May 16, 2013
With recognition that "the path through accountable care is unknown," IDC Health Insights has launched a new Accountable Care Maturity Model, designed to help healthcare organizations gauge their own status and make strategic decisions for funding business and IT initiatives.
May 08, 2013
Health information technology leaders generally cite similar infrastructure priorities and challenges faced within the industry, but they disagree on approaches to addressing network scalability, executive support and cloud computing security, according to a new HIMSS study released Monday.
May 06, 2013
Every organization is considering “cloud” approaches for their business, yet if you ask “what is cloud” you’ll get a wide range of answers. This variety of cloud options has an impact on healthcare organizations, especially those contemplating a future cloud strategy aligned to regulatory compliance.
April 29, 2013
ConnectedLiving, which works to help senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, has announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, which will help provide internet connectivity to assisted living communities.
April 22, 2013
Oregon Health & Science University and Intel Corp. are teaming up to develop next-generation computing technologies that advance the field of personalized medicine by dramatically increasing the speed, precision and cost-effectiveness of analyzing a patient's individual genetic profile.
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April 18, 2013
Anand Shroff, CTO of Health Fidelity, explains the most fundamental misconception about cloud computing in regard to data security and privacy. He also addresses how data-driven healthcare can improve care coordination.
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April 18, 2013
Anand Shroff, CTO of Health Fidelity, explains the most fundamental misconception about cloud computing in regard to data security and privacy. He also addresses how data-driven healthcare can improve care coordination.
April 15, 2013
Cloud-based computing is gaining more influence in healthcare as a growing number of organizations seek new solutions that dovetail with the growth of mobile technology being used by individuals, a new report has found.
April 03, 2013
All organizations have a business imperative to control risk. For healthcare companies that corporate responsibility extends to the protection of ePHI within their organization.
April 02, 2013
Turning a lens on the immense trove of healthcare data that has been generated so far promises to change the way medicine is practiced. Here are some ways to get excited about the potential of clinical analytics.
March 25, 2013
Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited back to the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) to participate as a judge of a digital healthcare start-up competition. In the last two years healthcare has become a highly featured part of the SXSW Interactive conference, particularly as digital health has risen to the forefront of the healthcare conversation.
March 12, 2013
With an average satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 on security, cloud users feel safe. Non-cloud users remain at bay -- particularly with many questions still looming around the future of cloud computing in healthcare. The conclusions are from a recent report from research firm KLAS.
March 03, 2013
For healthcare providers launching a mobile health program, mHIMSS has created an mHIMSS Roadmap. And on Sunday, in an eight-hour workshop at the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, that document was explained, analyzed and put to use in a series of test cases.
March 01, 2013
A raft of technologies including broadband, cloud computing, cheaper storage and mobile devices, among others, is driving the transformation. At the same time, market expectations regarding standards of care are changing, as are younger providers' relationship with health-specific IT.
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February 19, 2013
Moore's law is elegant in its simplicity - and world-changing in its significance. And, as hard as it might have been to believe when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore posited it back in 1965, it has more or less held true for the half-century since.
January 16, 2013
Guaranteed HIPAA compliance will be in the spotlight when Layered Technologies, a leading global provider of secure cloud and hosting services, exhibits for the first time at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. HIMSS13 will take place March 3-7 in New Orleans, bringing together thousands of healthcare executives, IT professionals, and legal professionals to address the challenges and opportunities presented by today’s changing healthcare landscape.
January 14, 2013
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is putting a fresh emphasis on health informatics, with Director Francis Collins, MD, creating a new advisory position and recruiting an associate director for Data Science.
January 04, 2013
Netsmart, a provider of clinical solutions for health and human services organizations nationwide, today announced it has acquired Defran Systems, a New York City-based developer of case, clinical and financial management software. Defran serves clients nationwide who operate a wide spectrum of human and social service programs.
January 03, 2013
Deborah Peel, MD, was trained as a Freudian psychoanalyst and worked as a psychiatrist in Austin, Texas, for nearly three decades before becoming a privacy activist, founding the group Patient Privacy Rights in 2006 after being appalled by HIPAA's evolution into what she sees as a weak baseline for privacy and security.
December 31, 2012
Patient Privacy Rights founder Deborah Peel, MD, is calling for cloud-computing guidelines around the issues of secure infrastructure, security standards and business associate agreements.
