Category: Security

I pretty regularly take a look at various healthcare IT whitepapers to glean insights into what’s happening in the industry and what advice vendors are offering healthcare organizations. I’ve been keeping a special eye on the changing reimbursement model and move to value based care and so I was interested in this whitepaper titled “How…

Healthcare IT and EHR security is a really important topic right now. Many organizations have started to spend time and resources on this problem after a series of healthcare and non-healthcare breaches. The Anthem breach being the most recent. Overall, this is a great thing for the industry since I think there’s more that could…

President Barack Obama’s executive order to use information sharing and analysis organizations to boost cybersecurity will raise awareness and help create better coordination between private entities and government, according to Deborah Kobza, executive director of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/health-threat-analysis-organizations-boost-cybersecurity-prep/2015-02-20?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

A recent Chilmark blog post on national healthcare interoperability mentioned two approaches to healthcare interoperability: element-centric interoperability and document-centric exchange. As I think back on the thousands of discussions I’ve had on interoperability, these two phrases do a great job describing the different approaches to interoperability. Unfortunately, what I’ve seen is that many people get…

President Obama, last Friday, signed an executive order to promote more information sharing about cyberthreats – both within the private sector and between the government and private sector. Top News Executive Order to Promote Cyberthreat Info Sharing Key Takeaway: President Obama, last Friday, signed an executive order to promote more information sharing about cyberthreats –…

I thought it would be fun to look at some quotes from Presidents on President’s day that might inspire you. I hope you enjoy the following quotes. Related Posts Happy President’s Day HIE as Avenue for New Patient Acquisition Happy Independence Day …read more Source:: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2015/02/16/george-washington-and-abraham-lincoln-quotes/       

Top News A national security think tank’s report on military health system reform — written by former government officials General Hugh Shelton, Stephen Ondra, and Peter Levin, all of whom now work for corporations — says the DoD’s $4 billion AHTLA system has a “tortured history” of poor design and lack of interoperability with the…

The following is a guest blog post by Jennifer Della’Zanna, medical writer and online instructor for Education2Go. During the Annual Meeting of the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (#ONC2015), one of the presenters commented that the new generation of doctors have never seen a paper chart, and they have fundamentally different views…

Last year, Microsoft stopped updating Windows XP and so we wrote about how Windows XP would no longer be HIPAA compliant. If you’re still using Windows XP to access PHI, you’re a braver person that I. That’s just asking for a HIPAA violation. It turns out that Windows Server 2003 is 5 months away from…