5 ways healthcare organizations can reduce occurrences of security breaches to combat the growing epidemic of security breaches in healthcare.
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Guest Post: 4 Key Takeaways from RSNA 2011
This guest post was provided by Mariano Maluf, Chief Technology Officer of GNAX:
Chicago is America’s windy city. And nowhere was this more obvious than at RSNA’s 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. Lakeshore Drive was even shut down because of the high winds and Lake Michigan surges.
Less literal but equally real, within the walls of McCormick Place another strong wind was blowing: that of technology in transition. Over 50,000 attendees welcomed trends and terms such as cloud,
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Video: Evolving Imaging Practices: Image Sharing, Analytics and the Cloud
Learn how you can use imaging solutions to help accelerate the cycle of care, improve the patient experience and shave costs out of the system, in this discussion by a panel of renowned experts from the 2011 Microsoft Connected Health Conference in this hour long video.
Topics of discussion include EMRs integration, image sharing, analytics, and the cloud.
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Infographic: App Overload for Doctors
Infographic that displays how many apps doctors download creating app overload for doctors
With smartphones and apps quickly gaining popularity in healthcare, there are now thousands of medical apps available in the app store – making it tough for doctors to find the ones they need most for treating patients. To illustrate this app overload challenge faced by doctors today, Epocrates conducted research on this and created an infographic looking at the numbers – how many apps doctors download,
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2011 HL7 Interface Technology Survey Results
Core Health Technology's 2011 HL7 Interface Technology Survey Results present a current view of the HL7 market-specifically regarding HL7 technologies, healthcare organizational priorities, and their organizational preparedness for future integration challenges. The results are presented from three different prespectives- CIOs, managers, and HL7 professionals.
Did you know:
42.7% of CIOs and 48.9% of Managers state their interface engine has capability they are not using?
58% of CIOs
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Video: How to Prevent Costly Healthcare IT Security Breaches
It's every CIO's worst nightmare: a laptop computer with patient health information goes missing or is stolen. Not only does this breach jeopardize your patients' privacy, it almost always means costly penalties for your organization.
Now, thanks to advancements in anti-theft technology, many CIOs have enabled laptops to protect themselves in these types of situations. The latest anti-theft technology triggers an automatic remote lockdown scenario, or "poison-pill," to keep patient data safe
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GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT
GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria
GNAX Health, a healthcare technology infrastructure service provider located in Atlanta, Georgia, proudly announces certification as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria as a "vCloud Powered" services provider. The announcement was made by Mariano Maluf, CTO, GNAX Health, and President, Global VMUG, at VMworld 2011.
"We're
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Video Webinar: Healthcare Security & Privacy
Overview: Improving the quality and reducing the cost of patient care depends on moving to electronic patient records. A safe and accelerated move to electronic patient records requires a proactive, preventative approach to security and privacy. Sensitive information in electronic form presents new vulnerabilities (compared to paper-based equivalents) as do the growing trends in clinician mobility and wireless networking, health information exchange, new care coordination models, cloud
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Video Webinar: Healthcare Cloud Computing Webinar
This Intel cloud computing webinar describes how cloud can address healthcare industry needs related to health information exchange. Concerns around security and compliance and techniques for mitigating these concerns are also discussed. You'll learn about:• Key business drivers of healthcare clouds• Top concerns with healthcare cloud computing• Strategy and solutions to maximize value from cloud deploymentsListen to Brian DeVore, Director, Industry Affairs, Intel, and Chris Gough, Senior Cloud
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Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
Cloud Computing has Been Playing A Larger Role in Healthcare, but what is Its Security Profile? by John Degaspari
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As more provider organizations look to the cloud computing model, they face a host of security-related questions. What are the appropriate applications for the cloud, what is the best cloud model, and what do they need to know to choose the best vendor? Hospital CIOs and security experts weigh in.
From a
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