Less than a week before Christmas day, St Vincent’s Health, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care providers, detected a breach in its IT system. On 19 December, it responded to the incident by immediately containing the hack and informing relevant authorities. Two days later, it found that hackers had “removed some data”

The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care will be focusing on several initiatives that will raise the digital capabilities of the Australian health system.  It recently released its Digital Health Blueprint for the next ten years, outlining the government’s vision for digital health: “trusted, timely and accessible use of digital and data underpins a personalised

Access to providers is a challenge across healthcare. The industry faces severe provider shortages – exacerbated by a terrible burnout problem. This is not news. But finding successful solutions to access problems is. And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. Three components to the program The health system’s Virtual

Before the implementation of Epic’s MyChart patient portal, Parkview Health System faced several challenges in patient engagement and communication. Patients often found it difficult to access their health records, leading to a lack of transparency and engagement in their healthcare journeys. This gap in communication sometimes resulted in missed appointments, medication nonadherence, and a general

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. Telemedicine is too important now to take for granted. To get a look ahead at what this new year may have in store for telehealth, Healthcare

Doctors at Englewood Health in New Jersey are using the Ion endoluminal system from Intuitive Surgical to take tissue biopsies from the hard-to-reach outer third of the lung to identify early-stage lung cancer. WHY IT MATTERS Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy offers stability and greater precision over traditional bronchoscopy, according to Dr. David Shiu, chief of pulmonary medicine

The Government Accountability Office has completed its review of cybersecurity in medical devices under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 and recommended the commissioner of food and drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency update their agencies’ medical device cybersecurity coordination agreement. WHY IT

The New York State Attorney General on Wednesday announced a major new settlement around one health system’s use of privacy-violating online pixel technology. WHY IT MATTERS NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will pay $300,000 for its use of third-party tools that disclosed the protected health information of people who visited its website, New York AG Letitia James said

The American Hospital Association had four areas of comments for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on the proposed federal rule to establish disincentives for providers found to have committed information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act. WHY IT MATTERS According to

This past year was a pivotal one for artificial intelligence in healthcare, of course, with healthcare provider organizations participating in significant new developments that promise to transform healthcare delivery in the years to come. The coming year promises to introduce new layers of technological and regulatory nuance as policymakers and healthcare organizations grow more sophisticated