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Week of March 10-16 Play an active role in support of Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 10-16 by sharing your organization’s plans and by following us on Twitter for ideas and inspiration. Follow Constellation @together_4_good, to learn what Constellation and its growing portfolio of medical professional liability insurance companies, including MMIC, UMIA and Arkansas Mutual, […]

HHS has released Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients, a collaborative publication by HHS and its industry partners with consensus-based voluntary cybersecurity guidelines to reduce cybersecurity risks for health care organizations of varying sizes, ranging from local clinics, regional hospital systems, to large health care systems. The publication outlines five cybersecurity threats

AHRQ has released EvidenceNOW Tools for Change, an online collection of more than 100 tools and resources to help primary care practices improve quality by providing evidence-based care to their patients. The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram shows six key drivers – big changes – that primary care practices make to build their capacity to implement

Constellation has announced a strategic partnership with Imprivata®, a health care IT security company offering technology that addresses two critical needs: safeguarding electronic systems and health care data, and improving efficiency in the way clinical work is done. Read More >

Citing an increase in cybersecurity attacks on health care organizations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a framework to plan for and respond to cybersecurity incidents involving medical devices. The Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook covers preparedness and response for medical device cybersecurity issues that impact the functionality