The hackers who broke into Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' network and stole 4.5 million patients' information did so using the Heartbleed Internet bug, according to a Reuters report.
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Only five percent of top-level supply chain positions in Fortune 500 companies are held by women, compared to 15 percent of all executive officer positions, according to a Fortune report.
While women hold 15 percent of all executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies, they only hold 5 percent of top-level supply chain positions, according to a Fortune report.
CMS has announced that, due to "required infrastructure system upgrades," the October update to its Hospital Compare website will be limited to two data points: Medicare Spending per Beneficiary and aggregate payment information.
Hospitals in 27 states have alerted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 68 possible Ebola patients in the last three weeks, according to an ABC News report.
In its second round of layoffs this year, Las Vegas-based University Medical Center has laid off 285 employees, including nurses, office assistants and other support staff, according to a Las Vegas Sun report.
More than 4,000 employees at Kansas City, Mo.-based Children's Mercy Hospital were affected by a security breach discovered in an online scheduling application, according to a Kansas City Star report.
Early action can help preserve hospitals and their brands, avoiding the next consolidation wave
Robert Broermann, Senior Vice President and CFO of Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, Va.) Mr. Broermann joined Sentara Healthcare, a 12-hospital system with locations in Virginia and North Carolina, in 1998 after its merger with Virginia Beach, Va.-based Tidewater Health Care, where Mr. Broermann…
Lawrence Furnstahl, CFO of Oregon Health and Science University (Portland) Mr. Furnstahl joined OHSU in 2011 after serving as chief financial and strategy officer for the University of Chicago Medical Center and Biological Sciences Division. In that position, he managed the $1.6 million budget of…