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49 CIO / HEALTH IT Allscripts CEO Paul Black steps down By Naomi Diaz A llscripts CEO Paul Black announced in an earn- ings call May 5 that he is stepping down from his position. Mr. Black, who served a CEO for 10 years, will leave the EHR vendor May 6. Rick Poulton, who serves as president of Allscripts, will take on the role of CEO. "This is a difficult decision, but I leave knowing that the company is stronger than ever," Mr. Black said. In the same call, Allscripts reported $143 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2022, up from $134 million during the same period last year. Four details: 1. Veradigm, Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, reported $136 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2022, up from $126 million during the first quarter of 2021. 2. Allscripts' stock repurchases totaled $50 million. 3. Allscripts consolidated GAAP net income in the first quarter of 2022 totaled $23 million compared with $9 mil- lion in the first quarter of 2021. 4. On May 2, Allscripts announced it had completed the sale of its hospital business segment to N. Harris Comput- er Corp., a subsidiary of Constellation Software. In this re- port, Allscripts said the move will provide additional "val- ue to clients, employees and shareholders." n Tech industry warns of more remote jobs moving out of US By Georgina Gonzalez T he tech industry is warning lawmakers that the wave of remote working is leading to offshoring talent from the U.S. unless the nation admits more highly skilled immigrants, The Wall Street Journal report- ed May 10. As of February 2022, 22 percent of tech jobs were listed as remote compared to 4.4 percent in January 2020. Re- mote jobs allow flexibility to workers and also allows for workers to remain in their home countries and work for U.S. companies. "It unfortunately opens the door to more outsourcing — workers staying in India, in China, or moving to places like Canada that have more flexible immigration policies," said Jennifer Grundy Young, CEO of tech trade group Tecna. The number of skilled-work visas, or HB-1 visas, distributed annually in the nation hasn't changed since 2005 at 65,000. Tech representatives argue that they have a high demand to fill positions, but have to turn away highly-skilled foreign workers given the lack of available visas. Representatives of the industry will visit Capitol Hill the week of May 9 to ask lawmakers to consider reforming the system before the in- dustry loses too many jobs to other worldwide tech hubs with more lax immigration policies. "Ultimately, this could hurt the U.S. economy. There's no rule that Silicon Valley is always going to have the tech crown," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee. n The era of passwords is ending: How tech giants will ensure safe sign-ins By Naomi Diaz M icroso, Google and Apple made a joint agreement to implement passwordless logins across mobile and desktop devices and browsers. On May 5, the tech giants announced that they are expanding support for a pass- word-free sign-in standard from the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Con- sortium. is will allow users to use smart- phones to sign-in to an app or website on a nearby device, regardless of the operating system or browser. Users will use a verification of their finger- print, face scan or a device pin to sign-in, similar to what smartphones have today. e three tech giants will work to implement passwordless FIDO sign-in standards across macOS, Safari, Android, Chrome, Windows and Edge, over the next year. e move comes as the tech companies cit- ed threats like phishing, scams and poor password hygiene associated with cyberse- curity risks. According to the companies, a password- less sign-in would make it more difficult for hackers to compromise login details remote- ly since signing-in requires access to a phys- ical device. n A passwordless sign-in would make it more difficult for hackers to compromise login details remotely.