Risk Management
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
It's not clear how many patient records might have been exposed; company has more than 4.8 million customers in 12 states, Puerto Rico.
Project took AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, and molded it around long-term care facilities.
Report said 6 in 10 hospitals looked at had c-section rates above the national target rate for low-risk births.
Authors caution that the findings should be considered exploratory, but say that the gap could be bridged by continuing education, re-training.
While security experts were expecting a second wave of attacks this week, the outbreak has begun to slow.
Many set up command centers and feverishly worked to roll out patches to gird against the global ransomware crisis.
The network was likely taken down by the Wanna Decryptor, one of the most effective ransomware variants for which there's currently no decryptor available.
Entering the healthcare services market might just be the answer to offset risk-laden insurance products.
The IG said Medicare should have done an in-depth review of 96 hospitals that submitted "aberrant data patterns" in 2013 and 2014.