In 2019, more than 41 million patient records were breached, nearly tripling the number of breaches from 2018, according to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net.
Consider alarm fatigue. Providers are supposed to respond with the same alacrity to each of the hundreds of pings, alerts, or notifications they get every day. But these systems are often so excessive and poorly calibrated that staff become numb to them. Then, when an important alert is...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s granting of summary judgement, finding that an employer may offer to hire an applicant on the condition that she undergoes a medical examination confirming her ability to perform the job’s...