Category: Security

SOAPware has announced the introduction of myHEALTHware™, a product they’re calling “the complete solution to patient care coordination.” myHEALTHware combines the best of social networking with 20 years of medical software know-how resulting in a robust, feature-rich platform that delivers maximum privacy, security and ease-of-use. myHEALTHware provides the tools and resources needed to view patient…

This post is part of the #HIMSS15 Blog Carnival which explores “The Future of…” across 5 different healthcare IT topics. As I think about the future of a connected healthcare system, I get very excited. Although, that excitement is partially tamed by the realization that many of these connections could have been happening for a…

By John Halamka On Monday, I wrote a brief op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about the reality of cloud computing. You can read the full article here. I classified cloud computing in three different concepts Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – your applications outsourced to someone else’s servers. Platform as a service (PaaS) –…

The following is a guest blog post by Thanh Tran, CEO, Zoeticx, Inc. Where should CIOs and IT professionals look to address EHR interoperability?  Middleware! A middleware architecture has been shown to be the best technological solution for addressing the problem of EHR interoperability. The middleware platform facilitates the transparent, yet secure, access of patient…

The Evansville, Ind.-based St. Mary’s Health has informed approximately 4,400 individuals that several e-mail accounts of hospital employees have been compromised in a cyber attack. The Evansville, Ind.-based St. Mary’s Health has informed approximately 4,400 individuals that several e-mail accounts of hospital employees have been compromised in a cyber attack. read more …read more Source::…

This post was inspired by Dave Newman’s post which listed his 4 favorite health IT bloggers. In his list, I’m in great company alongside Marsha Tatt, Shahid Shah and Ed Marx. What I loved about Dave’s description of each is that you knew he actually read each of the sites regularly since he summed us…

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), a Frisco, Texas-based industry group working to establish a common security framework (CSF), analyzed how healthcare organizations tackle data security against cyber threats and risks, and found most were reactionary in their approach. The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), a Frisco, Texas-based industry group working to establish a common…

Where Is HITECH’s $35 Billion Dollar Investment Going? Five Republican senators co-author a Health Affairs piece questioning what value EHRs and the governments $35 billion HITECH investment have returned to taxpayers. Anthem Refuses Full IT Security Audit Anthem has been refusing to let the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general perform “standard vulnerability scans and…

Today I was talking with a healthcare IT vendor which really needs to integrate deeply with an EHR to be valuable. Without that integration the product is not nearly as useful for doctors. Therefore we started talking about their current EHR integration and the potential for future EHR integrations. At that point he asked me…

Nonprofit standards development organization Health Level Seven International has appointed Patricia Van Dyke, M.B.A., B.S.N., R.N., director of electronic data interchange, privacy, information security and standards for Moda Health, as the chair-elect to the HL7 board of directors. Nonprofit standards development organization Health Level Seven International (HL7) has appointed Patricia Van Dyke, M.B.A., B.S.N., R.N.,…