Risk Management
Philadelphia ransomware is part of a highly targeted spear-phishing campaign that may signify more ransomware-as-service campaigns are on horizon.
As patients carry more financial responsibility, health systems nationwide face the potential for bad press.
However, overall hospital quality star ratings will not include Patient Safety Indicator results for fiscal year 2018 due to a software issue.
Residents are a part of research group at BMC participating in the I-PASS Study Group, which focuses on reducing medical errors related to patient handoffs.
With Bitcoin allowing attackers to stay anonymous, and a bulls-eye painted over the industry, time to get prepared is running out, group says.
The House speaker said the idea, modeled after Maine program, has support of both moderates and the conservative Freedom Caucus.
More than a third of the 1,798 breaches discovered in 2016 affected either large hospitals or academic medical centers, a JAMA report found.
Hospitals are increasingly driven to improve in these areas to avoid reimbursement cuts.
Healthgrades said 134,568 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals performed like the winners did.
Congress should create permanent cybersecurity liaisons and leaders who are experienced and certified cybersecurity professionals, group says.