Bonus Features – February 4, 2024 – 67% of healthcare pros say the top use case for AI is improving the digital front door, 78% of healthcare shift workers have trouble covering living expenses, plus 25 more stories

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 HHS released a set of Cybersecurity Performance Goals. There are 10 Essential Goals that set “a floor of safeguards,” such as multifactor authentication and data encryption, and 10 Enhanced Goals for maturing capabilities, such as network segmentation and configuration management. Hospitals ended 2023 on better financial footing than 2022, according to the latest Syntellis analysis. Operating margins were up 2.4% year over year, while outpatient revenue increased nearly 10%. Total expenses increased 3%, with labor costs rising just 0.7%. Medical device usability represents the top health IT hazard of 2024, according to the latest annual report from ECRI. Other hazards of note: Insufficient governance of AI, ransomware, and the misuse of patient data by web analytics software. The Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation and Pediatric Pandemic Network are holding a pitch competition for the development of Medical Countermeasures (MC) with up to $100,000 in federal grants to be awarded. Studies More than 1 in 4 (26%) of healthcare shift workers have at least one o...
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