healthcare: Security & Privacy
ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
Healthcare IT Needs More Crazy CIOs
The IT leaders who make a difference sometimes break the rules, but their vision and courage drive results for the customers who matter: patients.
The Brave New World Of Enterprise Data Warehouses
Mid-size hospitals know how to analyze their financial, operational, and clinical data. But to survive in the coming pay-for-performance world,...
IT Tools Help Patients Cut Prescription, Exam Costs
Change Healthcare provides companies' employees with a Web portal, data analytics, personalized text messages, and email alerts to help them find...
Is Personalized Medicine In Your Future?
Proponents say the marriage of health IT and individualized therapy will revolutionize health care. The jury is still out.
Rhode Island Thinks Big About Health IT
Meet Rhode Island Quality Institute's CIO and see why Medicare thinks other states could learn from his big ideas.
Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped
It's not a security, privacy, or data-sharing problem. It's a patient problem.
Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?
Meaningful Use programs, healthcare reform, and the public's love of mobile devices could add up to patients finally getting fully involved in...
Turbocharge Your EHR With Additional Data Sources
Chances are your clinical information systems are starved for data. Consider adding EMBASE, Micromedix, and other sources.
Is Your Clinical Database Up to Speed?
If the scientific data going into these repositories is flawed, so are your clinicians' decisions.
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TigerText Investment To Tighten Up Messaging Security
February 09, 2012As text messaging among healthcare providers increases, TigerText secures $8.2 million to improve security.
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ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
February 06, 2012Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
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A Reality Check For Feds' Health IT Projections
February 01, 2012National Coordinator for Health IT is predictably optimistic, but observers take a more skeptical view.
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Bipartisan Think Tank Tackles Health IT Costs
January 31, 2012Bipartisan Policy Center also challenges government and health organizations to devise uniform specs on which to base patient care by June 2013.
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AT&T Tightens Up Tablet Security
January 27, 2012AT&T has introduced new security tools that help healthcare providers better protect tablet-based patient data.
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Kaiser Permanente Offers EHR App For Androids
January 25, 2012iPhone app coming soon; patients also can securely access health records and email docs via mobile-friendly version of Kaiser website.
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7 Tools To Tighten Healthcare Data Security
January 25, 2012Most of the largest healthcare data security and privacy breaches have involved lost or stolen mobile computing devices. Consider these tools and...
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5 Tips For Sending Health Data To Cloud
January 18, 2012Health IT managers are reluctant to use cloud computing for data storage, says Iron Mountain exec Ken Rubin. Here's his advice for smart handling...
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Rhode Island Thinks Big About Health IT
January 17, 2012Meet Rhode Island Quality Institute's CIO and see why Medicare thinks other states could learn from his big ideas.
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Patient Data Theft Sends IT Specialist To Jail
January 17, 2012Atlanta man gets 13 months for hacking into former employer's computer database and stealing patient data for a competing medical practice.
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