Morning Headlines 12/9/24
HHS OCR fines Children’s Hospital Colorado $548,000 for HIPAA breaches involving phishing and cyberattacks.
New Dashboard to Track Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm
The HHS National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety develops an online patient and healthcare workforce safety dashboard incorporating hospital data from CMS and AHRQ, with plans to expand to clinic and nursing home data.
Kareo is Now Tebra – Website Transition Effective December 5
Ambulatory health IT vendor Kareo, which merged with PatientPop in 2021, officially takes on the Tebra brand name.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.