While all eyes were on Los Angeles-based HollywoodPresbyterianMedicalCenter's week-long digital hostage negotiation with nameless hackers that ransomed its EMR earlier this month, LukasHospital in Neuss, Germany, was racing to contain its own malware attack.
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DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence arm, has plans to break into healthcare via a new partnership with Imperial College London and the Royal Free London National Health Services Foundation Trust, according to a BloombergBusiness report.
Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center is catching heat from a community health advocate who has admonished the hospital for not doing more to support an increase of at least $1 per pack in the state’s tobacco tax, the Charleston Gazette-Mail…
The federal government continued to focus on relationships between hospitals and physicians in 2015, specifically the role referrals play in driving physician compensation. That trend is likely to continue this year, making it crucial for healthcare organizations to utilize the…
The survivor of a 1995 Ebola outbreak donated their antibodies to researchers, who have used them to create a cocktail with enough kick to mitigate symptoms of the virus in primates within five days, according to findings published in Science.
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Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic made history this week, performing the first uterus transplant in the U.S. during a nine-hour surgical procedure.
The following health IT vendor contracts and go-lives were announced in the past week.
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We've all gotten random emails from undisclosed scammers who claim you've won $1 million or a free trip to the Bahamas — all you have to do is enter your bank account information. But soon you may be getting those…
As we head into the weekend, look no further than this list for a thought-provoking, entertaining and meaningful soundtrack to a run, walk, drive or deserved kick-back.