February 16, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Last year, health data breaches were up 97 percent, with all 50 states experiencing some sort of breach, and 385 incidents affecting more than 19 million people. Experts agree: If ever there were a time to protect and prepare against breaches, that time is now.

February 6, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Health Evolution Partners, the private equity firm launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, announced Monday it has partnered with Verizon to encourage innovation and adoption of connected health technologies.

January 26, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Former Microsoft Health Solutions Group executive Peter Neupert will join Health Evolution Partners, a venture capital firm launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, as an operating partner.

December 9, 2011 | Mary Mosquera
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is challenging mobile health application developers to come up with technology tools that are not only creative but also easy and enjoyable for Americans to use in their everyday lives to encourage healthy behaviors.

November 28, 2011 | Michelle McNickle
The demand for capable IT specialists is growing, and, according to Guillermo Moreno, certain skills are bound to take the spotlight come 2012. Moreno gives us the six most in-demand skills.

September 18, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
This webinar will discuss cost-cutting strategies for securing sensitive patient communications, focusing on the delivery of Explanation of Benefits (EOBs), as well as other direct and portal-based electronic interactions that need to comply with HIPAA Privacy Rules.

August 26, 2011 | White Papers
Learn how a MDM approach can solve challenges associated with transitioning to ICD-10 by utilizing a single business process management layer with centralized rules, mappings, and translations that can be applied uniformly to all applications.

August 26, 2011 | White Papers
This white paper written by industry expert Shahid Shah addresses the challenges healthcare IT professionals face when preparing to meet Meaningful Use standards and the capabilities needed to complete a successful transition.

April 12, 2011 | White Papers
In an effort to be compliant with HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, Meaningful Use and other regulations, healthcare organizations are making substantial IT investments in new technologies and infrastructure upgrades. However, with deadlines looming, many of these organizations risk gross overspending across the next 18 months. This white paper takes a close look at compliance challenges, likely areas of vendor overpayment and ways that healthcare organizations can prevent IT overspending on the path to compliance.

May 24, 2010 | White Papers
Learn how Florida Hospital streamlined its disaster recovery processes and gained higher system availability that translated into better patient care.

August 17, 2011 | Keith W. Boone
In "The XML Consensus is breaking down" Grahame Grieve distinguishes three camps, heavy engineering crowd, the internet mob, and the data dictionary crowd. He discusses how XML seems to be failing to bring these crowds together.

May 16, 2011 | John Halamka
It's been a bad month for the cloud.

December 9, 2010 | John Halamka
I'm often asked how healthcare reform will impact IT planning and implementation over the next few years.

July 29, 2010 | Tom Sullivan
Perhaps it's waiting on the back burner but ICD-10 did not make the cut of health IT's most important projects for 2010 and 2011, at least not among healthcare executives.

November 2, 2009 | John Halamka
I've previously described the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization's (BIDPO) decision to create a community registry for quality data warehousing in support of meaningful use.

December 15, 2011 | Industry News Release
MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that Healthcare Partners, IPA (HCPIPA), one of the largest physician-owned independent physician associations (IPA) in the Northeast, has selected MedAssurant's Prospective Advantage® and Capitated Risk Adjustment (CARA™) solutions to proactively identify gaps in care and quality to improve clinical documentation, utilization and risk score accuracy for their Medicare Advantage members.

October 11, 2011 | Industry News Release
DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the company has achieved compliance with all forty-two data security standards outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Performed by Trusted Consulting Compliance (TrustCC), the evaluation of compliance was designed to measure the controls over DriveSavers data recovery processes as they are performed for customers with damaged media containing electronic protected health information (PHI). Damaged media received from healthcare providers may contain sensitive electronic data such as patient records and medical transcripts for doctors, hospitals and/or clinics. DriveSavers is the only certified HIPAA compliant data recovery service provider in the industry that meets all forty-two data security standards.

September 14, 2011 | Industry News Release
Cyber-Ark® Software, the leading global information security provider for protecting and managing critical applications, identities and sensitive information, today announced Inter-Business Vault® as a Service, an innovative cloud-based solution for rapidly exchanging sensitive files with external third parties. Based on its patented Digital Vault technology, Cyber-Ark is the only vendor to provide a secure cloud delivery model that protects sensitive file transfers in transit and at rest. This capability enables organizations to support the exchange of files quickly and cost-effectively to meet business needs, while alleviating concerns over security and compliance requirements.

June 2, 2011 | Industry News Release
Health 2.0, IMPAQ International (IMPAQ) and NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC) are proud to announce the launch of the Medicare Claims Data Developer Challenge, which will solicit entries to develop an online dashboard for comparative effectiveness, health services and health policy research.

May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
Visual Healthcare Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ OTC: VSHC) announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Sygenics Life Sciences Software (Sygenics LSS) to market a 2nd generation of Lab Automation applications to serve the scientific community. This allows researchers to replace paper-based scientific records and paper-based scrapbooks with more dependable and secure electronic storage capabilities, as well as the ability to instantaneously share information with other scientists of their choice.