Nate Couture, chief information security officer of the Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network, said rural hospitals’ compensation for cybersecurity talent is much lower than other industries, making it harder to fill roles, GovInfoSecur…
Hospital and health system CIOs, who are responsible for overseeing the operation of IT departments, are taking on more responsibilities and are increasingly becoming strategic business leaders, which in turn is getting them promoted to CEO and preside…
A former nurse practitioner in Eagle River, Alaska, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after being convicted of overprescribing millions of opioid painkillers to about 450 patients, including five who died, according to a June 15 Anchorage Dai…
Ophthalmologist David Aizuss, MD, was elected as secretary of the American Medical Association board of trustees.
ChatGPT, the AI-based chatbot developed by OpenAI, was released in November and has already been showing promising results for the healthcare industry; it was recently found to have been successful at selecting the correct medical diagnosis 39 percent …
Health IT company Capital Technology Information Services has agreed to pay the U.S. $1.7 million to resolve claims that it billed the National Institutes of Health for “unallowable” reimbursement costs.
Insider threats, which include healthcare employees who abuse their access rights to steal patient data to commit identity theft and financial fraud, have affected three hospitals and health systems.
MercyOne, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is facing a lawsuit for a May data breach in which an unauthorized party accessed its network, compromising the protected health information of 20,000 patients, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported June 15.
All 21 members of an FDA committee voted to urge development of an XBB-targeted COVID-19 vaccine during a June 15 panel.
A patient suffered a nonfatal self-inflicted firearm injury in HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce on June 14, according to local authorities.
