Hospitals and health networks across the United States regularly devote a substantial amount of resources to the management of health care registries. With the intense focus on value-based care that is tied to reimbursement and the drive to follow best practices to improve patients outcomes, achieving excellence in registry management is a vital business goal. Many health systems have discovered they are able to reduce the…
NCRA’s 2020 Virtual Educational Conference Recap
2020 Vision Innovation/Education/Improving Cancer Data . . . Keeping in pace with a very different 2020 year, NCRA hosted its first virtual conference, and WOW what an excellent experience! Kudos to the planners, speakers, volunteers, programmers, exhibitors, and everyone who made this virtual experience possible. The navigation of the site was easy and wonderful to have the days tracks and sessions just a click away. There…
COVID-19 and Social Engineering
COVID-19 has had an extraordinary impact on the daily lives of all. Even in the fall of 2020, many people are working partially or totally remotely. And unfortunately, that has made bad actors pursue social engineering tactics with vigor. Social engineering is a universal term for various ways of tricking someone to divulge information. This can take the form of phishing emails, phishing text messages, phone…