Nearly three-quarters of healthcare organizations have experienced a moderate to severe financial impact from cyber vulnerabilities in the past two years, Ernst & Young and KLAS Research found. Here are the top cyberthreats healthcare organizations have faced in the last…
EHRs / Interoperability
Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System has added a tool to its MyChart patient portal that allows users to register as organ, eye and tissue donors. The update has led more than 1,000 patients to sign up since August. The tool…
Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth sent letters to 531 patients indicating they were dead. They were very much alive. The nine-hospital system said an error in its computer system Oct. 20 caused the estate vendor letters to be generated and mailed to…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health has launched an EHR feature designed to help clinicians see patients as individuals, not just medical cases. The initiative, called “About Me,” invites patients to share personal details that appear directly in the health…
Three health systems have apparently been ensnared in a 2024 hack of EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, DataBreaches.net reported. In the December data breach, a cybercriminal used a credential obtained from a Veradigm customer to enter a Veradigm…
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Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner didn’t get an MBA — and she said the EHR giant wouldn’t look the same if she had. “If I had gotten an MBA, they would likely have taught me how to get venture…
Hospitals are beginning to rethink how new technology reaches the bedside. Instead of introducing tools and workflows from the top down, many health systems are starting earlier in the process — asking nurses to help design the systems they’ll eventually…
Sharp HealthCare has appointed Tommy Korn, MD, as its first chief spatial computing officer — a first-of-its-kind role in healthcare designed to integrate immersive technology into clinical care. When Dr. Korn waved hello during a recent video call, his real…
An outage at Microsoft’s cloud computing platform affected Epic’s MyChart patient portal, the Independent reported. DownDetector, a crowdsourced interruption-reporting site, showed a big increase in errors Oct. 29 for Microsoft Azure, with MyChart one of the impacted services, according to…
Hospitals are swimming in metrics — quality scores, throughput data, readmission rates, to name a few — but for those responsible for steering a facility’s digital transformation, one question looms above the rest: How to know when technology is actually…