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Yes, health entities need to be held responsible for protecting patient data but public shaming isn’t making that happen. There’s a better way forward.
Last week the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took the unprecedented step of recalling a biomedical device because of concerns over its lack of cybersecurity.
Three former employees say they were assigned to positions that paid them less than their male colleagues.
The tech is designed to bring medical staff and patients closer together through private online communications, protecting this exchange of data as well as sensitive data at rest.
Further topics from the NHS innovation conference this week include the establishment of up to five digital innovation hubs to create and use datasets to improve quality of care or asking suppliers to adopt open approaches to data sharing.
HIMSS Analytics says hospitals are still learning to leverage clinical and business intelligence tools, but the outcomes gleaned from pop health could one day put meaningful use to shame.
APIs bring third-party analytics tools into the Epic platform, helping hospitals get more out of EHR investments, hospital CIO says.
Prellis Biologics says it is overcoming a major obstacle to success, and just raised $1.8 million in new seed funding.
The machine learning and data-sharing effort is designed to strengthen, accelerate and potentially expand the delivery of precision medicine in breast cancer care.
The EHR vendor says Share Everywhere is designed to empower MyChart users to allow clinicians to view medical records.