Morning Headlines 4/18/22

Effectiveness of Email Warning on Reducing Hospital Employees’ Unauthorized Access to Protected Health Information

A JAMA-published study finds that sending warning emails to professional staff who were detected by monitoring technology inappropriately accessing patient EHR information reduced repeat incidents by 95%.

Mental health startup Ahead got behind

Virtual ADHD treatment provider Ahead, which launched in 2019, announces it will shut down after raising $9 million.

Furious patients hit out as doctors’ chief dismisses concerns about the difficulties of getting face-to-face GP appointments as ‘a lot of noise’

In England, the president of the Royal College of GPs – who holds an ownership stake in a telehealth technology vendor – takes heat for saying in a conference that the most positive development of the pandemic was a huge boost in telehealth.