AT&T announced two new mobile security services for healthcare providers: security services for tablets and secure messaging services that enable providers to send encrypted information in HIPAA-compliant ways. Appointment reminders, lab results, and payment notices were among the type of messages that AT&T provided as examples. AT&T is working with Soprano to power its secure [...]
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NHS: How to secure tablets for healthcare
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Connecting for Health division recently published a guidance document for how healthcare providers in that country should and shouldn’t be using tablet devices. The document is chock-full of warnings about tablet use in healthcare settings, but it also includes some helpful hints for how CIOs should secure the devices.
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De-identified Healthcare Data â Is It Really Unidentifiable
Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “Thereâs always been some really interesting discussion about EHR vendors selling the data from their EHR software. Turns out that many EHR vendors and other healthcare entities are selling de-identified healthcare data now, but I havenât heard much public outcry from them doing it. Is it because the public [...]
Denmark has lots of healthcare IT competence and a potentially formidable talent pool
Source: Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy Content: “In August I was invited by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark to travel to Copenhagen and talk to CEOs of about 20 of their countryâs best and brightest healthcare IT companies about Meaningful Use, ACOs, PCHM, HIPAA 5010, and many other initiatives that [...]
The Pains of Healthcare Data Interoperability Described First Hand
Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “Keep the stories of terrible experiences exchanging healthcare data coming. I love to learn from first hand experiences. So, send them over and Iâll be sure to get your stories out and heard. Examples of great electronic healthcare data exchange would be welcome too. Few things motivate and gets [...]
Challenges of cloud computing in healthcare integration
Source: Eliot Muir, ZDNet Content: “Despite widespread adoption of cloud-based solutions by most industries, the healthcare industry has been slow to embrace cloud computing. While this slow adoption is partially due to concerns about safeguarding confidential patient information and compliance with key regulations such as HIPAA, many healthcare IT departments are simply burdened with outdated [...]
Jeopardy!âs Watson Computer and Healthcare
Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “The hype at the IBM booth at HIMSS was really strong since it had been announced that healthcare was one of the first places that IBM wanted to work on implementing the âWatsonâ technology (read more about the Watson Technology in Healthcare in this AP article). Although, I found [...]
Exclusive Coverage For Kidney Dialysis Centers Offered By Five Star Healthcare
Five Star Healthcareâ¢, a division of Crump Insurance Services, Inc., and part of Crump Group, Inc., the nation’s largest insurance wholesaler, announced it has added a new insurance facility for Kidney Dialysis Centers. The program, offered through an A.M. Best A XI rated carrier, is tailored to meet the unique insurance needs of dialysis providers. [...]
Healthcare IT talent war is on
Meaningful use incentives, HIPAA and ICD-10 conversion are combining to create a high demand for healthcare IT professionals in the marketplace. Eric Marx, vice president of healthcare IT services for IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about what hospitals and other healthcare organizations are doing to find [...]
Real Innovation in EMR Will Come with Healthcare Innovation
Source: John, EMR and HIPAA Content: “It seems like EMR innovation has been a strong theme on EMR and HIPAA ever since I wrote about the lack of EHR innovation at HIMSS. I of course clarified my original post with this post on the future of MER and EMR innovation and then wrote about the [...]