Risk Management
While focus on care coordination and consumerism may likely continue, insiders worry that too much change could hurt them.
One model will test whether a four-step process to integrate shared decision-making into routine clinical practice lowers cost while improving quality.
The study builds on existing research that confirms nutrition can be a simple, cost-effective tool.
In addition to harming patients and crippling a healthcare provider, the attacks in the future will cause stock fluctuations that benefit criminals, said Scott Borg, chief economist at the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit.
Lack of protections, rising number of attacks, value of healthcare information to hackers, makes industry a ripe target.
Since those margins and fundraising capabilities are higher, children's hospitals also tend to have higher liquidity, Moody's found.
Heater-cooler device linked to sometimes deadly bacterial infection; FDA under scrutiny for handling of information tied to safety.
The four hospitals combined will require more than $300 million in state operating assistance in FY2017 to keep doors open, the report said.
HHS Office for Civil Rights said lack of firewall to blame; breach exposed private information of more than 1,600 people.
The disease is still a public challenge, however, and the organization said it remains dedicated to responding to the virus.