Compliance & Legal

The e-prescribing giant says the Federal Trade Commission's complaint shouldn't be reviewed in federal court because it relies on several factual errors.

More than half of hospitals say they've had one or more data breaches caused by third-party vendors in the past two years, with an average cost of $2.9 million per incident – but too many are still failing to do adequate risk assessments.

Google, the University of Chicago Medical Center and University of Chicago are listed as defendants in a class action suit that alleges they failed to properly de-identify sensitive patient medical data.

The agency warns that older MiniMed devices – which have been recalled by Medtronic – could be hacked and remotely controlled, adding to the list of cyber concerns for IoT devices.

While most orgs surveyed said they have network access solutions to monitor devices connected to the network, fewer than half of small providers use network segmentation to control the spread of infections.

Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7 International, says FHIR has been remarkable in its ability to scale, while resonating across communities of interest such as patient access and genomics.

The HIMSS EHR Association tells the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that the Promoting Interoperability Program needs consistency and specificity in its clinical requirements.

In healthcare, there is a need to improve the speed to an answer without affecting the quality of the answer, says Nigel Hughes, scientific director at Janssen Clinical Innovation.

Among other things, the technology has helped the hospital achieve a $3 million reconciliation payment annually for one CMS bundle alone.