It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Allscripts, the $1.5 billion medical technology and services firm, hosts a number of cloud based applications that doctors and hospitals use to run their operations. Hancock Health, that I wrote about on Monday, is one of their clients according to HealthcareITNews. About a week ago Allscripts was hit with a ransomware attack caused by the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what may be the first of its kind event, the FDA recalled a pacemaker from St Jude, now owned by Abbott Labs. Researchers discovered the flaws prior to Abbott’s acquisition of St. Jude and reported them to both the FDA and St. Jude. Both decided to do nothing about it until the researchers went […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We usually think of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as smart light bulbs or door locks or cameras, but there are some IoT devices that are a little bigger and a lot more expensive. In this case, it is a multi-million dollar Cat Scanner that hospitals and imaging centers use to create diagnostic images. Siemens […]
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