Category: Security

Broader use of standardized psychological testing for applicants submitting disability claims to the U.S. Social Security Administration should improve the accuracy and consistency of disability determinations, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150413/Broader-use-of-psychological-testing-may-improve-process-for-social-security-disability-determination.aspx       

A picture worth a thousand words. I’ll be chewing on this one for a while. Thoughts? RT @dhinchcliffe Why Traditional IT Model is Untenable & New Models are Needed #digitalhealth #EHR #HIMSS15 #hitsm pic.twitter.com/d5T3majGzS — Paulo Machado (@pjmachado) March 30, 2015 Related Posts Traditional Marketing, Drug Companies, and Behavioral Scientists – #HITsm Chat Highlights Excuse…

The age to receive full Social Security benefits should be closer to 70, according to a report published in the journal Daedalus. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150406/Increasing-Social-Security-retirement-age-could-bridge-income-gap.aspx       

By John Halamka Micky Tripathi sent this update last evening. Dear Argonaut Steering Committee Member, I’m writing with a quick project update for your information. FHIR DSTU2 Ballot. The effort to keep the Argonaut-relevant components of FHIR on schedule was successful. The FHIR DSTU2 ballot was opened on April 3, 2015. All of the Argonaut-relevant…

0 I had a conversation with the CEO of a very progressive hospital recently and as I sat in my home office afterwards reflecting on that discussion, and the rest of that week’s events which included near miss security incidents at two other hospitals we work with, it occurred to me that we are addressing…

As healthcare moves from on-premise to cloud services, the evaluation and selection of “HIPAA compliant” cloud service providers becomes an import task. I don’t like the description “HIPAA compliant” because it’s imprecise and not meaningful. However, it’s something that many non-technical people look for when evaluating providers so I’m using it here. My friend Alex Ginzburg, VP…

All too often, cybersecurity is treated as a feature that can be added on to healthcare technology as a separate entity, when instead, it should be built into such tools, according to health IT analyst Shahid Shah. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/bolted-cybersecurity-not-enough-healthcare-providers/2015-03-27?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Insurance commissioners from multiple states are teaming up to investigate the massive data breach of health insurer Premera. Insurance commissioners from multiple states are teaming up to investigate the massive data breach of health insurer Premera. read more …read more Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/healthcare-informatics/~3/Ud4351OIiaY/states-investigate-premera-data-breach       

CIOs and chief information security officers must develop myriad innovations and approaches to outwit “the wolves at their cyberdoor,” according to the 2015 IT Priorities Survey by Protiviti, a risk and business consulting firm. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/cyberthreats-heavy-minds-health-provider-insurer-technology-execs/2015-03-26?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

I mentioned that I was going to be on the Dell Healthcare Think Tank event again this year. It was my 3rd time participating and it didn’t disappoint. In fact, this one dove into a number of insurance topics which we hadn’t ever covered before. I really learned a lot from the discussions and hopefully…