May 2nd 2024
In the world of health care, factors such as remote care, complex IT environments, and connected health care devices are creating new avenues for cybercriminals to target.
Can remote patient monitoring enhance your practice?
March 8th 2023“[The ability of] remote patient monitoring to provide targeted clinical information to physicians and elevate critical information for review and earlier intervention is enhancing patient communication and care delivery,” said Jim Brown, MD.
Prior paid malpractice claims linked to increased risk of future claims
February 22nd 2023Based on 5- and 10-year study periods, physicians with single or multiple paid medical malpractice claims “were shown to have a greatly elevated risk of having additional paid claims during a future period,” the authors wrote.
Study shows how improperly using race in medical decision-making increases disparities
February 15th 2023The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, investigated whether ascribing racial differences in health to genetics or culture rather than social conditions is associated with race-based practice.
Report: Health care industry faces highest cybersecurity risk
February 13th 2023“Lack of budget, remotely shared personal data between patients and hospital systems, and outdated software all point to avenues for hackers to infiltrate and gain access to health-related sensitive data,” the report stated.
Dr. Amy and Dr. Michelle Pearlman on the business of medicine
February 3rd 2023“In medicine, we're not taught the business of medicine, but the day that you become faculty at an institution or private practice, you learn that it is a business, but yet nowhere in our training are we taught that,” says Michelle Pearlman, MD.