information technology

Federal officials say they are working to develop rules to help health care facilities protect themselves against threats. But they say more money is needed from Congress to help hospitals protect themselves.

Software sifts through millions of medical records to match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics and predicts what kind of care an individual will need. New rules will ensure humans are part of the process.

A week after the IT breach, the health system said more emergency patients are being accepted while “significant progress" has been made to bring affected computer systems back online.

An IT threat at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is ongoing. In an update sent Tuesday, the system said some elective procedures have resumed.

The hospital said IT teams were making progress in managing the problem, but an investigation was ongoing to determine “exactly what happened" that led to taking systems offline.

Health data can be shockingly available. A group of nonprofits and corporations is proposing to patch up the holes in health apps, but many of the biggest companies didn’t participate in the proposal’s creation.

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans, Inc. will lay off 57 employees over the next few months as it outsources its information technology to Ohio-based…