Risk Management
More than a third of the 1,798 breaches discovered in 2016 affected either large hospitals or academic medical centers, a JAMA report found.
Hospitals are increasingly driven to improve in these areas to avoid reimbursement cuts.
Healthgrades said 134,568 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals performed like the winners did.
Congress should create permanent cybersecurity liaisons and leaders who are experienced and certified cybersecurity professionals, group says.
Deploy detection tool, use threat intelligence services and train your employees now to stay ahead, Beazley report says.
Only about half of the physicians surveyed think it's an effective model for delivering cost-effective or high-quality care, survey says.
Insurer says CMS violated the law's requirement that Medicare Advantage insurers be subject to the same actuarial standards as Medicare.
Insurers are already seeing success, experts say, and they won't be quick to give up those savings.
Integrating caregivers into discharge planning resulted in a 25 percent reduction in risk of readmission within 90 days, results show.
Employee responded to a phishing attempt masked as a legitimate request in December; officials found out weeks later.