Morning Headlines 3/29/17
Cyber Criminals Targeting FTP Servers to Compromise Protected Health Information
The FBI’s cyber division issues an alert warning healthcare organizations that hackers are targeting FTP servers operating in anonymous mode to access PHI and launch ransomware attacks.
Virtual System Works in Managing Diabetes for Hospital Patients
UCSF researchers piloting a centralized dashboard designed to help diabetes specialists monitor the glucose levels of hospitalized diabetes patients find that the new system led to a 39 percent decrease in hyperglycemic patients and decreased the number of hypoglycemic events from 40 to 15 over a 12 month period.
The American College of Physicians, written by ACP’s Medical Practice and Quality Committee discusses the need to reduce administrative burden being placed on physicians.
Leading Wisely: Better Executive Decision Support
Health Catalyst launches Leading Wisely, a near real-time executive decision support dashboard for healthcare leaders.
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