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Monday, April 19, 2021

Haemonetics Slumps as CSL Plasma Declines to Renew a Supply Pact

About 12% of Haemonetics 2020 revenue came from a contract with CSL Plasma. CSL declined to renew the accord.
Friday, April 16, 2021

VA will halt EHR rollout at second site until after strategic review

Officials told members of Congress this week that the agency will not start go-live activities in Columbus before sharing results of a review.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The Billionaire Who Controls Your Medical Records

Epic Systems founder Judy Faulkner built an empire pioneering—and later dominating—electronic medical records. For decades, she's kept them walled off from competitors, but now the pandemic is fueling a digital health care race that might f…
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

5 Ways to Update Your Healthcare Incident Response Plan

Cybersecurity response plans often become outdated, which can hamper the effectiveness of your team’s response.
Friday, March 12, 2021

Ransomware attacks on US healthcare organizations cost $20.8bn in 2020

In 2020, 92 individual ransomware attacks affected over 600 separate clinics, hospitals, and organizations and more than 18 million patient records. We estimate the cost of these attacks to be almost $21 billion.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Extension of the Public Comment Period for Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces a 45-day extension of the public comment period for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Health Insurance Portabi…
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

5 top states for healthcare, ranked by US News & World Report

Hawaii is the top state for healthcare, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual best states rankings published March 9.
Monday, March 8, 2021

150 top places to work in healthcare

Hospitals and health systems
Friday, February 5, 2021

Chinese cyber actors trying to steal US healthcare data, officials say

Cyber threat actors with connections to China are targeting U.S. healthcare and genomic data by hacking and other extraction methods, according to a February alert issued by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Friday, January 22, 2021

No more needles?

Newswise — Blood draws are no fun. They hurt. Veins can burst, or even roll — like they’re trying to avoid the needle, too.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Are proposed HIPAA changes good for healthcare? 3 hospital execs weigh in

While the recently proposed HHS updates to the HIPAA Privacy Rule aim to help patients get more digital access to their health information, some of the proposed changes pose concerns for healthcare providers.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Ransomware attack derails UVM's Epic implementation timeline

The Vermont health system said that it would modify the second and third phases of its EHR go-live, partially in response to the obstacles levied by the attack this past fall.
Monday, January 4, 2021

Allscripts finalizes $1.35B CarePort Health sale

Allscripts closed the $1.35 billion sale of its care coordination company CarePort Health to WellSky Dec. 31.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

How safe is your hospital? These states rank best and worst for care.

An expert panel of doctors tracked and analyzed patient safety data from thousands of U.S. hospitals and graded them in a report released Monday.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Moderna vaccine data accessed in cyberattack on EU regulator

A cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) resulted in data related to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate being accessed by hackers, the company said Monday.
Friday, December 11, 2020

HHS floats major changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule

The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Thursday proposed substantial new changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule, with the goal, the agency says, to further value-based reimbursement and improve care coordination by enabling greater patient and family ac…
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Ransomware groups becoming more sophisticated: 3 details

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated with their attacks to cause destruction in a shorter period of time, according to an online report in ZDNet.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Amazon launches HealthLake, a platform for storing and analyzing health care data

During its re:Invent 2020 virtual keynote today, Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store, transform, and analyze up to petabytes of life science data in Amazon Web Services. Amazon says t…
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Beware of insider cyber threats, AMA warns hospitals

Hospitals and health systems must stay on the lookout for Ryuk ransomware, which is one of the newest and biggest cyber threats emerging in the industry, according to the American Medical Association.
Monday, November 16, 2020

The next iteration of Epic and EHRs

Epic has made gains in the hospital EHR market share in the past year and has been instrumental during the pandemic in supporting field hospitals in New York, Chicago and other cities.