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Monday, August 3, 2020

Netwalker ransomware attacks are on the rise, FBI warns

The FBI issued a warning July 28 about increasing Netwalker ransomware attacks, specifically targeting U.S. and foreign health agencies, private companies and governments.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Healthcare data breach cost up to $7M per incident

Hospitals and clinics continued to rack up the highest average data breach costs in 2020 at $7.13 million, up 10 percent since last year, according to IBM Security's July 29 report.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Henry Ford Health System pilots no-touch digital health screening kiosks

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System launched a pilot of 10 digital health screening kiosks, which can capture and monitor vital signs without touching the individual, according to a July 20 Detroit Free Press report.
Monday, July 13, 2020

Allscripts to transition Sunrise EHR to Microsoft cloud

Allscripts on July 13 announced a five-year extension of its alliance with Microsoft, designating the tech giant as its new cloud provider.
Friday, June 26, 2020

Epic vs. Cerner vs. Meditech: 10 key comparisons

Epic, Cerner and Meditech have the largest market share of EHRs at hospitals across the nation.
Thursday, June 18, 2020

What is a National Patient Identifier and Why is It Important?

Patient matching has been a hot button issue for over two decades and the National Patient Identifier could be the final answer.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

New York hospital to close maternity unit after 60 years

Massena (N.Y.) Hospital will close its maternity unit and its after-hours emergency surgery unit on July 12, according to TV station WWNY.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

$250B of all healthcare spend could be digitized, McKinsey estimates

Up to $250 billion in healthcare spending could be digitized, according to a new brief from consultancy McKinsey & Company. That's roughly 20% of all estimated Medicare, Medicaid and commercial outpatient, office and home health spending fo…
Monday, June 8, 2020

Cerner sells troubled revenue cycle management arm for $30M

EHR giant Cerner has sold its underperforming revenue cycle management arm RevWorks to provider RCM player R1 for $30 million.
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Haemonetics sells off blood donor software

Haemonetics (NYSE:HAE) announced today that it plans to sell certain blood donor management software assets to the GPI Group.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Hospital innovation in the 'new normal': 3 accelerated trends

The COVID-19 pandemic forced health systems to reevaluate care delivery, including a transition to virtual care and accelerating their operational and digital transformation journeys. Now, innovation leaders are seizing the momentum for rap…
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Electronic Health Records Fail to Detect Up to 33% of Medication Errors

Newswise — Despite improvements in their performance over the past decade, electronic health records (EHRs) commonly used in hospitals nationwide fail to detect up to one in three potentially harmful drug interactions and other medication e…
Monday, June 1, 2020

Beaumont, Summa Health cancel $6.1B merger plan

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health announced May 29 that it is calling off a proposed merger with Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health.
Thursday, May 28, 2020

4 Chicago hospitals call off $1.1B merger plan

Four Chicago hospitals announced May 26 that they are ending their plans to merge after government funding for the $1.1 billion project fell through.
Monday, May 4, 2020

How Organizations Can Ramp Up Their Cybersecurity Efforts Right Now

Prior to Covid-19, most companies perceived their worst-case cybersecurity scenario as a computer virus that would shut down company computer systems.
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Geisinger physicians use blood test to diagnose cancer in patients without symptoms

Researchers at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger have successfully used a blood test to diagnose presymptomatic cancer patients for the first time, according to a study published in Science.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Microsoft Teams vulnerability could have let hackers access data through GIF

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Microsoft Teams that would have allowed hackers to tap into a subdomain takeover flaw using a malicious GIF that extracts personal user data from the workplace communication platform, according to a recent…
Monday, April 27, 2020

6 hospital deals called off or delayed

Below are six hospital transactions or partnerships that have been delayed or called off since Jan. 1, beginning with the most recent:
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Beaumont, Summa Health delay merger

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health is delaying its merger with Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Beaumont CEO John Fox said during a news briefing April 21.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Google blocks 18M daily malware, phishing emails related to COVID-19

In a one-week period, Google Cloud's machine learning models blocked 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 scams, according to a recent company blog post.