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HealthITSecurity.com | February 27, 2020

Last week, NRC Health became the latest vendor to report it fell victim to a ransomware attack, which locked the company out of its computer systems as it worked to recover. Given its massive list of healthcare clients, the cyberattack could become a massive data breach. NRC Health sells software to about 9,000 healthcare organizations, or about 75 percent of the 200 largest hospital chains in the US. Its clients include Cedars Sinai, Adventist Health, Providence Health, and a host of others, ac...

UC hospital system | May 05, 2020

The University of California's (UC's) hospital system has started to gradually resume elective procedures that have been canceled due to COVID-19. The five-hospital system is the latest to explore how to safely restart procedures that are vital to hospitals’ bottom line. Each UC hospital will have to abide by 10 principles that range from preparation for new outbreaks to expanding testing and screening of patients, the system said in a letter (PDF). “After exten...

HIT Consultant | February 10, 2020

CitiusTech, a leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption across healthcare organizations. As a Google Cloud partner, CitiusTech will enable medical technology companies, providers, payers, and life sciences organizations to modernize their mission-critical IT by integrating digital solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). CitiusTech now has a practice focused on GCP tha...

Managed Healthcare Executive | January 13, 2020

Early into 2020, the phrase “20/20 vision” is a trending tagline, but for the health care space, this play on words is fitting. Innovators, investors, industry leaders, analysts, and providers are coming together with a clear vision on how to disrupt the industry and bring about meaningful change. This thought-provoking dialogue comes back to one collective theme: humanize and transform the health care system with a more holistic, outcome-based approach. Progress begins with a shift ...