News 5/24/23

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Professional Business Systems, doing business as Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions, will pay $550,000 in penalties for its failure to update its firewall software in a timely manner. That failure resulted in a November 2020 ransomware attack in which hackers stole nearly 80,000 files containing information on 1.2 million patients.

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Webinars

None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

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People

Judy Carpenter (Riverside Medical Clinic) joins Akido as head of medical network operations.

 

On Belay Health Solutions names Chad Turner (Ventra Health) chief growth officer and Olga Eskinazi (Kaia Health) VP of marketing.

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Announcements and Implementations

Southern California-based community health center TrueCare implements Rimidi’s remote blood pressure monitoring and management platform with help from a HRSA Hypertension grant.

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Research and Innovation

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health call for EHR vendors to standardize measures related to “after-hours” workload metrics so that health systems can better analyze and adjust workflows to prevent burnout.

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Sponsor Updates

• AdvancedMD sponsors the Gratitude Gala in Chicago, benefiting The Bette D. Harris Family & Child Clinic.
• Princeton Brain, Spine & Sports Medicine transitions to EClinicalWorks Cloud.
• Nordic publishes a technical paper titled “A New Horizon for IT Strategy: Prioritizing the Patient Experience Through Digital Transformation.”

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