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Sarah Hatchett, who had been serving as interim chief information officer since August 2023, will take on the role full time.
By 2030, there is projected to be a shortage of 120,000 cardiologists in the U.S. Combined with the decline in hospital beds and rising cost of heart failure, healthcare organizations need to find a way to detect heart failure earlier and at lower cost.
As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.
Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach.
Hackers may have entered through one of its third-party vendors.
To gain insights into population health risks from aggregated data across multiple systems, the Electronic Health Record Association asks CMS to ensure risk standards are well defined under IPPS before expanding domain capture requirements.
The IT developer says its latest update gives specialty providers, including women's health practices and urgent care centers, the ability to configure electronic health records to their specific needs, reducing administrative burdens.
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The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.
While all facilities are reportedly open and providing care, disruptions continue, with some provider sites unable to fill prescriptions, certain procedures rescheduled and delays in diagnostic imaging and testing.