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Security basics for healthcare CIOs

August 25, 2016 By David Chou 1 Comment

Security basics for healthcare CIOs

The world has changed, and the environment in which we live in is threatened. IT professionals and leaders ought to discover creative ways to leverage their resources and better defend against cyber attacks. It is a tough call to balance the cost of IT security operations against ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: data security, health IT, malware, ransomware, security

HIPAA, Security, and Your Devices

May 29, 2014 By Deepika Patel Leave a Comment

HIPAA, Security, and Your Devices

It’s a scary world out there when you think of hackers getting access to your bank accounts, email, or social media sites. It’s quite another thought when hackers get access to medical devices and run havoc. It almost sounds like something we would see in a movie, like “The ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT, mHealth Tagged With: black hat, FDA, hackers, medical device, medical device security, PHI, protected health information, security

What’s in Store for Health IT in 2014?

January 23, 2014 By Brian Ahier Leave a Comment

What’s in Store for Health IT in 2014?

2013 was a good year for health IT and has laid the foundation for 2014 to be the biggest year ever for the industry. ICD-10 The current deadline to implement ICD-10 is very unlikely to change. The federal government already allowed a one-year delay in the compliance deadline ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Meaningful Use, mHealth, Patient Engagement Tagged With: analytics, ICD-10, interoperability, meaningful use, mHealth, mobile, Patient Engagement, Privacy, security

Keep Your Cyber-hands to Yourself: EMR and Health IT Security is Essential

September 10, 2013 By Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ 1 Comment

Keep Your Cyber-hands to Yourself: EMR and Health IT Security is Essential

"Another medical bill?" I thought as I saw an envelope sitting on top of the mail pile with the logo of the health care system I use. "I know I already paid this...." Irritated, I opened the envelope, envisioning the phone calls, canceled checks and other hoops I'd have to ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT Tagged With: data breach, security, security resources

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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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