Morning Headlines 8/1/14
Deadline for ICD-10 allows health care industry ample time to prepare for change
CMS confirms in a press release that the ICD-10 switchover will take place on October 1, 2015.
When ‘Hacktivists’ Target Your Hospital
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, Boston Children’s Hospital SVP/CIO Daniel Nigrin, MD discusses his experiences defending the hospital’s network against cyberattacks from the hacker group Anonymous. The group was retaliating over a very public child custody dispute between a Boston Children’s physician and a child’s parents.
McKesson adjusted profit, sales rise above expectations
McKesson reports Q1 results: profit dropped slightly to $425 million, but revenue and sales were both up significantly, EPS $2.49 vs. $2.11, beating expectations.
Novant Health to roll out electronic medical records system at Triad hospitals this weekend
Novant Health will go live with Epic across four of its NC-based hospitals this weekend. The go-live is part of a $600 million system-wide transition and follows its successful install across 300 physician offices last year.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.