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By Shannon Barnet for Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality The Leapfrog Group has recognized 98 hospitals as Top Hospitals on its 2015 list, up from 94 hospitals in 2014 and 90 in 2013. The list recognizes organizations that performed at the highest national levels in quality and safety. All total, more than 1,600 hospitals…
By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News Ransomware attacks and tools are on the rise and perhaps more so than has been widely understood thus far. The gist: Hackers crack into a network via malicious URLs or malware, find data they can encrypt with relatively low-cost tools, and then demand either money or Bitcoins to return it.…
By Susan Chapman for For The Record Whether delivered face to face or remotely, requests are more apt to receive a response if they’re delivered within a physician’s workflow. There are different ways in which physicians are queried to ensure patient health records are complete. Most facilities employ onsite clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams that are…
Sharing documentation best practices is a win-win for healthcare stakeholders. By Bonnie Bakal for Advanced Healthcare for Health Information Professionals One of my all-time favorite song lyrics is from Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up and goes: “I am strong when I am on your shoulders, You raise me up to more than I can…
By Niam Yaraghi for Brookings While patients may hugely benefit from having access to their own medical records, many hospitals and physicians are still very reluctant to provide patients with a copy of their records. Although taxpayers have partly paid for the majority of hospitals to adopt electronic health records systems, which reduce the cost…
By Carrie Pallardy for Health IT & CIO Review Data breaches are costly events – with an average price tag of $3.8 million each according to a Ponemon Institute report – and healthcare is a prime target. The bulk of data breach media coverage focuses on the aftermath – the cost and pursuant lawsuits –…
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Healthcare Info Security Hospital Executive Falsified ‘Meaningful Use’ Attestation A former Texas hospital CFO has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for submitting false documents so a medical center could receive payments under the HITECH Act electronic health records financial incentive program. In addition to his prison sentence,…
Tom Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare IT News We saw with the Sony hack that when attackers find health data they’re likely to steal it The Pentagon confirmed late Thursday that Russian hackers penetrated the Defense Department’s IT networks and gained access to Joint Chiefs of Staff email servers. As has become the norm for government and…
by Reuters and Associated Press Found on NBCNews.com University of California (UCLA) Health, which runs four hospitals in the university’s campuses, said its computer systems had been hacked and that data on as many as 4.5 million individuals could have been exposed. UCLA Health said on Friday it was working with the FBI and private…
By Tulsi Patil for KTUU.com ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison Monday for violations to medical privacy laws, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler’s office announced in a press release. According to prosecutors, 33-year-old Stacy Laulu was a financial counselor at Providence Hospital in March, 2013 when she was contacted…