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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Video: Cloud Imposters: Understanding the Risks of Hosted ASPs
Although many health information technology companies claim that their software products run “in the cloud,” there are some important distinctions between true cloud based systems and those that are really just client server technology in disguise. This video podcast reviews the important distinctions between the cloud networking model and hosted solutions, where a vendor “hosts” the application with either your hardware or theirs, and gives users access via an Internet connection.Massoud
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Video: One Future: The Healthcare Supply Cloud
This video was used during Shape the Future, the interactive experience we presented at the 2011 Summit. It presents one possible direction for the healthcare supply chain, 3 to 5 years down the road. Its purpose was to engage the audience and spark a discussion on the validity of the vision and the obstacles that would need to be overcome to make it a reality.
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Webinar: Network Modernization: Building the Foundation for Your HIT Applications Part 2
Speakers:Donna Schultz, Infrastructure Engineer, University of Kentucky MedicalCheryl Blum, Vice-President of Technology and Standards,TIAHerb Congdon, Chair, TIA Healthcare Task GroupDate: Wednesday, April 13, 2011Time: 1:00pm EST – 2:00pm ESTThe volume and exchange of healthcare information is growing with every application and interface that you add to your facility. How well these will operate, support your users and provide you with the expected return on investment all
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Scribe Platform Overview
The Scribe platform delivers digital dictation, transcription workflow, voice recognition (M*Modal Speech Understanding), apps for iPhone/iPad/iTouch dictation, secure archival and HL7 integrations with EMR/EHR systems. Scribe technologies are designed for medical transcription companies, hospitals, and practices. The following is a video is a scribe platform overview:
About Scribe Healthcare Technologies
Scribe's web-based technology solutions simplify the business of
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Harvard, Boston Children’s open $5,000 app challenge to free EHR data
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer.
Children’s and Harvard will award $5,000 for the best application in June and
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