By Art Gross – Business email compromise (BEC) scams remain one of the most widely used attack vectors among cybercriminals to date. In fact, cybercriminals are finding so much success in exploiting human vulnerabilities through BEC scams that their frequencies have been dramatically increasing.
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By William A. Hyman – The latest final rule release on physician payments is replete with assertions of burden reduction and cost savings. Without various addenda, the rule comes in at a mere 2378 pages, 2063 for the discussion and 315 for the rule itself.
The Office of the Chief Technology Officer within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a contract launching a formal research project focused on health IT modernization at the Indian Health Service (IHS).
By Marty Callahan – The way payer trends are developing, you can expect your 2019 to be a year defined by denials. Last year, the Advisory Board’s biennial survey on revenue cycle found a median 350-bed hospital was likely to lose $3.5 million to increased denials writeoffs over the previous four years.
By Don Rucker MD & Talisha Searcy – Today, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals have adopted certified health IT. New data show that this momentum continues with the introduction of the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria…
New CTO Talk episode NOW on Demand with host Matt Ferrari. Matt talks to Heidi Dohse, the Senior Program Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences for Google Cloud where she’s pouring her passion for data and healthcare into the Google Cloud Platform.
By William Hersh MD – Exactly 20 years ago, I organized a panel at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium that attracted so large an audience that the crowd spilled out of the room into the hallway.
As we close out October and Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we asked some of our friends and industry experts to tell us something we should take away and always remember throughout the year.
By William A. Hyman – One feature of EHRs is the ability to provide prompts to clinicians about the care being provided to their patients. Such prompts, generally called Clinical Decision Support are usually driven by practice guidelines or derived from AI efforts.