Category: eHealth

Secure text messaging isn’t only helping to expedite patient care and caregiver response at a South Carolina hospital, it’s boosting staff efficiency and enabling treatment interaction by caregivers who live in remote areas with unreliable cell coverage. read more …read more      

Draft guidance documents published Friday morning by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in compliance with actions outlined in its FDASIA Health IT Report, propose both to regulate medical device accessories based on risks they present when used as intended with their parent devices and not regulate products intended only for general wellness. read more…

As hospitals and healthcare systems struggle to thwart the increasing number of cyberattacks, the sharing of information is becoming a key tool in the fight, and the White House is taking steps to boost that. read more …read more      

A new year means a new round of HIPAA audits–at some point. read more …read more      

Much of the tone regarding healthcare at this year’s international Consumer Electronics Show focused on ensuring the safety of consumer data shared via wearable devices and other technologies, with both HIMSS (via its Personal Connected Health Alliance) and the Federal Trade Commission speaking out about looming privacy risks. Still, that didn’t take away from the…

While the majority of patients turn to hospital websites to learn about healthcare, that information oftentimes is imbalanced, according to researchers publishing a commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. read more …read more      

The following is a guest blog post by Anna Drachenberg, Founder and CEO of HIPAA Risk Management. It’s taken a while to collect our team’s thoughts, feedback and reactions to the SANS Institute Healthcare Cyber Security Summit 2014 held last month in San Francisco. The holidays, end-of-year, and beginning-of-the-year craziness played a part, but it…

As cybertattacks on the healthcare industry increase in intensity, hospitals and healthcare providers must establish a cybercentric framework. read more …read more      

My favorite thing I saw at CES 2015 was the Valedo medical device for lower back health. To me, it shows the start of where I think mHealth needs to and will go as the sensors and apps become more highly developed. In the current mobile health market, we have an increasingly mature set of…