Bonus Features – April 30, 2023 – 68% of providers say improving patient collections is a high priority, hospital expenses have increased 2x the Medicare IPPS reimbursement rate since 2019, and more

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies Compared to other industries, healthcare is leading the way in improving networks to support edge computing, according to the latest AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report. Budgets for edge computing go into four buckets – strategy, networks, security, and applications – and healthcare is putting nearly one-third of its edge computing spending into networks. While this investment is helping to converge on-premises networks, it does leave less to spend on network security, which is a worrying sign. Healthcare risk management company Censinet, KLAS Research, and the American Hospital Association (AHA) published their inaugural Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study. The study found that organizations are doing well when it comes to email security but face gaps when it comes to medical device security and supply chain risk management. Overall, the study concluded, organizations are still taking a reactive and not a proactive approach to cybersecurity. Syntellis and the AHA reported that hospital expenses increased 17.5% from 2019 to 2022 – or m...
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