In 2022, Lauren Ramsey, a breast surgical oncologist based in Texas, lost a friend and colleague to breast cancer. Her friend was an orthopedic surgeon, and Ramsey believes that occupational exposure to radiation in the operating room could have contributed to her cancer diagnosis.

“Orthopedic surgeons work with a lot of radiation because radiation is in the X-rays,” Ramsey told Healthcare Brew. “That really got me thinking about the protection that we wear as women in the operating room.”

Women orthopedic surgeons are nearly 3x more likely to develop breast cancer than the general population, according to a May 2022 study from Stanford University.

That’s why Ramsey created the BAT, a garment shaped like a T-shirt to protect the breasts, axilla, and thyroid from radiation exposure. At least two major hospitals in Texas have already placed orders for the product since it went to market at the beginning of September, she said, and it is available at any hospital where Burlington Medical supplies radiation protection garments.

Keep reading here.—CM

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Climate change is a threat to healthcare systems. But there are no hard and fast rules for providers on how to address challenges from extreme weather.

Two years ago, Americares and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (C-CHANGE) set out to change that by releasing a toolkit with resources on extreme heat, wildfires and smoke, hurricanes, and floods for health providers, administrators, and patients.

Earlier this month, the team released an updated version of the toolkit based on feedback from organizations that have been using the resource.

“We are seeing increasingly intense severe weather, we're seeing heat waves, we're seeing wildfires and wildfire smoke impacts, and we were really concerned that these are impacting our patients,” Caleb Dresser, director of Healthcare Solutions at Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, told Healthcare Brew. “We need resources for clinicians and people managing frontline clinics to deal with these impacts.”

Keep reading here.—CM

There is a new pair of sheriffs in town and they are looking to make sure that the healthcare industry is dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s when it comes to cybersecurity.

Last week, Democratic senators Ron Wyden and Mark Warner introduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act, a bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a set of minimum cybersecurity standards for healthcare providers, health plans, clearinghouses, and business associates.

“With hacks already targeting institutions across the country, it’s time to go beyond voluntary standards and ensure healthcare providers and vendors get serious about cybersecurity and patient safety,” Sen. Warner said in a statement accompanying the announcement of the bill.

The proposed bill would also require the HHS to audit the data security practices of 20 companies per year and eliminate statutory caps on the agency’s fining authority in hopes that larger fines could deter bad cybersecurity practices.

Keep reading on IT Brew here.—BM