Quality and Safety

The COVID-19 telehealth boom has expanded health systems' perimeters – inside and outside the network – and in the process it's made them more vulnerable to breaches.

At ChristianaCare, "we've embedded information security deeply into our strategy and governance," said CEO Janice Nevin. "It's not just an IT issue, it's a patient safety issue, and it's everyone's responsibility."

Panelists at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this week said cybercriminals will likely use tried-and-true techniques, such as phishing emails themed around COVID-19 vaccines or President-elect Biden, to keep exploiting novel vulnerabilities.

The latest security industry forecast from Experian warns that bad actors will continue to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis next year.

OASIS CEO Thamer Shaker says all stakeholders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are working toward a roadmap to ensure alignment with government policy to drive digital innovation in healthcare.

The agency aims to issue a unified industry-wide specification for representing addresses by the end of 2021.

The New York health system has made AI and automation central to its mission, embedding algorithms into a wide array of workflows to target dozens of improvement initiatives.

TechCrunch reports that the EHR and practice management vendor left sensitive patient information unencrypted and vulnerable to exposure on a Microsoft Azure-hosted server.

The Cerner technology has helped decrease patient transfers to other locations and reduce average transfer time. It also helps track COVID-19 metrics for individual facilities across the health system.

SapphireHMS CIO Omar Shraim explains the importance of digital transformation and how SapphireHMS endeavors to improve patient care.