Haven Healthcare is soon to be no more. The high-aiming and deep-pocketed venture confirmed its dissolution Jan. 4 in comments to numerous consumer outlets.

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Almost a quarter of surveyed physicians say they’ve been personally attacked on social media or by other online means. That’s men and women alike, and in about equal ratios. …

Hospitals are favorite hostages of cybercriminals wielding ransomware. A key reason is healthcare providers’ willingness to pay ransom in exchange for the release of their mission-critical information systems…

HHS has published its updated and finalized health IT strategic plan for the next five years. If everything goes according to its authors’ vision, healthcare consumers will finally be using their smartphones to…

More than a week after protectively disconnecting all online systems in the U.S. following a Sept. 27 cyberattack, a multistate, two-nation health system is coming back online.…

Five-hospital Inova Health System based in Falls Church, Virginia, was among the clients of Blackbaud, a fundraising service supplier, affected by a ransomware attack against Blackbaud in May.…

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.  

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Health and Human Services is making $2.5 million in funding available in a bid to boost health information exchange during this and future public health crises, the agency announced Wednesday.

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The largest health system in the smallest state has agreed to pay $1,040,000 to HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

The…

Nearly 90% of executives leading medical-technology companies see emerging technologies as a top challenge. And they’re struggling to apply these advances not only to their product and service lines but also to…

Hospitals and other provider institutions are in an intensified battle of wits with cybercriminals looking to milk the COVID crisis for all it’s worth.

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Nearly half of people are using technology to communicate with their primary care provider, according to new research. But many aren’t on the same page when it comes to discussing health tech itself.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have created the first risk prediction model that allows healthcare providers to find the likelihood of an individual patient testing positive for COVID—19, as well as possible outcomes from the virus…

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the…

Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, has expanded its virtual support services for mental and emotional health by adding Talkspace to its behavioral provider network.

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The number of record breaches containing sensitive information is on the rise across multiple business sectors, including healthcare, according to a new…

The hotly anticipated Apple–Google COVID-19 contact tracing technology is tiptoeing closer to its promised May release. When it gets…

Last week Apple and Google jointly announced a Bluetooth platform for tracing contacts of people testing positive with COVID-19. The tech world has been buzzing ever since.…

Healthcare organizations are a top target for cyberattacks, more so than any other industry, according to the latest Beazley Breach Briefing.

In fact, 35% of attacks targeted healthcare, compared to…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is jumping in to help curb the spread of COVID-19 with a new Diagnostic…

Saykara, a Seattle-based healthcare technology company, has launched a new AI-powered solution for documenting physician-patient conversations.

The solution was designed to “…