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While some respondents said the choice makes sense, others lament lack of competitive bidding, costs.
While the crisis in cybersecurity staffing grows, healthcare IT and HR executives could be in a good position to lure cybersecurity talent.
The National Quality Forum is set to finalize a framework that can measure health data interoperability and identify gaps in progress.
The opportunities for data exchange improvements are big, both across VA-DoD and among private-sector providers.
While the U.S. was relatively spared from the massive impact from the May ransomware attacks, it’s clear that new cybersecurity threats require updated guidelines, HHS, CMS, ASPR officials say.
While previous security training was “death by PowerPoint,” new 10-minute training modules have vastly improved employee engagement, system says.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT needs more funding than the $38 million Trump allocated to advance interoperability, EHR usability and patient safety, a Pew official said.
Licensing partnership with 2bPrecise aims to bring genomics into the EHR workflow.
A three-year study on a large mid-Atlantic hospital found that the laboratory department was hit the hardest during downtime, with patient identification as the largest challenge.
But big hurdles related to data, technology and staffing need to be cleared first.