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81% Of Healthcare Organizations Have Been Compromised By Cyber-Attacks In Past 2 Years: KPMG Survey
Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey.
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B3 Group Awarded T4NG $22.3B IDIQ Contract at VA
B3 Group, Inc. (B3 Group) and its teammates (Team B3 Group) have been selected for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) multiple award Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Program Next Generation (T4NG) contract. B3 Group was one of twenty companies for a Prime contract, selected out of a pool of hundreds of bidders for the contract. This 10-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract enables the VA to acquire IT services in multiple Functional Areas, including...
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By 2050, Superbugs Will Kill 10 Million People A Year
A scourge is emerging across the rich and poor worlds alike, one that will claim 10 million lives a year by mid-century. Watch out for the “superbugs”—pathogens that even antibiotics can’t kill...
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EHR Implementation Still Costs Too Much
Hospitals have always had problems securing the initial down payment for electronic health record (EHR) implementation; a recently released poll from KPMG suggests that financing such projects remains an ongoing concern that promises to last throughout the implementation phase and beyond. Read More »
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Health Execs Uneasy About EHR Budgets, Survey Finds
About half the business administrators at hospitals or health systems who participated in a recent poll conducted by New York-based audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG said they're halfway or more done with deployment of their electronic health record system; 48 percent, however, said they're only somewhat comfortable with their organization's budget for doing so. Read More »
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Health Officials Axed Amid Probe For Improper Billing
Three top officials with the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. have been forced out amid a probe of improper billing for a $764 million revamp of its records system, The Post has learned. Chief Information Officer Bert Robles was forced to resign from his $296,000-a-year job in February while investigators were looking into allegations, including claims that his domestic partner received taxpayer-funded training on the new electronic medical records — even though she doesn’t even work for HHC.
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HHC Tech Leaders out amid Billing Probe of EMR Implementation
Four top leaders at New York City's Health and Hospitals Corp. have left the organization after an investigation into improper billing for a revamp of its electronic medical record system. Internal documents set the cost of the project at about $1.4 billion, which is nearly double the stated cost, according to a report from the New York Post.
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KPMG Healthcare Report, Open Data & Consumer Comparison Shopping
KPMG’s recently released report "Something to Teach, Something to Learn" revealed that while nearly all healthcare leaders accept that the way the industry works will change over the next five years, only a quarter of them are preparing to overhaul their business models. Read More »
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No Duh. EMR Implementation Costs Too Much
Courtesy of Information Week, we get the following news: apparently, EMRs cost too much. Stop the presses! Read More »
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Superbugs Will Kill 10 Million a Year by 2050
Healthcare experts have long warned drug-resistant superbugs are a "looming global threat," but left unchecked, they may kill someone every three seconds by 2050, according to a new report. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance began in 2014 and in the meantime, antibiotic-resistant infections have already wrought havoc, causing several outbreaks linked to contaminated scopes and proving potentially more deadly than cancer, according to experts...
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Surveys point to struggles in adoption of EHRs
Surveys are intended in part to give researchers a snapshot understanding of what is going on in a given part of society, or any single topic. Sometimes, though, it seems more productive to consider more than one survey at once in the name of getting at potentially broader implications.
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Why The Sony Hack Should Scare Feds
As the fallout from the unprecedented electronic attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment continues, cybersecurity experts said federal IT managers -- while likely facing no immediate threat from the group that attacked Sony -- should be paying close attention...
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World's First Mobile App For Complete Family Health Care Premieres In Austin
Medici, an Austin-based company with leadership from Johns Hopkins, Amazon, eBay, McKinsey, KPMG and others officially launches its health care service. Medici allows patients to securely text with their own doctor, vet, therapist and more through a HIPAA-compliant app. Offered first this week in Austin, Medici plans to extend the service to all of Texas this month and then release it nationally. Medici is safer and more compliant with the laws of states like Texas that have wrestled with services offering treatment with no established doctor-patient relationship, says Medici Founder and CEO Clinton Phillips...
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