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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Looking at the threat landscape and the impact an incident could have at AHG, in 2019, we had our first cybersecurity incident," Jimenez recalled. Hackers have been taking advantage of the national crisis, creating COVID-19 fraud schemes and phishing attacks. The COVID-19 pandemic did not slow down hackers.

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nine in 10 of them, in fact, are offering or piloting telehealth programs, according to the new 2019 HIMSS report, "Telehealth: Disrupting the Care Delivery Paradigm." hospital or health system where they work, 64% said they offer inpatient specialist consultation, and 61% said they offer remote patient monitoring.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. The Bottom Line In 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported 467,361 complaints at a cost of $3.5 Within 12 hours, every piece of technology connected to that network, and every process needed to conduct daily operations, is paralyzed. billion.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

A July 2019 FDA warning stated that an unauthorized party “could potentially connect wirelessly to a nearby MiniMed insulin pump and change the pump’s settings” harming the patient by either overdelivering or underdelivering insulin.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2019, Fitbit unveiled a more data-driven personal health subscription service for consumers that, among other features, generates personal reports that a user can download and share with their physician, nutritionist or personal trainer.

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Weekender 2/1/19

HIStalk Weekender

KLAS releases “Best in KLAS 2019”. One couple paid a hospital its indigent care rate in cash, then hit Beverly Hills for a shopping spree at Rolex and Louis Vuitton. Harris Healthcare’s Iatric Systems acquires Haystack Informatics. The VA ends its pilot of Epic scheduling and will instead implement Cerner at all facilities.