Healthcare security issues in 2012 Interview with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll providing his insight on healthcare security issues
Recently the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc. released their annual top 10 security trends for 2012 highlighting the key areas of risks and trends that will impact how organizations and governments combat and respond to cyber threats. In this interview, Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll dives deeper
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Healthcare Security Issues in 2012 with Alan Brill Interview Part 1
Healthcare security issues in 2012 Interview with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll providing his insight on healthcare security issues
Recently the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc. released their annual top 10 security trends for 2012 highlighting the key areas of risks and trends that will impact how organizations and governments combat and respond to cyber threats. In this interview, Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll dives deeper into
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Independa Unveils New Home Health Monitoring Option
Independa today announced plans during the 2012 International CES for Health Measures – a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly.
Simple, affordable Health Measures doesn’t require cellular coverage, broadband service or wireless devices in the home, making it ideal for care recipients who live in rural areas with poor cellular coverage, have limited funds to invest in wireless health devices, or
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Video: Why You Should Allow BYOD–Bring Your Own Device–in Healthcare Environments
The following video with Intel security expert David Houlding explains why healthcare CIOs should allow BYOD and provides key tips.
Consumer IT is a key and growing component of the future of IT in healthcare. This trend is also known as the Consumerization of IT, or BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and involves healthcare workers globally, and at all levels of healthcare organizations, requesting the ability to use their mobile devices to deliver better mobile healthcare. These personal
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White Paper: How to Achieve an ROI for Healthcare BI
White paper written by Jim B-Reay, Aspen Advisors
Abstract: As hospitals make significant investments in electronic medical record (EMR) technology, along with related updates to hospital billing, materials management, costing, and quality systems, they typically find that the promised analytics and reporting are not adequate. To tie together data from these disparate systems and even to optimize access to data within an integrated system, a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is
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Video: What Will Healthcare Look Like in 2017?
Healthcare IT News recently saw down with healthcare decision makers Michael Manning, MD Medical Director, Murphy Medical Center, Greg Wolverton CIO ARcare, and James L Holly, MD CEO, Southwest Texas Medical Associates to share their insight on what they hope the healthcare system will look like in 2017.
Hopefully by 2017, there will be more interopoerability in all aspects of healthcare delivery and we have made progress on creating a more patient centered
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Guest Post: 3 Key Takeaways from 2011 mHealth Summit
The following is a guest post written by Charles Huang discussing his 3 key takeaways from attending this year's mHealth Summit that was held in Washingon D.C. earlier this month that was recently posted on his blog:
At the beginning of December, the 2011 mHealth conference took place in Washington DC. For conference attendees, it was a chance to be lost amongst thousands of others in the cavernous Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center (sans WiFi or conference supplied beverages,
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans.
Results
Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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Infographic: How Important is Protecting Patient Privacy?
Infographic highlighting the importance of protecting patient privacy
Patient privacy continues to make headlines in the news signifying an epidemic in security breaches in healthcare organizations increasing over 32%in the past year costing an estimated 6.5 billion annually according to a recent study by Ponemon Institute. On Wednesday, a class action suit has been filed seeking as much as 16 million in damages for a data security breach involving the electronic medical records of 16,000
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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Security Breaches
5 ways healthcare organizations can reduce occurrences of security breaches to combat the growing epidemic of security breaches in healthcare.
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