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Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?

June 16, 2017 By HealthIsCool 3 Comments

Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?

The rise of alt-currencies in 2017 Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been exploding in 2017. On June 11th, Bitcoin crossed the $3,000 mark for the first time in history, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), before dropping 10 percent the following ...

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Filed Under: 3, data security, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT Tagged With: alt-currency, bitcoin, blockchain, crowdsale, cryptocurrency, ethereum, healthcare startups, ICO, Initial Coin Offering, Patientory, startups, token launch

Reframing healthcare trends for 2017, see things differently

January 3, 2017 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Reframing healthcare trends for 2017, see things differently

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'... but (hmm), 'That's funny.'" — Isaac Asimov How humans perceive, intuit, find patterns and connect ideas is still basically a mystery. Kyna Leski attempts to unravel this messy ...

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Filed Under: 3, data security, healthcare innovation, HL7 FHIR, HL7 Standards, Nursing Tagged With: "digital health", 2017 predictions, AI, automation, blockchain, consumer trends, conversational UI, creativity, cybersecurity, digital avatar, FHIR, funding, health IT trends, healthcare trends, L2INC, VC, voice-assisted UI

Is your face the future of federated patient identification?

October 21, 2016 By HealthIsCool 1 Comment

Is your face the future of federated patient identification?

Recent developments and concerns regarding face-recognition technology Face-recognition technology has gone from science fiction to ubiquity almost overnight. The biometric technology is used for authentication and identification of individuals by comparing facial features from ...

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Filed Under: 3, data security, e-patient, healthcare innovation, interoperability Tagged With: biometrics, face recognition, Kairos, Michael Trader, national patient identifier, patient safety, RightPatient, voice recognition

CIO Report: Ransomware and health data in the cloud

June 7, 2016 By David Chou Leave a Comment

CIO Report: Ransomware and health data in the cloud

For the first episode of my video interview series CIO Report, I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Bowen, founder and chief privacy and security officer of ClearDATA. We spoke about a variety of topics centered around health data security. Two topics that are top of mind ...

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Filed Under: 3, CIO, data security, Health care, Healthcare IT Tagged With: CIO Report, cleardata, cloud, ransomware

A CIO’s take on ransomware

April 28, 2016 By David Chou 4 Comments

A CIO’s take on ransomware

As continuous research is done to create better defense against malicious computer attacks, cybercriminals have also come up with more ways to quickly get cash in their pockets. A new breed of computer virus has started infecting computers and mobile devices. These viruses are ...

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Filed Under: 3, data security, Health care, Healthcare IT Tagged With: breach, data security, health data, ransomware

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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