Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.

Nurses huddled together look at electronic health records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 03:19 pm October 31, 2023
Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.
Blue lock appears over motherboard
By Andrea Fox 09:46 am October 31, 2023
Threat actors could execute on a remote code execution vulnerability in Mirth Connect, a cross-platform communications tool, to gain access and compromise data, according to the NIST national vulnerability database.
A male doctor sits with another man and they are looking at SDOH data on a mobile device.
By Andrea Fox 05:26 pm October 27, 2023
By integrating a patient portal screening tool into the clinical workflow, Tufts University researchers aim to advance the use of HIT to identify food-insecure and nutrition-insecure patients and pave the way to interventions like nutrition prescriptions.
Code on a computer monitor
By Andrea Fox 03:48 pm October 26, 2023
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services released the Cybersecurity Toolkit for Healthcare and Public Health after a discussion on cybersecurity challenges the U.S.
IBM Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic
By Andrea Fox 02:39 pm October 25, 2023
Researchers will use $40 million in funding to develop quantum algorithms and workflows. They will also partner with Algorithmiq on a second initiative to create computational tools that demonstrate quantum advantage.
Young person sits on a couch and types on a mobile phone
By Andrea Fox 01:16 pm October 24, 2023
Its partnership with Freshpaint seeks to support hospitals, health systems and health plans by configuring their patient engagement ecosystems to support compliance with HIPAA privacy rules and regulations.
A person in a suit jacket looks down at his cellphone while standing and riding the subway.
By Andrea Fox 10:35 am October 23, 2023
Individuals increased their use of apps to access their online medical records between 2020 and 2022, while web-only access to portals decreased, according to an analysis of national survey data.
KLAS booth sign at HIMSS Global Conference
By Andrea Fox 11:42 am October 20, 2023
While lack of efficiency in using electronic health records is most correlated with clinician burnout, healthcare organizations want vendors to help them improve EHR experiences, according to the KLAS Arch Collaborative.
A doctor appears on a tablet having a telehealth visit with a person with short hair.
By Andrea Fox 10:52 am October 19, 2023
OCR's new resources aim to shore up telehealth privacy practices by helping healthcare organizations guide patients in basic cyber hygiene that can better protect their PHI when accessing virtual care through websites and apps.
Male doctor in a medical mask works at his desktop.
By Andrea Fox 10:32 am October 18, 2023
CISA highlights five recently detected vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog and creates a new list of misconfigurations and weaknesses known to be used in ransomware campaigns, and HC3 warns about NoEscape ransomware.

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