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Ransomware and Hacking Attempts against Healthcare Expected to Increase in Severity, Scope

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 21, 2016 and is republished here with permission. If it seems like news reports about hacking and ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations are on an uptick. The infamous Department of Health and Human Service’s “wall of shame” confirms this trend.…

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RSNA Attendance Remains Similar to Last Year’s Levels

By Mark Hagland for Healthcare Informatics As of Monday morning, advance registration at RSNA 2016 was 48,888—similar to last year’s advance total Attendance at the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which had been dipping in past years, saw a slight uptick this year, based on a preliminary estimate released by…

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Huge Study on Internet Gaming Addiction Turns Up Controversial Results

By David DiSalvo for Forbes Does internet gaming have the makings of a debilitating addiction like gambling? Most likely not, according to the biggest study to date seeking a link between internet gaming and addictive behavior. I doubt it’s exactly what the originators of the term “internet gaming disorder” hoped to find, but in a minute I’ll discuss why it’s probably what…

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Top Takeaways From the 2016 AHIMA Convention

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 1, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Attending the 2016 AHIMA Annual Convention and Exhibit in Baltimore, MD had its pros and cons. The pros: unbeatable networking opportunities and the chance to hear astronaut Captain Mark Kelly and former US…

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Specialty Societies Say EHR Vendors Are Blocking Their Registry Work

By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data are collected in registries, which are organized to track patients and their conditions and procedures…

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What Health Systems Need to Know Now About Secure Texting

By Arun Mirchandani for For The Record There has been a lot of talk recently about secure texting for medication and other types of medical orders. In the past several months, The Joint Commission announced that it was lifting—and then decided to delay lifting—its ban on texting orders while it works with the Centers for Medicare…

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Russian Hackers Breach Health Records of US Olympians

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on September 23, 2016 and is republished here with permission. The breach of Olympic athletes’ medical records by Russian hackers this week again demonstrates the vulnerability of protected health information and the extent to which it is viewed as a target by criminals.…

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1 in 2 Physicians Demoralized, Dissatisfied

By Staff for HealthLeaders Media News Medical doctors are largely overwhelmed by their work and disengaged from key healthcare reform measures such as value-based payments, accountable care organizations, and electronic health records, survey data shows. Half of physicians are disengaged, burned out, and demoralized and plan to either retire, cut back on work hours, or seek…

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