Something of a mixed bag of stuff this week, which is sometimes the case, particularly with the ever-shifting compliance landscape. First up, an update to one of TJC’s safety...
Given what the healthcare industry faced in 2020, the seventh edition of our Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, Disruption and Transformation, is aptly titled. As if fighting the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough for the industry to tackle, it also faced a surge of ransomware attacks...
The CDC continues to update its COVID-19 infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel. Those recommendations call for the continued use of masks and other source control measures even if you are in an area of low transmission.
The San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about being barred from seeing a patient due to COVID-19 restrictions, threatened to bring a gun to the California facility.
Cyberattacks target every industry all the time, and healthcare is no exception. According to a recent IBM study, the average cost per healthcare cyberattack is a hefty $7 million. Despite numbers like this, cybersecurity often isn’t the C-suite’s top priority. How can CISOs in hospitals and...
Not using or cleaning devices or equipment according to manufacturers’ instructions and improper management of medications were the top clinical compliance issues highlighted in the first Executive Briefing from The Joint Commission (TJC) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inmates in the nation’s prisons were more than three times as likely to contract COVID-19 and more than twice as likely to die from it during the first year of the pandemic, when compared with the overall U.S. population, a ...
Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, has only ever wanted to serve in healthcare. Thirty years ago, she started a practice on the East Coast. In 1993, she joined Kaiser Permanente as a front-line internist. Over her 22-year tenure, she worked as a physician and moved through a variety of...
