Category: Security
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Digital Health at CES Wrap Up Video
CES 2015 is now in the headlights. One person I talked to said they thought that the event was missing some of the excitement of previous years. I disagreed with him. I thought it was more exciting than previous years. Although, my excitement comes from the entrepreneurs and the Digital Health space. If you look…
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Healthcare Data Security: Battles are Being Lost, But the War Can Still be Won
0 Right now, the healthcare industry is clearly losing the battle when it comes to data breaches. But as the old saying goes, you can lose battles and still win the war. No matter who you are, chances are you don’t like to accept defeat. I’m a big sports fan, and during the last two…
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Defining the Legal Health Record, Ensuring Quality Health Data, and Managing a Part-Paper Part-Electronic Record – Healthcare Information Governance
This post is part of Iron Mountain’s Healthcare Information Governance: Big Picture Predictions and Perspectives Series which looks at the key trends impacting Healthcare Information Governance. Be sure to check out all the entries in this series. Healthcare information governance (IG) has been important ever since doctors started tracking their patients in paper charts. However,…
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The Value of an Integrated Specialty EHR Approach
As many of you know, I’ve long been an advocate for the specialty specific EHR. There are just tremendous advantages in having an EHR that’s focused only on your specialty. Then, you don’t get things like child growth charts cluttering your EHR when you don’t see any children. Or taken the other way, you have…
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Never Sell Your EHR Company – According to eCW Founder
I recently came across an interesting article in Entrepreneur magazine authored by Girish Navani, CEO and Co-founder of eClinicalWorks. If you read this site, you know doubt are familiar with the quite popular eCW EHR software. In this article Girish gives some interesting insight into the future of eCW as a company: After grad school,…
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Morning Headlines 1/16/15
Google joins PwC’s Vista-based bid for military health records Google will join PwC, General Dynamics, Medsphere, and DSS in their bid to install VistA as the DoD’s next EHR. Whistleblower Lawsuit Calls Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Healthcare Startup ‘Fraudulent’ And Dangerous Two ex-employees of physician billionaire Patrick Soon Shiong’s startup NantHealth file a whistleblower suit alleging…
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Respect the Threat: Obama Gives Data Security Some Needed Momentum
0 The recent focus on data security from President Obama and the Attorney General of the State of New York is encouraging for healthcare, even if the industry isn’t the specific focus of these legislative efforts. Every year, I see Mac McMillan at HIMSS and wonder if he’ll ever be positive. Of course I’m joking,…
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De-Identification of Data in Healthcare
Today I had a chance to sit down with Khaled El Emam, PhD, CEO and Founder of Privacy Analytics, to talk about healthcare data and the de-identification of that healthcare data. Data is at the center of the future of healthcare IT and so I was interested to hear Khaled’s perspectives on how to manage…
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IT Security at St. Luke’s: An Assumption of Compromise
It would be hard to argue that 2014 wasn’t been a year of healthcare data breaches. In advance of the iHT2 San Diego Health IT Summit later this month, one security expert dives into how his health system spent the year breach free. It would be hard to argue that 2014 wasn’t been a year…
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Stanford Hospital and Clinics CTO: Healthcare is a “Very Big Target” for Hackers
When it comes to the increasing threats to data security, what keeps Jason Roos, CTO at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., up at night? We asked him to find out. If healthcare is entering a new era of data security, then many may remember 2014 as the…