Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Data-blocking antitrust lawsuit against Epic can move forward, judge rules
Epic’s attempt to have a lawsuit filed by startup Particle Health dismissed was unsuccessful. However, a U.S. district court judge narrowed the claims and rejected accusations that Epic engaged in defamation.
Primary care providers embrace AI-generated imaging results explanations
Stanford Health Care has developed an electronic health record-integrated tool for helping draft comments on radiology, pathology and lab findings.
Hackers inside hospital network for two months expose 140K people
Aspire Rural Health System, a three-hospital system in Michigan, said it was unaware that its network had been compromised. An investigation revealed that hackers gained access to protected health information, including patient charts.
Radiology department adopts new incidental findings approach that’s closing cases at a 99% clip
Researchers with Northwestern University in Chicago detailed their novel system in an analysis published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
HHS announces crackdown on providers failing to share radiology results, other info
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the agency to increase resources dedicated to curbing the “harmful practice of information blocking.”

FTC fines BetterHelp $7.8M, says the company 'betrayed' users for profit

BetterHelp is in hot water after the Federal Trade Commission slapped the online counseling service company with a $7.8 million fine and a proposed ban from sharing consumers’ health data.

No need for updated imaging prior to major surgery in some cases, new data show

Prior chest imaging can sometimes be just as predictive of adverse events after surgery as updated imaging, according to new data set to be presented at the annual conference of the American College of Cardiology on March 5.

New ransomware threat with ties to Russia targets healthcare providers

The "prolific" ransomware group Clop is associated with Russia and has managed to breach some major healthcare systems.

Closing the loop and settling rare clinical disagreements between radiologists at the same institution

Oftentimes, these deviations can occur informally, but experts believe careful documentation is needed to resolve them in a timely fashion.

Regional One hit by data breach

Reventics, a revenue cycle management company and a business associate of Regional One Health, detected a cyber-intruder who accessed the company’s servers in December 2022.

Researchers building ‘commonsense AI’ from baby’s mind up

The project may inform theories of human neurodevelopment as dynamically as it advances computer and data science.

Rankings of radiology IT solutions by end-users in the 2023 Best in KLAS program

End-users of various radiology IT systems offer their assessment of the software in the annual KLAS Research 2023 Best in KLAS report.

KLAS 2023 rankings for cardiovascular information systems and hemodynamic solutions

Hospital end-users ranked the CVIS and hemodynamic systems they are using and shed light on their working relationships with IT vendors.

Health IT

Data-blocking antitrust lawsuit against Epic can move forward, judge rules

Primary care providers embrace AI-generated imaging results explanations

Hackers inside hospital network for two months expose 140K people

Radiology department adopts new incidental findings approach that’s closing cases at a 99% clip

HHS announces crackdown on providers failing to share radiology results, other info