Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
While the ongoing transition to electronic health records promises to bring revolutionary advances in health care, it hasn’t been cheap or easy, Josh Shepherd reports for The Lane Report. In...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center‘s patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient...
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most of the focus on Obamacare has been on people who are no longer uninsured, or those who had to get...
Despite concerns elsewhere about the privacy of personal health information, Kentucky’s top health official says her agency is one of the best in the nation at protecting and managing such...
Kentucky is one of 17 states setting up its own online health-insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A new report provides a limited update about the process,...