The effects of the coronavirus on health systems will be far-reaching and long-lasting. Beyond the impact on front-line staff and the disruption of having many employees work remotely, health systems are also seeing a cloud loom when it comes to their finances. To seek relief from these headwinds, the chief executives of the American Hospital Association, ... READ MORE >
Hospitals
The mounting toll of cyberattacks on rural hospitals
Rural health providers are increasingly under cyberattack. Enticed by valuable stores of health records and sometimes porous security, hackers infiltrate a hospital’s IT system and encrypt its data, making it unusable until the provider pays a ransom. If the hospital doesn’t pay up, the hackers can sell the data on the dark web to those who use it for ... READ MORE >