Remove Hospital IT Remove Leadership Remove Medicare
article thumbnail

The Healthcare Cybersecurity Ecosystem: A System in Need of Comprehensive Care

Healthcare IT Today

The lapse didnt just hit hospitals; it disrupted insurers, pharmacies, providers, and patients nationwide. Consider Change Healthcare breach or the mass exploitation event related to a vulnerability in MOVEit, which affected nearly a million active Medicare beneficiaries. This breach shows how far the ripples reach.

article thumbnail

Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to say out loud what we all know to be true—that the way we reimburse ambulatory clinicians under Medicare is fundamentally broken and in need of a major structural overhaul.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships.

EHR 122
article thumbnail

How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

care innovations

Keeping hospital admissions to a minimum. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. We're not trying to push as much volume through a hospital,” Marcus says. “At Improving general employee satisfaction.

article thumbnail

Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

If you consider its leadership team (led by surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande) and Amazon’s yearslong gesturing toward healthcare and previous comments by Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett, some clues come into focus. KPMG’s Shehata views Haven’s leadership hirings as proof that it’s taking data concerns seriously.

Nursing 40
article thumbnail

150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The organizations featured on this list offer benefits and opportunities for employees to build successful careers above and beyond the average healthcare provider or company; they encourage professional development and promote leadership from within. Christ Hospital Health Network (Cincinnati).