By Stephanie O’Neill | Kaiser Health News Health officials in California are struggling to contain fierce outbreaks of hepatitis A among homeless people and drug abusers in three counties, including San Diego, where at least 17 people have died. Hundreds…
Physicians cited “fear of malpractice” as the top reason for the overtreatment of patients, according to a new study. Eight of every 10 doctors attributed overtreatment to fear of malpractice (84.7%), patient pressure or request was the next highest reason…
Online ratings don’t help patients looking for the best doctor, according to a new study. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center compared the reviews of 78 of the medical center’s specialists to its own internal performance metrics and found there…
California’s Medical Board has the right to obtain prescription records without a warrant or subpoena, according to a California Supreme Court ruling last month. A Burbank internist brought a lawsuit contending his three-year probation violated his patients’ privacy after the…
By Jordan Rau | Kaiser Health News Amid all the turbulence over the future of the Affordable Care Act, one facet continues unchanged: President Donald Trump’s administration is penalizing more than half the nation’s hospitals for having too…
Data breaches in the U.S. hit a new mid-year record, according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. The 791 breaches so far in 2017 are a 29% jump over the same period in 2016 and puts the…
Space in shopping malls vacated by slumping retail businesses is being filled in a number of ways including large medical providers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The partnerships are largely considered a win-win for healthcare organizations and mall owners….
Four of every ten physicians in America are age 65 or older, and 40% of those doctors are actively involved in patient care, according to the American Medical Association. Concern over those older physicians’ mental states is prompting a growing…
A new cyberattack that spread across Europe and the U.S. last week was a type of ransomware very similar to the recent WannaCry outbreak, experts say. The attack, which security experts dubbed Petya (or Petrwrap), exploits the “EternalBlue” vulnerability developed by the NSA and…
There’s an axiom in the cybersecurity world that there are three types of people: those who have been hacked, those who will be hacked, and those who are being hacked right now and just don’t know it yet. When it comes to…
