screening all make the list.
Expert says failure to address and punish the behavior, regardless of the perpetrator's status, can have big costs.
The government said it intends to collect from insurers the full 2016 risk corridors payments this month.
ECRI Institute weighed factors like severity, likelihood that the hazard could cause serious injury or death, frequency, overall likelihood and preventability.