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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the roll-out an all-electronic health records (EHR) system about a year ago, only about half of the doctors and nurses in West Virginia’s state hospitals were familiar with medical computer ...

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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 ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. – More than 25 U.S. Army medical providers from across the country, Alaska, and Germany traveled to Fort Jackson this week to attend a three-day medical training seminar hosted by ...