Patients and employers could see their healthcare costs decrease by 62 percent if diagnostic imaging was shifted from hospital outpatient settings to lower-cost imaging centers, according to a report from UnitedHealth Group.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

An Ohio hospital that went offline on Sept. 21 after identifying a cybersecurity incident is still bringing computers back online two months later, according to a Nov. 18 report in the Star Beacon.

Christopher Krebs, director of the federal agency overseeing cybersecurity and protection for hospitals, was fired on Nov. 17, according to Politico.

Bryan, Texas-based St. Joseph Health plans to hire medical technologists and other staff members to support an influx of COVID-19 testing, according to a report from CBS affiliate KBTX-TV.

A Mercy Iowa City employee email breach this year exposed the information of tens of thousands of patients, according to the Office of the Iowa Attorney General.

Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts is led by a collection of tech industry veterans and previous healthcare executives.  

As EHRs continue to age out from first and second generation software, hospitals and health systems will increasingly look to transition their current systems to a new platform.

While the U.S. races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, there are two technologies already in widespread use outside the country that may limit virus transmission: germicidal ultraviolet light and the antituberculosis vaccine BCG, according to Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD,…

As health systems and providers transition from fee-for-service to value-based care reimbursement models, many are turning to precision health as a tool to reinvent care delivery. This evolution, however, requires fundamental changes to the way providers, patients and payers interact.…