Healthcare IT News June 6, 2024
Dr. Marschall Runge, CEO of Michigan Medicine and dean of U-M Medical School, discusses the real-world insider threats that inspired his new “techno-medical thriller,” whose plot focuses on misuse of a national electronic health record.
A new healthcare IT-focused thriller, written by a longtime health system leader, involves a hack into a national electronic health record system. The novel, Coded to Kill (Post Hill Press), is focused around two themes that can sometimes be at odds: maintaining patient privacy while driving toward nationwide interoperability.
The characters at the fictional company developing the for-profit nationwide EHR are “susceptible to thinking it’s better than it is,” explained author, Dr. Marschall Runge, who serves as executive vice president for medical affairs for...
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