Yale New Haven Health has reported that a March data breach affected more than 5 million people. The health system said 5,556,702 people were impacted by the cyberattack in a report to the Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ data breach portal on April 11.
Congress needs to act to bring needed reforms into the 340B to make revenue from the drug pricing program more transparent and to ensure patients are benefitting from the discounts, according to a report released by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
Health systems need to change the care model for chronic illnesses that affect 80% of people nationwide, says Dan Shields, CEO of digital medicine at Ochsner Health.
The opportunities are endless as long as nurses are able to influence the direction in the way these technologies will be built and put into the environment, says Darren Batara, nursing innovation and informatics manager at Stanford Healthcare.
Blue Shield of California has sent notices out to its members warning that it may have unwittingly shared the protected health information of 4.7 million people with Google over a three-year period.
The American Hospital Association is throwing its support behind a house bill that seeks to revise reimbursement rates for long-term care hospitals.
The National Institutes of Health is launching an initiative to integrate patient medical record data for researchers to study the factors influencing autism, according to remarks given by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on April 21 in a Council of Councils meeting.
The FTC has finalized rules to significantly expand the information required for filing a pre-merger notification, says Michael Ramey, managing principal of Strategic & Transaction Solutions at PYA.
HIMSS mission is more about people than technology and its vision and mentors have helped her grow, says 2025 Changemaker Award recipient Surya Shenoy, regional clinical informatics consultant at Kaiser Permanente.
UVA Health Children’s in Charlottesville, Virginia is expanding its neonatal intensive care unit, nearly doubling the number of beds due to a rising need for newborn care in the area.