Quality and Safety
The cyber risk platform Black Kite released a new report this week finding that one in 10 global pharmaceutical manufacturers are at a high risk of suffering a ransomware attack.
Although the agency did not explicitly refer to any specific brand of electronics, its news release linked to several articles about magnets in the iPhone 12.
Meanwhile, Ireland's national health service is continuing to grapple with outages of its own following a ransomware incident.
At least five healthcare providers were affected by the incident, which occurred in February.
Researchers from West Virginia University have set out to determine the optimal frequency of telehealth appointments for patients with chronic conditions.
Deep Dive: HIMSS is celebrating 60 years of innovating to "reform the global health ecosystem."
In Wyoming, an employee accidentally uploaded COVID-19 test results to a public-facing website, while Pennsylvania faced trouble with a third-party contact-tracing vendor.
Philips IGT CMO Dr. Atul Gupta says innovations include digitally streaming application specialists into the operating room.
The report found that healthcare was one of the industries most affected by tracked ransomware incidents in 2020, second only to education.
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Antoinette Thomas, chief patient experience officer for Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses three things healthcare systems need to focus on as they move forward with their digital transformation.