By Ben Steverman – Medicine is often considered part science and part art. There is a huge amount of content to master, but there is an equal amount of technique regarding diagnosis and delivery of service. To optimally succeed, care providers need to master both components.
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By Neal Evans PhD – Judging by the value of bitcoin, which recently topped $4k per bitcoin for the first time ever, interest in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology behind them is transitioning from underwhelming to euphoric.
By Sara Goldstein – Data breaches cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record. Heavily-regulated industries, like healthcare, tend to have per capita data breach costs substantially higher than the overall mean.
By Susan Biddle – In the all-out war for data, the healthcare industry is getting hit the hardest. Experian’s fourth annual 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast states that healthcare organizations will be the most targeted sector for attack, with new and sophisticated attacks emerging.
By Jeremy Guttman – Healthcare reform is very real. Only primary care practices who prepare now will be ready for big changes in reimbursement and quality metrics.
By William Hersh MD – A free continuing education course, Update in Health Information Technology: Healthcare Data Analytics, to physicians, nurses, other healthcare professionals, and health informatics/IT professionals. Registration is available now.
By Jeremy Guttman – Journalist Fareed Zakaria is certain that those who prevail in tomorrow’s health care arena are the ones who figure out how to use the troves of data at their fingertips to distinguish themselves from competitors. “[W]hat you do with that data will probably be the key differentiator going forward,” Zakaria explains .
By Steve Matheson – Cyber threats to healthcare data are a growing concern, as evidenced by the number of leading hospital C-level executives I met with recently during a closed-door session of hospital CIOs. Many were old acquaintances, but several of the new folks I’ve met had titles of CSO, Chief Security Officer.
By Richard Kronick PhD – As part of AHRQ’s mission to help the public understand and use health care data, I’m excited to announce the launch of a new Web tool that allows analysis of the latest State-by-State information on hospital discharges.