We are seeing a fundamental shift in healthcare delivery from sick care to whole person care. The increasing emphasis on wellness and the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care is an opportunity to help populations focus on prevention and holistic care. Moreover, most of a patient’s health journey occurs outside the hospital, with 80 percent… Read More »
The Oregon Department of Human Services is notifying 350,000 individuals after learning that nine employees fell victim to a phishing attack. The attack occurred on January 8, the state department believes, and on January 28, a cybersecurity team confirmed the breach had occurred. After stopping unauthorized access to email boxes, the department now is reviewing… Read More »
(Reuters Health) – That nifty new health app you downloaded to your phone to keep track of your meds might be sharing your information with a host of unrelated companies, some of which have nothing to do with healthcare, a new study finds. When researchers ran two dozen medication apps through their paces using a… Read More »
For years, Johnson & Johnson and the Pfizer-Astellas team have been the only players in their class of prostate-cancer fighters. But Bayer is waiting in the wings, and stellar new safety data could make it a threat. The German drugmaker trumpeted phase 3 data Thursday on its androgen receptor antagonist candidate, darolutamide, showing that the drug… Read More »
Fitbits are putting a strain on doctors ‘because the exercise trackers are incorrectly telling wearers they are ILL’ Health apps are blamed for the potential ‘dystopian’ scenario facing the NHS The warning features in a report from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges It said an inordinate number of patients visit their doctor because of… Read More »
Even as healthcare organizations contemplate moving more computing functions to the cloud, IT execs question the security of their data. A survey from the Cloud Security Alliance, which works to ensure a secure cloud computing environment, found 69 percent of respondent organizations are migrating data for enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud, with nearly… Read More »