Most Patients Want Access to Their Medical Images

A new survey finds that patients are eager to use web portals to download and share medical images and radiology reports with their physicians — a tool that could be valuable not just to patients, but for radiologists as well. Web portals, or patient portals, are also...

Special report: Planning for the unlikely

In the last year or so, it seems the nation’s hospitals were besieged by a variety of high-profile disasters, including Hurricanes Irene and Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing. These events get at the primary challenge of emergency preparedness: trying to...
What Happens When Hospital Data Gets Hacked?

What Happens When Hospital Data Gets Hacked?

Most healthcare facilities expend a great amount of resources toward compliance to safeguard patient information, which when compromised can lead to information getting in the wrong hands and hefty fines being handed down. Many compliance issues are violated when...