By Bob Grant – In the past 90 days, there have been five separate instances of hospitals in the US and Canada being hit by ransomware attacks. The most recent of these instances affected MedStar Health, which is the largest health care provider throughout the Maryland and Washington, D.C. area.
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By George Rust MD, MPH – As an academic primary care doctor and a clinician-teacher turned researcher, I’ve always thought of AHRQ as the research agency that “gets it.” AHRQ gets the primary care generalist perspective — that the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts.
Recent reports and surveys include; WEDI looks at health data exchange, Cross Country Healthcare looks at healthcare delivery priorities. The ONC evaluates their REC program. And the 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index was released by IBM X-Force Research.
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By Rod Baird – This blog post covers the LTPAC Practice Management highlights from the American Medical Directors Association meeting in Orlando, FL during March 2016. For the first time in my 10+ years of participation, almost all of the pieces of the LTC and PAC puzzles were on display.
Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in March. Active registrants total over a half a million.
This week’s HIE rundown includes: Healthix partners with HBI Solutions, adding real-time predictive analytics to HIE offerings, Zillion releases digital health platform for enhanced consumer engagement and intervention, & NHHIO upgrades communication system, selects TigerText secure messaging platform.
Visit the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs events page for access to this year’s CMS presentations at the HIMSS conference last month in Las Vegas.