HHS issued an alert warning providers about Rhysida, a ransomware gang that recently begun launching attacks on healthcare organizations. The group deploys its ransomware primarily through phishing attacks or the exploitation of legitimate cybersecurity tools.
Explore the myriad benefits telehealth offers to healthcare providers and patients alike. From enhanced convenience and improved privacy to streamlined workflows and elevated patient satisfaction, find out how telehealth is reshaping the future of healthcare delivery.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
It's never a question of whether a hospital will experience downtime — it’s a matter of when. Adopting the right downtime technology means hospitals can cut costs, reduce stress on staff and mitigate risk of cyberattack by automatically encrypting data to HIPAA standards.
Over the past decade, a significant percentage of the country’s physicians have shifted from working in private practices (defined as those owned wholly by physicians) to working in bigger, health system-owned practices. The ability to negotiate higher payment rates with insurers when working at a larger practice is a crucial factor causing this trend, according to a new AMA analysis.
To prevent the proliferation of data security incidents in the healthcare industry, providers must examine their use of legacy systems as well as their reliance on third parties, according to a new report. It pointed out that most providers fail to probe their third-party partners' cybersecurity measures, and many continue to use legacy systems that are no longer supported by vendors or are hard to patch and update.
Resolve your healthcare information technology concerns by optimizing your technology, boosting workflows, improving staff productivity, and driving revenue.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Health tech experts explained the nuances of healthcare data management and ways in which patient data can be cleaned, converted, standardized and harmonized across systems
For healthcare organizations experiencing difficulty launching and sustaining data-driven performance improvement projects, one potential solution to consider is more flexible organization design and increasing self-service data access.
The traditional transactional approach to the coding of diagnoses to support billing in a fee-for-service environment is not adequate to meet the care requirements of VBC programs.
Putting in the due diligence prior to implementing an EHR software establishes a clear game plan for everyone involved. It will empower your team to work towards a common goal and ultimately serves to improve the lives of physicians and patients.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Public health is heavily dependent on collecting and sharing accurate patient data. Standards for data collection and interoperability can move the needle toward better health data, but it is up to healthcare organizations to take ownership of their data quality by following best practices and adopting technologies that can detect and eliminate bad patient data before it is disseminated.
To increase your return on technology investment, start with an audit of existing technology. Where is it falling short? Do problems stem from lack of functionality or troubles with adoption? What do all users think?
But what AI solutions can’t do is magically eliminate the need for empowered registrars. Maximizing growth while improving efficiency requires both people and technologies.
Healthcare executives must recognize the 10,000-piece cybersecurity puzzle is more likely solved by engaging leaders throughout the organization to share in responsibility instead of dropping the box of pieces on the desk of the CIO to solve alone.
A new decentralized network of the future exists and is in operation today. Large payers and providers are already beginning to use it for administrative transactions, although clinical transactions are also envisioned.