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NewsHospitals face provider, patient opposition to evidence-based care
Healthcare leaders have been touting evidence-based care to improve our nation's healthcare system as more hospitals and providers use algorithms to identify potentially high-cost patients, reports Read more...
Medical records for 1.7 million people stolen from van
In one of the larger medical data thefts reported, personal health data for about 1.7 million New York City patients, hospital staffers and others was stolen on Dec. 23 from an unlocked van in Read more...
Hospital IT worker jailed for abusing co-worker data
A former employee at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of his Read more...
Case study: KY hospital ED cuts patient wait times in half
King's Daughters Medical Center, a 385-bed regional hospital in Ashland, KY, has pulled off a trick many of its peers would envy. The not-for-profit cut its emergency department's length of stay from Read more...
Seattle health system will pay $100K HIPAA fine
A Seattle-based health system has agreed to pay a $100,000 HIPAA fine--as well as improve its medical data security--after failing to properly secure data backup tapes, disks and laptops. During 2005 Read more...
| Press ReleaseseMix to be Focus of Radiologists’ Talk at RSNAPodium Presentation Will Focus on Physicians’ Experience of Cloud-Based Sharing of Medical Data Sharing SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The benefits of using a cloud-based service to share medical Read more >> 56 Million U.S. Consumers Access Medical Information from Electronic Health RecordsManhattan Research’s Cybercitizen Health® U.S. Study Explores How Digital is Evolving the Patient-Physician Relationship – Webinar October 20 at 2pm ET NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 56 million U.S. Read more >> New Leader for CyttaConnect™ Medical Monitoring eHealth DivisionLOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytta Corp. (OTCQB: CYCA), leading the way to cost effective health care, is pleased to announce the appointment of Erik Stephansen to President of its Read more >> Smart cards, mobile telephony and M2M at the heart of e-health servicesPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Smart security technologies (security and respect for private life) are crucial to improving the quality of care and patient comfort, but also in the fight against fraud and Read more >> First Client Installation of CyttaConnect™ Medical Monitoring SystemLOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytta Corp (OTCQB: CYCA) is pleased to announce that we have now successfully completed the first client installation and deployment of our remote medical Read more >> |
