Morning Headlines 4/7/23
VA’s new EHR ‘not ready’ for next go-live, extending pause in rollouts
The VA postpones its Oracle Cerner go-live at VA Saginaw Health Care that was planned for June, saying that the software isn’t ready for the next wave of deployments.
Microsoft, hospital group use court order to disrupt ransomware attacks aimed at health sector
Microsoft, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and software firm Fortra obtain a court order that allows Microsoft to seize the Internet infrastructure that Russia-based ransomware hackers use to launch healthcare attacks.
Wisconsin Supreme Court: Health care systems cannot charge fees for electronic records
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that Ciox inappropriately billed a UW Health patient $110 for giving her an electronic copy of her medical records.
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