Palomar Health Medical Group’s phones and computer system have been down for nearly two months. KPBS North County reporter Alexander Nguyen shows us how that’s affecting patients and what the issue ...

Sixteen hospitals and more than a hundred other medical facilities across the United States are offline after the largest cyberattack on a U.S. hospital system since last year. Prospect Medical ...

Over the past decade, healthcare has been aggressively organizing to use data for better medical care. Healthcare professionals today are routinely using electronic health records (EHRs) to improve ...

WASHINGTON — The nation's transition to electronic medical records, now in full swing, risks overlooking potential patient safety problems, independent advisers warned the Obama administration Tuesday ...

In times of crisis, immense creativity often comes to the fore, precipitating major changes. This has been the case in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era. Healthcare technology has leaped to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper describes the on-going development of a new computer-based security risk analysis methodology that may be used to determine the ...

Medical alert systems are wearable devices that contain a call button. In the event of an emergency, such as chest pain or a fall, the wearer can press the call button. The best medical alert systems ...

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