Inpatient prospective payment system hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period can apply through July 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET for a hardship exception from the 2018 payment adjustment. For instructions and applications, visit www.cms.gov.

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The AHA will host a webinar Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss the cybersecurity, compliance and operational risks that can emerge when end-of-life technology is…
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The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued a final rule Oct. 26 regarding…
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The Department of Justice Oct. 13 announced a series of actions disrupting a scheme by the North Korean government that involved placing remote IT workers in U…
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The West Health Accelerator at the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust will host a virtual session Oct. 29 at 2:30 p.m. ET on how hospitals are…
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A joint advisory issued Oct. 20 by U.S. and international agencies warns of recent activity by the SafePay Ransomware group. The group has been active since…
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Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, a widely-used open-source scripted language for web development, its…