Sachin Nayyar, CEO at Securonix
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous ripple effect across all industries, with one of the most impacted being healthcare. Providers have had to quickly adapt to supporting patients ‘virtually’ in a secure manner, while simultaneously developing procedures to support accurate reporting to government organizations. These changes have placed added pressure on security and privacy professionals, as they struggle to keep up with urgent demand.
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT
Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest
update to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
- The Azure IoT Connector for FHIR makes it easy for
health developers to set up a pipeline to manage protected health information
(PHI) from IoT devices and enable care teams to view patient data in context
with clinical records in FHIR.
This week, Microsoft released the preview of
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AiCure Launches Platform to Remotely Capture Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- AiCure launches digital biomarker platform to remotely detect subtle changes in a patient's condition, leverages computer vision and AI to gather and analyze visual and auditory cues directly through the patient's smartphone camera.
- AiCure appoints Ed Ikeguchi, M.D. as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to advance AiCure's commitment to improving holistic health through an understanding of the science behind human responses to illness and
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SubjectWell Expands Its Clinical Trials Marketplace to United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa
- SubjectWell announced it is expanding its risk-free clinical trials marketplace into the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. - With 86% of clinical trials operating sites outside of the U.S., the company continues to develop a more streamlined and complete risk-free patient recruitment offering, now with global reach. SubjectWell, an Austin, TX-based risk-free clinical trials marketplace announced it has expanded its patient recruitment services into the United Kingdom, Ireland, and
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Health Data Privacy: Why Eroding Public Trust Harms Medical Research
Scott Kahn, Ph.D, Chief Information Officer at LunaPBC
Using Data Privacy to Empower Health Research
The importance of data security and data privacy policies have recently come under scrutiny due to revelations around Google’s Project Nightingale. The initiative with Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, granted Google access to medical records of more than 50 million individuals in 21 states and may hinder the trajectory of health discovery by eroding “consumer”
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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Health Data Security: Validic Receives ISO 27001 Certification
Validic, a provider of health data solutions for remote monitoring and virtual engagement, today announced it has received the ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 security certification. The certification follows a rigorous third-party auditing process and underscores Validic's dedication to maintaining the most comprehensive, industry-leading data security standards.As the incidence of data breaches increases both in frequency and severity, it is critical that organizations handling sensitive data have secure,
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Is GDPR The Latest Call for the Healthcare Industry to Address Its Paper Problem?
After four years of extensive preparation and debate, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25, 2018. U.S. healthcare systems globally expanded or actively marketing and delivering care to EU patients will need to comply. While few U.S. healthcare providers have expanded globally, those that have include prominent organizations such as Johns Hopkins Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Mayo Clinic and UPMC. Other healthcare systems are likely
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