Tag: electronic health records
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Feds find security flaws in Kynect; state says no data breaches; problems also found in federal exchange
State health-insurance exchanges in Kentucky, Vermont and California had “significant weaknesses” in protecting their electronic information from hackers, the Government Accountability Office said in a report last month. “These included...
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Baptist Health joins national network that combines data to help patients get the best cancer care
Baptist Health has joined a national network that facilitates the sharing of health information with other hospitals in its network to improve and personalize cancer treatments, all while keeping its...
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Electronic health records are here to stay, but continue to have growing pains; some providers say they’re not paying off yet
While the ongoing transition to electronic health records promises to bring revolutionary advances in health care, it hasn’t been cheap or easy, Josh Shepherd reports for The Lane Report. In...
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Patient portals at Leitchfield hospital are breached in cyber attack; officials say it did not involve any data in state system
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center‘s patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient...
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Dr. Steven J. Stack of Lexington is sworn in as 170th president of the American Medical Association
Dr. Steven J. Stack, an emergency physician practicing in Lexington, was sworn in as the 170th president of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician organization. Dr. Steven J....
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How has the federal health-reform law changed your care?
Despite the controversy that continues to surround the Patient Protection and Affordable Act five years after its passage, it has probably changed the way your health care is delivered as...
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Most Kentuckians don’t communicate with doctors electronically; most are confident about access to pricing information for care
Most Kentuckians don’t communicate with their doctor electronically, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll. The poll, taken Oct.8-Nov.6, found that 73 percent of Kentuckians have not communicated with...
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AMA president-elect, from Lexington, talks with KET host about the myriad issues facing his profession and its patients
Steven J. Stack The new president-elect of the American Medical Association, Dr. Steven J. Stack of Lexington, covered a range of topics with Bill Goodman on KET‘s “One to One”...
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Women leading Kentucky health: State health commissioner sees ‘stars aligned’ for Kentucky to finally get healthier
Health Commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson This is the third in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection...
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UK hospital tells 1,079 former patients that a laptop computer with their medical records was stolen in early February
The University of Kentucky reported Wednesday that personal health information of 1,079 people who had been patients at its hospital was on a laptop computer that was stolen in early...