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Impact Advisors Promotes Susan Stewart to Vice President
CHICAGO (August 12, 2020) — Impact Advisors, a leading provider of strategy, performance excellence, revenue cycle management, ERP, implementation, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry, announced Susan Stewart has been promoted to vice president. In her new role, she will be responsible for overall quality of delivery for assigned clients and engagements.
“We are excited to welcome Susan to our senior leadership team,” said Pete Smith, CEO and co-founder of Impact Advisors. “She brings specialized expertise and a broad range of experience that further enhances our ability to provide the highest quality of services and results for our clients.”
In her new role as vice president, Stewart will be responsible for overall client satisfaction, focusing on client engagement and delivery. She will work with Impact associates to maximize client project successes and relationships. Stewart also will help define scope and develop proposals for clients and work closely with relationship managers and assist with strategic account planning.
Stewart joined Impact Advisors in 2016 as a principal at the firm and has since served in various leadership roles to assist clients with solving complex business challenges. She has more than 15 years of progressive leadership experience within the healthcare IT industry, with special focus on merger and acquisition integration, enterprise IT transformation, and leading and developing EHR implementations. While at Impact, she led a multiyear, multimillion-dollar IT and operational integration program that successfully migrated five newly acquired community hospitals.
Stewart is a member of HIMSS and the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is passionate about coaching and mentoring individuals both inside and outside Impact Advisors.
About Impact Advisors
Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare management consulting and technology services firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards, including Best in KLAS® for 13 consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.
Media Contact:
Karli Smith
Chartwell Agency
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Impact Advisors Promotes Amy Reid to Vice President of Recruiting
Media Contact:
Karli Smith
Chartwell Agency
815-977-5343
CHICAGO (August 12, 2020) — Impact Advisors, a leading provider of strategy, performance excellence, revenue cycle management, ERP, implementation, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry, announced Amy Reid has been promoted to vice president of recruiting.
“We are pleased to welcome Amy to our senior leadership team,” said Todd Hollowell, chief operating officer at Impact Advisors. “She is an incredibly valued member of our executive team as she focuses on building relationships with candidates, hiring team members, coordinating the efforts of our recruiting team, and maintaining the highest level of integrity with all those involved.”
In her role as vice president of recruiting, Reid will lead and manage the firm’s recruitment strategy to develop and deliver effective talent acquisition. She will also be responsible for leading the recruiting team and leveraging internal and external resources to ensure proper resource allocation to support critical business needs, along with developing and executing recruiting strategies that enhance the organization’s visibility and reputation in the healthcare management consulting and technology services market.
Reid joined Impact Advisors in 2010 and has 25 years of experience in the field of recruiting. She is a strategic recruiting leader with extensive experience in the development and execution of corporate sourcing strategies. In her previous role at Impact Advisors, she developed creative sourcing strategies based on the unique needs of each respective service line and has hired more than 150 healthcare executives, including CMIO’s, seasoned project directors, clinicians, and domain experts with a focus on improving patient care through technology. In addition, she implemented employment branding strategies to effectively articulate the firm’s employee value proposition to attract top talent and contributed to the design, execution, and measurement of diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Reid is active with Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics and several local charitable organizations.
About Impact Advisors
Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare management consulting and technology services firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards, including Best in KLAS® for 13 consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.
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Innovation improves care delivery around the world
Allscripts robust patent program earns five new application patents in eight days
CHICAGO – Aug. 25, 2020 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX) was recently awarded five separate patents over the course of just eight days, reflecting the company’s commitment to delivering unique solutions to its clients and demonstrating its significant momentum in health IT innovation. The Allscripts patent program is expected to add numerous additional patents throughout the remainder of 2020 as the company will deliver innovation to improve how clinicians deliver care and connect the overall patient experience.
Each of the patents recently awarded contributes to streamlining and improving healthcare delivery. For example, one of the patents is for an application that connects electronic health records (EHRs) to various wellness applications to provide patients frictionless goal-tacking functionality, which directly leads to a higher level of patient engagement. Another application enables API calls from EHRs to initiate searches over genetic testing data stores. A patent was also issued for an application that helps organizations secure data in a HIPAA-compliant manner that will not cause performance issues that are often associated with typical encryption practices.
With a long history as a leader in healthcare technology, Allscripts continues seizing opportunities to enrich its offerings. Through extensive investment in software R&D these efforts have resulted in an extensive patent program that has 150 patents issued plus another 150-plus patents currently pending. In 2013 there was one patent in the Allscripts portfolio. Allscripts’ vision remains firmly set on providing healthcare organizations the distinctive solutions they need to deliver excellent care.
“Innovation is at the core of everything we do and I’m proud of the visionary work our team consistently executes upon to grow the capabilities of our solutions to help our clients deliver better care,” said Allscripts CEO, Paul Black. “Allscripts believes that healthcare solutions should be open, for everyone, and leading-edge innovation is the driver to make that a reality.”
About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers and consumers to make better decisions, delivering better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.
Allscripts, the Allscripts logo, and other Allscripts marks are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders, all rights reserved. Reference to these products is not intended to imply affiliation with or sponsorship of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates.
For more information contact:
Investors:
Stephen Shulstein
312-386-6735 [email protected]
Media: Concetta Rasiarmos
312-447-2466 [email protected]
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Capsule Technologies Expands COVID-19 Relief Efforts
VENTILATED PATIENT SURVEILLANCE WORKSTATION POWERED BY MICROSOFT AZURE NOW AVAILABLE TO HOSPITALS
ANDOVER, MA — AUGUST 20, 2020 — To give hospitals greater flexibility in their ongoing response to COVID-19, Capsule Technologies announced today the availability of the cloud deployed and managed version of its Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation powered by Microsoft Azure. The news marks an extension of Capsule’s long-standing collaboration with Microsoft.
The VPS workstation provides users of the Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) centralized remote observation of patients’ ventilator data and clinically actionable emergent events.
A significant portion of coronavirus patients experience severe respiratory complications and require therapy provided by means of mechanical ventilators. With a much higher than normal population of ventilated patients, respiratory therapists and other clinicians experienced in acute respiratory care have many more cases to manage. Treating quarantined patients presents unique challenges, including taking added precautions to prevent infection of staff, who don Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for in-person bedside visits. The VPS workstation annunciates alerts for clinically actionable emergent events so that clinicians can better manage their personal exposure to the virus, and their use of PPE.
“Our collaboration with Microsoft provides hospitals another option to deploy the VPS workstation in the fight against COVID-19,” said Frederic Darguesse, vice president of engineering at Capsule Technologies. “Microsoft’s guidance and training on Microsoft Azure enabled us to accelerate deployment for Capsule clients in need of this specialized clinical solution. And it’s the easiest way for a hospital that already has a cloud IT strategy to get up and running. Microsoft is committed to privacy, data sovereignty and compliance with healthcare regulations in all Azure regions.”
Dr. David Rhew, global chief medical officer, Microsoft said, “Microsoft Azure helps Capsule support healthcare customers and provides a platform for future capabilities in a wide range of markets. Hospitals can now quickly deploy the VPS workstation without burdening on-site tech resources.”
Ventilated patient surveillance leverages the ventilator connectivity of the Capsule MDIP, used in more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals. Besides ventilated patient surveillance, Capsule will make the MDIP available on Azure in the near future, and hospitals will be able to speed upgrades across the Capsule platform.
ABOUT CAPSULE TECHNOLOGIES
Capsule Technologies is a leading global provider of medical data technologies for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Our Medical Device Information Platform — comprised of device integration, vital signs monitoring, and clinical surveillance solutions — captures streaming clinical data from connected systems and transforms it into context-rich information for clinical documentation, alarm management, patient surveillance, decision support, predictive analytics, clinical research and more. End-to-end data management and connectivity supports better collaboration and communication between clinicians and departments. More than 2,800 global clients leverage our platform to improve patient safety, simplify workflows and raise overall satisfaction throughout the hospital and across care settings. Learn more at www.capsuletech.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Philip Anast
Amendola Communications for Capsule Technologies, Inc.
(312) 576-6990
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Allscripts and Sheba Medical Center launch partnership to further healthcare innovation
Healthcare IT vendor and Israeli hospital collaborate to create network of innovators
CHICAGO – August 19, 2020 – Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center have formed a partnership to accelerate the pace of artificial intelligence technologies and to improve patient care through the hospitals’ ARC Innovation Center. ARC, which is an acronym for accelerate, redesign, and collaborate, is the innovation arm of Sheba Medical Center which has a vision to transform healthcare by 2030.
Sheba Medical Center, which currently uses the Allscripts dbMotion™ Solution for seamless interoperability and patient data harmonization, will host a lab space to promote innovation projects. Named by Newsweek as one of the top-ten hospitals in the world, the 2,000-bed hospital is the largest one in Israel, with state-of-the-art facilities located on a comprehensive, all-inclusive campus with a full range of medical divisions and specialties.
ARC Innovation brings new technologies into the hospital and community healthcare ecosystem to further improve patient care. It enables data fluidity and integration amongst innovators; scientists; startups; high-level developers; large and small companies; investors; and academia all under one roof. The organization focuses on digital health technologies, including precision medicine, big data and predictive analytics, telemedicine and mobile health. There are six medical tracks, with a senior Sheba physician leading each: telemedicine, precision medicine, digital innovation focusing on big data and artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, rehabilitation and surgical innovation.
As part of this joint initiative, Allscripts’ open system will be accessible in a space for researchers and developers, and ARC will serve as the platform for cooperation with Allscripts. In addition, Sheba Medical Center’s clinical and research staff and Israeli startups will assist by focusing on healthcare information technology. ARC and Allscripts will proactively seek out ideas and initiatives to enhance the development of new telemedicine and mobile solutions, including a future electronic health record encompassing home hospitalization medical information.
“Our partnership with Allscripts will provide a significant boost to startups and clinicians as they build new capabilities into Allscripts solutions through their unique Open platforms. With the need in rapid changes these days, we need a leader like Allscripts who’s agile, open and connected to the needs of patients, clinicians and governments”, stated Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Deputy Director General, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center.
“Sheba Medical Center is an exemplar for successful healthcare delivery. Allscripts is proud to advance our partnership even further through the ARC initiative,” said Paul M. Black, Allscripts Chief Executive Officer. “Creating an environment that encourages collaboration between some of the brightest minds in healthcare information technology speaks to our commitment to continuously innovate, capitalizing on our 13 year commitment to an Open platform, and our long standing belief to include the best minds to advance and best meet the needs of providers and patients across the globe.”
About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial, and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers and consumers to make more informed decisions, delivering better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.
© 2020 Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
Allscripts, the Allscripts logo, and other Allscripts marks are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders, all rights reserved. Reference to these products is not intended to imply affiliation with or sponsorship of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates.
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For more information contact:
Investors:
Stephen Shulstein
312-386-6735
Media:
Concetta Rasiarmos
312-447-2466
Sheba Medical Center, International Media Relations:
Steve Walz
972-52-233-0430
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Allscripts cloud-based EHR solution to support MicroHealth, LLC for use within the United States Department of State
CHICAGO – August 3, 2020 – Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) today announced that it will serve as a subcontractor to the prime contractor, MicroHealth, LLC, a health information technology firm, as they work to migrate the U.S. Department of State medical health units to a cloud-based solution for its global electronic health records.
MicroHealth will implement Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR, along with FollowMyHealth®, as the integrated mobile personal health record. Through this teaming arrangement, approximately 450 healthcare providers and other clinical staff at the Department of State will gain access to the scalable EHR as it is deployed around the world at more than 200 designated Health Units housed within embassies and missions on a rolling basis through 2023.
“Allscripts is honored to work with MicroHealth to provide our industry-recognized EHR for the benefit of Department of State patients and clinicians,” said Allscripts Chief Executive Officer, Paul Black. “Allscripts has the right set of solutions to complement MicroHealth’s expertise in support of this important initiative.
About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers and consumers to make better decisions, delivering better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.
© 2020 Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
Allscripts, the Allscripts logo, and other Allscripts marks are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders, all rights reserved. Reference to these products is not intended to imply affiliation with or sponsorship of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates.
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For more information contact:
Investors:
Stephen Shulstein
312-386-6735
Media:
Concetta Rasiarmos
312-447-2466
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Healthgrades COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study Looks at Consumer Comfort in Returning to Doctor’s Office Compared to Returning to School
August 19, 2020 – Denver, Colo. – As school districts across the country reopen, the latest data released from the Healthgrades COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study, in partnership with Infosurv, shows that consumers who responded are more comfortable going to the doctor or having a medical procedure than they are having their children returning to school. At the same time, consumers are more comfortable sending their children back to school than going to the movies, restaurant or going on vacation. Specifically, findings show:
- 65% of consumers feeling comfortable visiting their doctor
- 42% of consumers with preschoolers are comfortable sending them back to school next week
- 33% of consumers with K-12 grade children are comfortable sending their children back to school next week
- 32% of consumers are comfortable going to a restaurant
- 25% of consumers are comfortable traveling via plane
- 21% of consumers are comfortable going to a movie theatre next week
“As we have been tracking patient confidence over the past 21 weeks, we have seen noticeable volatility in consumer’s comfort levels towards various activities, whether it is towards starting a new healthcare treatment or sending their children back to school,” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Healthgrades. “The good news is that consumers are feeling most confident about visiting the doctor and accessing healthcare services. While we suspect that opinions will continue to fluctuate given the evolving nature of COVID-19, it’s clear that consumer confidence is generally increasing since we started collecting this data in March.”
Since the COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study started March 27th, consumer confidence towards visiting a doctor, telehealth, and doing everyday activities have also fluctuated. Since the last release, the data is showing:
- 86% of consumers feel safer when they see people wearing face masks in public.
- Telehealth adoption is also continuing to rise, with 92% of consumers stating that telehealth can replace some HCP appointments.
- 56% of consumers would feel comfortable starting a new treatment for a condition in the next 1-2 months.
Download the latest data from the COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study here.
About Healthgrades:
Healthgrades is dedicated to empowering stronger and more meaningful connections between patients and their healthcare providers. At Healthgrades, we help millions of consumers each month find and schedule appointments with their provider of choice. With our scheduling solutions and advanced analytics applications, we help our health system and life sciences clients cultivate new patient relationships, improve patient access, and build customer loyalty. At Healthgrades, better health gets a head start.About Infosurv:
Infosurv Research (www.infosurv.com) is a boutique research agency based in Atlanta, GA. The company helps clients to design, develop, and deploy strategic research programs that drive insights and growth. With a fierce dedication to understanding and optimizing the customer experience, Infosurv offers tools are services that enable a 360-degree view of your customers through direct feedback, employee engagement, and custom market research.Posted 8.20.2020 -
CHIME Awards $100,000 in Scholarships for Women and Minority Health IT Executives
ANN ARBOR, MI, Aug. 19, 2020 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) awarded more than $100,000 in scholarship funding to women and minority healthcare IT executives to attend CHIME’s in-person and digital educational and career development programs in August. Under the new scholarship initiative, CHIME will distribute $200,000 in scholarships through 2021.
The CHIME Education Foundation in collaboration with the CHIME Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Women of CHIME has dedicated up to $100,000 annually for two years to support women and minority members of CHIME as well as their health IT team members in their professional development. Recipients will be able to use the funding to attend online and in-person CHIME boot camps and education offerings, including programs delivered through CHIME’s new platform, Ignite Digital Health Learning.
“There is no doubt that we’ve made progress in the 15 years that I have been a CIO but there is still room for improvement,” said Sheree McFarland, CIO of West Florida at HCA and a member of CHIME’s Board of Trustees and Women of CHIME. “Women and minorities offer valuable knowledge and perspective that can help the C-suite think broadly about healthcare, but only if their voices are heard. The scholarships will give recipients a chance to learn, build networks and advance to leadership positions.”
“Our patient populations are becoming increasingly diverse, racially, ethnically and in so many other ways,” said Cletis Earle, senior vice president and CIO at Penn State Health and chair of the CHIME Diversity and Inclusion Committee. “To best serve them, we need digital healthcare executives who reflect that rich diversity. Our goal is to fill the pipeline with talented minority and women professionals and help position them to succeed as leaders in their hospitals and healthcare organizations.”
The CHIME Education Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships through the fund to date. In addition, the Education Foundation plans to award additional scholarships for women and minority digital healthcare executives to attend CHIME20 Digital on Nov. 10-12. Details about eligibility and the application process will be announced in the near future.
“The unprecedented challenges we face with the pandemic make professional development even more critical,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell P. Branzell. “Working with the Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Women of CHIME, we are supporting the next generation of exceptional leaders transforming health and care. CHIME is honored to be part of their journey.”
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs), chief innovation officers (CIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 3,400 members in 55 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
Contact
Candace Stuart
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
734.665.0000
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The 2020 Healthcare Data Breach Report: an Analysis of HHS Breach Reports from January 2020-June 2020
Reported data breaches to HHS declined in the first half of 2020 – but watch out for the next wave.
The number of healthcare breach reports is down 10.4% compared to the second half of 2019, while the number of breached records is down nearly 83%.
The 2020 H1 Healthcare Data Breach Report – an excerpt
Health and Human Services (HHS) data shows that the number of patient data records breached declined during the early stages of the pandemic, but are expected to surge as the ‘new normal’ creates new vulnerabilities.
Data breaches involving the protected health information (PHI) of patients declined sharply during the first half of 2020, according to a CI Security analysis of data reported to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The number of HHS breach reports from healthcare organizations is down 10.4% in the first half of 2020, compared to the second half of 2019, and the number of reported breached records is down nearly 83%.
While there isn’t one simple explanation for the numbers declining so precipitously in the midst of a global pandemic, a combination of factors may have come into play, including:
1. Healthcare organizations upping their cyber security programs.
2. Some healthcare organizations misunderstanding HHS exceptions issued during the pandemic, leading them to believe they had a COVID 19-related extension beyond the required 60-day window.
3. Healthcare organizations were simply being too busy to report.
4. Some healthcare organizations were hopeful that cybercrime groups who promised to “go easy” on healthcare for the duration of the pandemic, would keep their word. Unfortunately, we have seen a number of reports on phishing and other attacks from cybercrime gangs and nation-states taking advantage of over-stressed healthcare entities during the first half of the year.
5. Some healthcare organizations have been so distracted by the pandemic and associated emergency operations that they have been breached, but don’t know it yet. This is the most ominous explanation but seems very plausible given the average time it takes for healthcare organizations to spot a breach is 329 days, according to IBM’s 2020 “Cost of a Breach” report.
We anticipate that cyber attacks will surge over the next six months for two reasons…
Get the full report below.
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Healthcare Cybersecurity Firm Unveils Decline in Reported Healthcare Cyberattacks to Department of Health & Human Services, Expects Surge in H2
Seattle, WA — CI Security®, the mission-driven provider of Critical Insight Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services for critical systems and organizations, today announced the release of the 2020 H1 Healthcare Data Breach Report, which analyzes trends around reported data breaches and records breached from healthcare providers.
This has been a very challenging year since the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. was reported in January. Despite the outbreak starting in the first half of 2020, data analyzed from the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Breach Portal shows that the number of patient data records breached dramatically declined during the early stages of the pandemic.
Reports of Healthcare Breaches and Compromised Records Are Down in Early 2020
CI Security analysts assessment indicates that the number of breach reports in the first half of 2020 is down 10.4 percent compared to the second half of 2019, and the number of breached records is down nearly 83 percent, based on information that healthcare organizations are required to submit to HHS within 60 days of the discovery of any breach affecting more than 500 individual records.
“A combination of factors come into play for the numbers declining so precipitously during a global pandemic, including healthcare organizations misunderstanding HIPAA and COVID-19 exceptions issued during the pandemic, healthcare organizations simply being too busy to report, or organizations having been so distracted by the pandemic they are not aware they have already been breached,” said Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist, CI Security.
“With the likely notion that some healthcare organizations are not accurately reporting attacks and breaches, this draws attention to the fact that there will likely be a dramatic increase in discovery in the next six months.”
Key Findings
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A total of 3.8 million individual records were breached through hacking and IT incidents in the first half of 2020, compared to 30 million records breached over the prior six-month period.
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The first half of 2020 showed an 82 percent drop in records breached by healthcare providers (over the previous six-month period).
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Email was the top source of breaches in the first half of 2020 (134), blamed for over 3M records breached in the first half of 2020, up 86 percent over the last half of 2019.
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Hacking consistently leads the way for total number of breach reports, accounting for 149 of the 249 breaches reported in H1 2020.
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Providers reported 18 percent fewer breaches in the first half of 2020, compared with the last six months of 2019.
Early 2020 Impacts on Healthcare IT
The emergence of the COVID-19 global pandemic caused organizations to change business and clinical practices rapidly from rolling out work-from-home for employees, driving exponential increases in telehealth visits, and urgently acquiring and installing equipment, including Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).
Additionally, healthcare organizations extended capacity by quickly on-boarding previously retired clinicians, and temporary employees; added new locations for drive-thru testing and other needs; and connected to new suppliers.
What’s Next for Healthcare Security in H2 2020
CI Security anticipates that cyberattacks will surge over the next six months, given hospital records remain a high-value target for hackers; patient medical records are worth as much as ten times more than credit card numbers on the dark web. Healthcare organizations will require more cyber security vigilance than ever before.
Get the complete findings and a free copy of the report on CI Security’s website here: The 2020 H1 Healthcare Data Breach Data Report.
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TRIMEDX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH MEDIGATE TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME VISIBILITY INTO CONNECTED MEDICAL DEVICES, LAUNCHES EXPANDED OFFERINGS FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS
July 21, 2020 Comprehensive clinical asset management and cybersecurity program will revolutionize health systems’ understanding of medical device utilization and introduce next-generation device safety & security protection
INDIANAPOLIS‒Healthcare technology company TRIMEDX, an industry-leading provider of clinical asset management solutions for health systems’ clinical engineering services, announced a strategic partnership with Medigate―a dedicated medical device security and asset management solution firm―to meet the unique demands of clinical asset management (CAM) and medical device safety and security for healthcare systems. This coincides with TRIMEDX’s launch of its new CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced product offerings, which makes it uniquely able to offer comprehensive, real-time data along with enhanced visibility to guide providers in improving their overall performance―improving financial health, reducing risk and improving patient/clinician satisfaction.
Through this partnership, TRIMEDX and Medigate deliver an integrated solution that merges the TRIMEDX CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced solutions with Medigate’s real-time visibility, utilization data and threat/vulnerability detection. “Leveraging the power of cybersecurity monitoring, the depth and breadth of device-level data, analytics, and the skills and expertise of our field associates and leadership, TRIMEDX delivers a best-in-class portfolio designed to manage the full lifecycle of a hospital or health system’s clinical assets,” says TRIMEDX CEO Henry Hummel.
Advanced, real-time utilization insights
According to Deloitte Development LLC in July 2018, 68% of medical devices are projected to be connected devices by the year 2025. With cyberattacks rising exponentially each year, the security of connected medical devices has never been more critical. And since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, TRIMEDX’s cybersecurity team has seen the number of cyber threats increase from an average of 19/month to 80+/month during pandemic response efforts.
“As more medical devices are integrated into clinical networks, real-time connected medical device utilization data, in lieu of estimates, or manual collection of data over time, adds greater accuracy to emergency preparedness and capital planning initiatives across hospitals and health systems,” says LeAnne Hester, TRIMEDX chief marketing officer.
The Medigate platform discovers and precisely identifies every connected device on a clinical network, automatically doing so, in real-time, through proprietary algorithms specifically built to identify devices and communication protocols. “The foundation of our work together is around leveraging the strengths of both organizations,” says Jonathan Langer, CEO and co-founder of Medigate. “The combined value of TRIMEDX’s clinical engineering expertise with Medigate’s deep technology specific to healthcare cybersecurity will fuel the TRIMEDX operation with even greater actionable and accurate data in providing high-value service and information.”
Industry-leading threat detection and remediation
Through this partnership, Medigate and TRIMEDX address device safety and security monitoring, threat detection and remediation in a closed-loop system, marrying best-in-class industry expertise in both technology and people. Medigate’s platform continuously reviews network activity, quickly identifying anomalies that are escalated for review, while a dedicated team of TRIMEDX clinical engineering cyber specialists proactively searches for known vulnerabilities, monitors supplier response to known risks, and applies approved patches. In addition, recognizing the unique expertise required to manage the cyber risk of medical devices, all members of the TRIMEDX Cybersecurity Team receive approximately 200 hours of dedicated training through the TRIMEDX CYBER Academy. All data is tracked through the TRIMEDX proprietary work order system to keep clients continually apprised on the status of remediation.
“This is a fundamental shift from a manual process of capturing data to automatic, real-time cybersecurity monitoring of connected devices across clinical networks,” says Doug Folsom, TRIMEDX chief information officer. “Real-time device data is securely captured and analyzed, enabling us to create visibility and deliver the most powerful and comprehensive Clinical Asset Management solution. Utilization, combined with our clinical asset benchmarks, provide objective data for health systems as they make decisions around replacing, disposing of or reallocating medical devices, leading to savings in operational and capital expense.”
Partnership expands TRIMEDX product offerings
Building on its strong foundation of clinical asset management, now TRIMEDX introduces its CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced offerings to its clients. Leveraging the power of the Medigate platform, TRIMEDX is taking technology enablement to the next level.
The CYBER Advanced offering brings greater inventory accuracy through the collection and maintenance of key attributes of connected and connectable medical devices. It also provides real-time monitoring of vulnerabilities, alerts, recalls as well as the detection of potential suspicious behavior; along with more efficient remediation workflow and a supplier scorecard that allows clients to make more informed medical device purchasing decisions. It introduces a first-in-industry, advanced cybersecurity risk score to gain visibility of device risk profile as well as overall security risk posture. This comes along with a dedicated CYBER team that proactively identifies cyber vulnerabilities and on-site CYBER specialists for all aspects of cybersecurity remediation.
The CAM Advanced solution transforms capital planning initiatives into a dynamic, data-driven, objective process that establishes spending priorities and maximizes equipment ownership. The Advanced offering includes the TRIMEDX proprietary RUDR ScoreSM―a proprietary score that drives objective decision making around clinical asset replacement, upgrade, disposition or reallocation. It also contains advanced benchmarking of client data against national data on over 4.2M clinical assets in its proprietary data warehouse, as well as integration with the Medigate platform for utilization data and sophisticated cyber risk scoring to support targeted decision making.“The healthcare industry is a mission-critical environment,” says Hummel. “In working with our early adopters of our Advanced solutions, we have demonstrated a level of precision and accuracy along with reliability and credibility achieved in real time. TRIMEDX will operate in an even more proactive way for its clients.”
IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TRIMEDX CAN HELP WITH YOUR HEALTH SYSTEM’S CLINICAL ASSET AND CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY, PLEASE REACH OUT BELOW.
About TRIMEDX
TRIMEDX is defining total clinical asset management for the healthcare industry. As the largest independent technology-enabled clinical asset management company in the United States, TRIMEDX provides strategic planning and management of clinical assets to drive operational cost savings, free up capital for new strategic initiatives and deliver improved risk management and cyber protection. TRIMEDX was built by providers, for providers, and leverages a history of expert clinical engineering to manage over $30 billion in clinical assets across thousands of locations.About Medigate
Medigate is the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and safety.Posted 8.10.2020 -
TRIMEDX announces partnership with Medigate to provide real-time visibility into connected medical devices, launches expanded offerings for health systems
July 21, 2020
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[email protected]Comprehensive clinical asset management and cybersecurity program will revolutionize health systems’ understanding of medical device utilization and introduce next-generation device safety & security protection
INDIANAPOLIS‒Healthcare technology company TRIMEDX, an industry-leading provider of clinical asset management solutions for health systems’ clinical engineering services, announced a strategic partnership with Medigate―a dedicated medical device security and asset management solution firm―to meet the unique demands of clinical asset management (CAM) and medical device safety and security for healthcare systems. This coincides with TRIMEDX’s launch of its new CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced product offerings, which makes it uniquely able to offer comprehensive, real-time data along with enhanced visibility to guide providers in improving their overall performance―improving financial health, reducing risk and improving patient/clinician satisfaction.
Through this partnership, TRIMEDX and Medigate deliver an integrated solution that merges the TRIMEDX CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced solutions with Medigate’s real-time visibility, utilization data and threat/vulnerability detection. “Leveraging the power of cybersecurity monitoring, the depth and breadth of device-level data, analytics, and the skills and expertise of our field associates and leadership, TRIMEDX delivers a best-in-class portfolio designed to manage the full lifecycle of a hospital or health system’s clinical assets,” says TRIMEDX CEO Henry Hummel.
Advanced, real-time utilization insights
According to Deloitte Development LLC in July 2018, 68% of medical devices are projected to be connected devices by the year 2025. With cyberattacks rising exponentially each year, the security of connected medical devices has never been more critical. And since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, TRIMEDX’s cybersecurity team has seen the number of cyber threats increase from an average of 19/month to 80+/month during pandemic response efforts.
“As more medical devices are integrated into clinical networks, real-time connected medical device utilization data, in lieu of estimates, or manual collection of data over time, adds greater accuracy to emergency preparedness and capital planning initiatives across hospitals and health systems,” says LeAnne Hester, TRIMEDX chief marketing officer.
The Medigate platform discovers and precisely identifies every connected device on a clinical network, automatically doing so, in real-time, through proprietary algorithms specifically built to identify devices and communication protocols. “The foundation of our work together is around leveraging the strengths of both organizations,” says Jonathan Langer, CEO and co-founder of Medigate. “The combined value of TRIMEDX’s clinical engineering expertise with Medigate’s deep technology specific to healthcare cybersecurity will fuel the TRIMEDX operation with even greater actionable and accurate data in providing high-value service and information.”
Industry-leading threat detection and remediation
Through this partnership, Medigate and TRIMEDX address device safety and security monitoring, threat detection and remediation in a closed-loop system, marrying best-in-class industry expertise in both technology and people. Medigate’s platform continuously reviews network activity, quickly identifying anomalies that are escalated for review, while a dedicated team of TRIMEDX clinical engineering cyber specialists proactively searches for known vulnerabilities, monitors supplier response to known risks, and applies approved patches. In addition, recognizing the unique expertise required to manage the cyber risk of medical devices, all members of the TRIMEDX Cybersecurity Team receive approximately 200 hours of dedicated training through the TRIMEDX CYBER Academy. All data is tracked through the TRIMEDX proprietary work order system to keep clients continually apprised on the status of remediation.
“This is a fundamental shift from a manual process of capturing data to automatic, real-time cybersecurity monitoring of connected devices across clinical networks,” says Doug Folsom, TRIMEDX chief information officer. “Real-time device data is securely captured and analyzed, enabling us to create visibility and deliver the most powerful and comprehensive Clinical Asset Management solution. Utilization, combined with our clinical asset benchmarks, provide objective data for health systems as they make decisions around replacing, disposing of or reallocating medical devices, leading to savings in operational and capital expense.”
Partnership expands TRIMEDX product offerings
Building on its strong foundation of clinical asset management, now TRIMEDX introduces its CAM Advanced and CYBER Advanced offerings to its clients. Leveraging the power of the Medigate platform, TRIMEDX is taking technology enablement to the next level.
The CYBER Advanced offering brings greater inventory accuracy through the collection and maintenance of key attributes of connected and connectable medical devices. It also provides real-time monitoring of vulnerabilities, alerts, recalls as well as the detection of potential suspicious behavior; along with more efficient remediation workflow and a supplier scorecard that allows clients to make more informed medical device purchasing decisions. It introduces a first-in-industry, advanced cybersecurity risk score to gain visibility of device risk profile as well as overall security risk posture. This comes along with a dedicated CYBER team that proactively identifies cyber vulnerabilities and on-site CYBER specialists for all aspects of cybersecurity remediation.
The CAM Advanced solution transforms capital planning initiatives into a dynamic, data-driven, objective process that establishes spending priorities and maximizes equipment ownership. The Advanced offering includes the TRIMEDX proprietary RUDR ScoreSM―a proprietary score that drives objective decision making around clinical asset replacement, upgrade, disposition or reallocation. It also contains advanced benchmarking of client data against national data on over 4.2M clinical assets in its proprietary data warehouse, as well as integration with the Medigate platform for utilization data and sophisticated cyber risk scoring to support targeted decision making.
“The healthcare industry is a mission-critical environment,” says Hummel. “In working with our early adopters of our Advanced solutions, we have demonstrated a level of precision and accuracy along with reliability and credibility achieved in real time. TRIMEDX will operate in an even more proactive way for its clients.”
About TRIMEDXTRIMEDX is defining total clinical asset management for the healthcare industry. As the largest independent technology-enabled clinical asset management company in the United States, TRIMEDX provides strategic planning and management of clinical assets to drive operational cost savings, free up capital for new strategic initiatives and deliver improved risk management and cyber protection. TRIMEDX was built by providers, for providers, and leverages a history of expert clinical engineering to manage over $30 billion in clinical assets across thousands of locations.
About Medigate
Medigate is the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and safety.
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Posted 8.10.2020