You scan the form letter with dread: Yep, it's happened again. Your hospital data was compromised. The letter may specify what was targeted (Social Security number, name, address, email), but ...

CHICAGO - As much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, according to healthcare IT experts. Eighty percent of data is in unstructured text, said John Halamaka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, ...

As hospitals and health systems look to improve revenue cycle management performance, they can gain a myriad of insights through data analytics. By using data analytics, an organization can pinpoint ...

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is releasing data on the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative through the Research and Data Assistance Center. ResDAC collected data from November 27, ...

Hospitals are in the crosshairs: As collectors of some of the most personal and sensitive data available, hospitals are a prime target for hackers and cyberattacks. With potential regulatory penalties ...

Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the ...

Your medical information is a hot commodity. Hospitals and health apps aren't keeping it secret. Can you do something about it? Reading time 5 minutes Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the 886-bed hospital ...

It’s widely known that artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping the healthcare industry. Hospitals have used AI in a variety of ways, from streamlining workflows to aiding in bedside ...

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies ...

Financial distress among rural hospitals in the US has increased in recent years. Using national hospital data, we investigated how the decline in profitability has affected hospital survival, either ...

Commercial health plans pay higher prices than public payers for hospital care, which accounts for more than 5 percent of US gross domestic product. Crafting effective policy responses requires ...