The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is creating a voluntary privacy framework that will help organizations find better ways to protect individuals’ private information in an age of new technology.

Providers at Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) in Marshfield, Wisconsin, utilized existing DICOM infrastructure to build software that improved its non-radiology imaging quality, access and costs, according to a study published Sept. 4 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Most system breaches that expose protected health information stem from internal actors, according to Verizon’s 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.

With PACS as with any healthcare-specific technology, some universal expectations are common to all end-users and their IT support teams. Yet there are also as many unique sets of preferences as there are PACS stakeholders.

Three Mississippi hospitals and their parent company have filed for bankruptcy—identifying electronic health record (EHR) costs and declining revenues as primary reasons.

Basic electronic health record (EHR) systems aren’t driving physicians away from medicine, according to researchers with the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Centra Health’s new electronic health record (EHR) system that will keep track of more than 300,000 patients is expected to go live Saturday, Sept. 1, according to a report by WDBJ7.

Texas Children’s Hospital has fired a nurse after she posted information about a child testing positive for measles to Facebook. The woman commented about the child’s symptoms in a group dedicated to so-called “anti-vaxxers,” who question the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations.