Sun.Aug 13, 2023

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Top 7 Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities for Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Pat Hurley, VP and General Manager, Americas at Acronis The protected health information (PHI) entrusted to healthcare providers is more valuable than credit card numbers to cyber criminals. Why? Because medical records contain a cache of sensitive information. Healthcare attacks are a hot commodity for nefarious actors since that data can easily be monetized through fraudulent billing, blackmail, filing false tax returns for rebates, and ordering prescription medication and medical devices.

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Quotation of the day: On technological progress

Healthcare ECONOMIST

You’re mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. And actually it will, I think, by itself degrade actually. If you look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt and they’re able to make the pyramids and they forgot how to do that and the Romans they bought these incredible aqueducts they forgot how to do it.

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Clinical Fatigue + Healthcare Attention Fatigue

Healthcare Leadership

August 13 th is the anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale – British nurse, statistician, infection preventionist, social reformer, and patient advocate. At the end of her life, she was bedridden for several years, but she did not let that stop her from her campaign to improve health standards. Although she was never officially diagnosed, many scholars and medical historians believe she suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, ME/CFS).

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Monday Morning Update 8/14/23

HIStalk

Top News HHS’s Office for Civil Rights launches a federal.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Morning Headlines 8/14/23

HIStalk

CMA provisionally clears UnitedHealth’s proposed £1.2bn purchase of EMIS The.

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