Healthcare industry CIOs, CSOs must improve security
Given that stolen medical records can bring $50 apiece on the underground market, the frequency and magnitude of data breaches involving electronic health records is increasing. In an effort to help...
View ArticleNew healthcare rule to cut red tape, save up to $4.6B, says HHS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday announced a proposed rule that it said would cut the red tape involved in processing medical payments and save the industry $4.6 billion...
View ArticleLaw firms see big money in healthcare breach cases
Attorneys filing the complaints and defending their targets agree that they are in untested legal waters. Filing privacy breach cases as class actions is new, and all those involved say new legal...
View ArticleFCC steps up mobile IT healthcare efforts
Communications regulators, drawing on recommendations from a recent mobile health task force report, look to launch initiatives that will facilitate broadband-enabled healthcare technologies,...
View ArticleWill Obamacare tax your iPhone as a medical device?
Food and Drug Administration official addresses concerns that the agency will impose heavy regulations on consumer devices in health IT rulemaking and discusses possibility of iPhone tax under Obama's...
View ArticleBig data surge from federal agencies will drive health IT
Department of Health and Human Services unleashes new structured data sets as it encourages the developer community to build new health IT applications to improve patient care.read more
View ArticleCloud EHR lessons learned in Haiti
Strip away preconceptions about why technology doesn't or shouldn't work and people are likely to embrace the change that tech brings. That's what electronic health record and practice management...
View ArticleDesktop virtualization cures paper problem for healthcare provider
With thin clients and electronic medical records, one healthcare provider keeps more accurate patient records.read more
View ArticleGovernment healthcare IT plans hinge on open data
Health and Human Services CTO sees big future in big health data as the government looks to expand its repository of publicly available, machine-readable data sets.read more
View ArticleHealth insurance exchanges in the spotlight and under scrutiny
The health insurance exchanges set to launch on Oct. 1 may not be as robust as the typical Web-based consumer application. But they will improve over time, one expert familiar with the online insurance...
View ArticleObamacare exchanges hit by early technical glitches
Would-be insurance customers in the U.S. ran into early problems today accessing the new federally run healthcare exchange as well as several state-run exchanges.read more
View ArticleHow to get a job in healthcare IT
Healthcare IT practitioners offer advice on what you need to make a move.read more
View ArticleHealthcare finally warming to cloud technology
Ever the risk-averse industry, healthcare is finally beginning to trust cloud for the storage of protected health information.read more
View ArticleSmart glasses let nurses see veins through skin
Eyes-On Glasses System from Epson and Evena helps nurses locate hard-to-find veins. read more
View ArticleHealthcare needs data analytics for the ACO model to succeed
If the accountable care organization (ACO) is to avoid the fate of the health maintenance organization (HMO), then ACOs need to take advantage of the data that HMOs lacked in the 1990s -- and realize...
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