Baking in the basics: Hospital IT leaders outline ingredients for robust cybersecurity
The most important ingredients for any hospital's security program at first blush may seem quite simple: A mix of encryption here, a dash of employee education there, then sprinkle on security software, patching and incident response.However, without these tools, no hospital's security will ever be fully baked. That's something the IT leaders at Oklahoma-based Integris, Minneapolis' Fairview Health Services and Susquehanna Health in Pennsylvania know full well.
In this FierceHealthIT special report, IT leaders discuss their organizations' security culture, their greatest security challenges, how they are keeping employees educated and more. Special report
Telemedicine industry must embrace scrutiny to ensure quality
Research published earlier this week in JAMA Dermatology examining the accuracy and quality of services delivered by direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies caused quite a stir in the healthcare industry.In the study, researchers posed as dermatological patients for 62 clinical encounters. The authors found clinicians repeatedly missed major diagnoses, including syphilis, herpes and skin cancer, and did not ask relevant questions. Treatments sometimes were at odds with existing guidelines. Read more...
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