Amazon Takes on Health Systems with New Care Management Program

Health Condition Programs, which was unveiled on January 8 during the JP Morgan Conference, gives the online retail giant a significant platform in the healthcare space—and another reason for healthcare executives to fret about competition from disruptors. The service gives consumers a virtual link to a personalized care team to help manage their health.

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Is Nurse Burnout Causing More Trips to the Emergency Room?

A recent study from the Columbia School of Nursing found two pieces of key information: A sizeable proportion of primary care nurse practitioners are burnt out, and primary care practices with higher rates of nurse practitioner burnout are seeing higher rates of older patients with chronic conditions receiving acute care.

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How to Use EHRs to Reduce Dangerous Drug-Drug Interactions

With the advent of EHRs and digital health technology, health systems are looking to reduce those interactions by pinpointing when they can occur and giving clinicians on-demand access to information to prevent them. But that technology depends on understanding how clinicians prescribe drugs and how they look for dangerous interactions.

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4 CMO Predictions for Healthcare in 2024

Healthcare organizations are facing a slew of challenges. Those challenges include workforce shortages that are straining the ranks of physicians and nurses and economic woes that threaten the operations of health systems, hospitals, and physician practices.

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Data Breach Costs NY Presbyterian $300K

According to the AG’s office, between 2016 and 2022 NYP used unvetted third-party tracking pixels and tags on its website that sent visitors’ data back to vendors whenever the website loaded or when a visitor clicked a link, submitted a form, or ran a search.

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HHS Tells Health Systems: Get Serious About Cybersecurity

The six-page document builds off of the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, which was unveiled last March, and follows recent actions taken by federal agencies to boost security, including the release of healthcare-specific practices and training resources, guidance on medical device security from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and new telehealth guidelines from the HHS Office of Civil Rights.

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