A new report in The Wall Street Journal details a cyberattack that may, a lawsuit alleges, have caused the first fatality linked to ransomware in the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS The ransomware attack that targeted Mobile, Alabama-based Springhill Medical Center in July 2019 knocked the hospital’s IT systems offline for…
Cerner nets $134M to continue deploying EHR at VA centers
The Department of Veterans Affairs has allocated $134 million to Cerner to continue deploying its electronic health record at VA medical centers. According to reporting from Fed Health IT and GovConWire, the contract was awarded under Cerner’s Electronic Health Record Modernization indefinite quantity agreement, as part of an 18-month task…
Ransomware attack on Georgia health system endangers info of 1.4M patients
A ransomware attack discovered by St. Joseph’s/Candler earlier this summer has compromised the records of 1.4 million patients. The Savannah, Georgia-based health system published a notice this month about the incident, which took its network offline for multiple days. “Through SJ/C’s investigation it was determined that the incident…
Vocera to buy PatientSafe Solutions, with eye toward small and mid-sized hospitals
Vocera to buy PatientSafe Solutions, with eye toward small and mid-sized hospitals Its addition will boost its ability to combine secure messages, nurse calls, checklists and other notifications within the electronic health record at the point of care. Vocera Communications on Thursday announced its acquisition of San Diego-based PatientSafe Solutions….
Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020
At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. – and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians…
Not all EHR use measures are created equally, study finds
A paper published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that vendors vary in their development maturity of outpatient EHR use measures. Although Epic, Cerner and Allscripts have developed EHR use measures in client-available platforms, researchers found that athenahealth’s are still in development, and eClinicalWorks…
SPECIAL REPORT: Kuwait’s digital transformation journey
“At the moment the majority of healthcare services are provided by the public sector and Kuwait’s Vision 2035 is to diversify and also make the private sector a key player in providing health services to everybody,” explains Dr Dari Alhuwail, assistant professor at Kuwait University. Digital health transformation is a…
Savience Limited and HSL Telehealth partner to launch ‘one click’ virtual clinic service
A collaboration between clinic-management specialists Savience Limited and healthcare IT solution firm HSL Telehealth has created a new secure virtual clinic service. By integrating the virtual clinic module from Savience’s Clarity system with HSL’s shared conferencing and collaboration network, the service allows clinicians to organise a remote outpatient’s consultation by…
Tech heavyweights, others call on HHS to release info blocking rules
More than two dozen of healthcare organizations and technology companies sent an open letter this past week to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget, urging them to quickly finalize rules allowing application programming interface access to patient records. The letter, signed…
Depression in physicians linked to medical errors, study shows
Physician depression has implications for the quality of care delivered by them and they are highly likely to report medical errors, according to a report based on an analysis of 11 studies involving more than 21,500 physicians. WHY IT MATTERS The University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor study,…
Alcidion launches Australia’s first mobile EMR app
Melbourne-based healthcare software solutions provider today launched Miya MEMRe, a mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR), which provides clinicians’ access to caseloads, critical issues and comprehensive patient records on the go. The app is the first locally developed solution of its type to offer full access to EMR data, and the…