Editor's Note: Greg Maudsley is a cyber security expert at Menlo Security, a Silicon Valley-based cyber security company that protects organizations from cyber attack by eliminating the threat of malware.Hospitals and other healthcare organizations (HCOs) are increasingly singled out by cyber criminals for ransomware and other attacks. Not only are patients’ sensitive records being targeted, but also – as the FBI warns – their intellectual property or credit card information. The
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Best Practices for Creating a Successful Healthcare Corporate Compliance Program
Editor's Note: Lee F. Lasris is a Board Certified Health Law attorney and a shareholder at Greenspoon Marder’s Florida Health Law Center. Mr. Lasris has served as counsel to numerous health-care providers, including MSOs and independent practice associations, managed care organizations, value added provider networks physician practices, diagnostic imaging providers, hospitals, physical therapy providers, home health agencies, management companies and other health-care related entities. When is
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3 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Makes It Easier on Hospital Administrators
Editor's Note: Richard Sullivan is the chief operations officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.Is there anyone left to passionately defend onsite data centers?Perhaps, but attendance at advocacy meetings is probably sparse. Soon, the onsite data center proponents will get lumped with eight-track tape aficionados and supporters of leeches as medical technology.While some hospitals still maintain local data centers, recent
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Revenue Integrity: Realizing the Promise of Hospital/Physician Integration
Editor's Note: Dan Ward is the VP of Strategy at ZirMed, a company empowering healthcare organizations to optimize revenue and population health with an end-to-end platform of cloud-based financial and clinical performance management solutions. HIT consultants see firsthand the growing pains of health systems as they increasingly purchase or partner with physician practices. While the aim is to increase efficiency, avoid duplication, lower costs and improve care, the reality is often very
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Healthcare Data Breaches: Securing Patient Data in a Mobile World
Editor's Note: David Hood is the CEO of Hypori, a secure mobility provider of an enterprise Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) platform designed to keep all apps and data in the enterprise, leaving no data at risk.Maintaining high levels of productivity, collaboration, and responsiveness is vital for a successful healthcare organization and healthcare leaders know that a mobile solution is a must-have if they want to stay competitive and provide top quality care to their patients. A study by
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An American Dilemma: Incarceration And Mental Health
It’s generally common knowledge that the United States incarcerates a higher percentage of the population (716 per 100,000 people) than any other country on earth. With just 5 percent of the world’s total population, the U.S. still has 25 percent of the global prison population.Especially in recent years, much ink has been spilt on how mandatory minimum sentencing and three-strikes laws have put thousands of non-violent, low-level drug offenders behind bars, creating prison overcrowding and
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3 Ways Hospitals Can Ease Physician Workload to Improve Performance
Editor's Note: Chris Strammiello is the Vice President of Global Alliances for Nuance Communications. Under his leadership, Nuance Document Imaging solutions help healthcare organizations manage patient health information, provide software compatible with electronic health records and remain in compliance with HIPAA.In the last few years, health care industry developments have increased record-keeping responsibility on physicians, making their job more difficult. A national survey commissioned
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5 Lessons Learned From The WannaCry Ransomware Attacks for Hospitals
Editor's Note: Richard Sullivan is chief government and revenue officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.Will information technology ever realize an imagined future where security is strong enough, reliable enough, secure enough to block any and all attacks?It’s a dubious proposition made more uncertain by the recent WannaCry ransomware incident that started a couple of weeks ago and continued around the globe for several days.
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KLAS: 5 Crucial Factors to Consider When Choosing A Health IT Consulting Firm
Editor's Note: Warren Whitford is the Market Research & Sales Director at KLAS Research. His areas of research focus at KLAS include healthcare management consulting, HIT consulting and value-based care transformation. Many providers are reevaluating their EMR and other IT system options as they look to upgrade from solutions that are obsolescent or being phased out by the vendor, and to advance new capabilities like population health, business intelligence, and telehealth. Providers look to
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How can Health IT Improve Security and Restore Trust?
Editor's Note: John Smith is a Principal Solutions Architect at IT analytics company ExtraHop. Prior to joining ExtraHop, John was a Cloud Architect at both Philips and McKesson and was previously a Principal Architect at the Centers for Disease Control.Hardly a day goes by without news of a new cybersecurity threat or breach, and the healthcare industry is hit with more than its fair share. While unfortunate, it’s not hard to understand why. From personal health information (PHI) to insurance
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