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

Healthcare IT Today

One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Preparation ahead of the mandatory deadline is crucial for success and ACOs with multiple EMRs will face unique challenges.

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Power of People. Pause and Trust. Lynne Becker

Society for Participatory Medicine

Lynne Becker: First, your observation about the EMR, the electronic medical records system, is correct. What’s even more insulting is that the school and the hospital were part of the CDC Heads Up program. They took her to urgent care, not to the children’s hospital. Electronic records, ICD codes, and Zebroids.

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