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Amazon furthers foothold in digital pharmacies with launch of Amazon Pharmacy store

Patients will be able to compare medication brands and get prescriptions delivered to their home.

The medical community offers congratulations, advice to President-elect Joe Biden

Professional health organizations make statements on the new administration.

University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

As part of the new Patient Experience Digital Series, two clinicians explain how a virtual care model is helping more compassionately treat patients in their home communities while improving the provider experience.

Brigham and Women’s uses crowdsourcing tech to take aim at everyday problems

Group of masked people holding salad bowls.
The Boston health system’s Digital Innovation Hub has spearheaded a new way to get all staff to contribute ideas. Many of those ideas are already in play and proving successful.

Aetna, city of New Haven hit with OCR fines after data breach

Aetna office
The fines are the latest effort on OCR’s part to enforce HIPAA regulations around protected health information.

FBI, HHS warn of ‘increased and imminent’ cyber threat to hospitals

With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.

Trump administration crackdown ‘couldn’t come at a worse time’ for hospitals

Hospital associations call the threat from CMS to withhold Medicare and Medicaid participation for non-compliant data reporting "reckless."

So you’ve been hit with a ransomware attack. What now?

With criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, security experts show how health systems can respond to a cyber crisis at the same time.

The business of health: Keeping the lights on through the pandemic and beyond

This special collection, which will be updated throughout the month, explores providers’ efforts to adjust to the new normal.

How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

At Ohio-based Harbor, telemedicine services are up 564% compared with 2019. From March to August this year, the provider treated 15,259 patients via remote consult with help from its Lighthouse Telehealth subsidiary.