iHT2’s research report provides health data privacy best practices for healthcare organizations to protect themselves from security breaches and identify theft.
With stolen EHR charts selling for as much as $50 per chart on the black market, healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks as the use of web portals for health information exchanges becomes more commonplace. Just last week, two stolen laptops lead to nearly $2 million in HIPAA fines by the HSS. To prevent
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How Health Information Exchanges Will Drive ACOs
Editor's Note: This Q-and-A features Mark Caron, Senior Vice President and CIO of Capital BlueCross. SearchHealthIT.com HIT reporter Don Fluckinger sat down with Caron to discuss how health information exchanges (HIE), a significant component of meaningful use stages 2 and 3, fits into the changing landscape of health care payment models
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Organizing Health Information Exchange with Jonathan Gold, MD Catholic Health Initiatives
Jonathan Gold, MD, regional chief medical informatics officer for Catholic Health Initiatives, discusses his vision for organizing health information exchange and developing physician workflow in this interview with SearchHealthIT.
Health information exchange is not just about establishing a repository of static data that sits and waits for people to access it. Instead, clinicians and health IT experts are considering ways that turn data into actionable, meaningful information that can be
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CMS Dr. Thompson Talks Challenges of Meaningful Use Implementation
CMS Dr. Thompson talks challenges of Meaningful Use implementation IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz
As chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office in San Francisco, Dr. Thompson serves as the chief CMS clinician for Region IX. She is also the principal liaison with professional organizations in the region with respect to quality improvement and healthcare reform.
In advance of the HIT Summit, IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz spoke with Dr.
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Healthcare IT Security Issues with Christopher Paidhrin at PeaceHealth
Guest interview post from our media partners, iHT2′S blog: Christopher Paidhrin, SCO at PeaceHealth Southwest Med Center in Vancouver, WA shares some of his thoughts and views on healthcare IT security issues
Christopher Paidhrin, Security Compliance Officer at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., took part in the panel discussion “Securing Electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI): From the Data Warehouse to the Point of
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Interview:Ed Lowell Talks Mobility, Reliability Key to Future of Hospital Patient Care
Guest interview post from our media partners, iHT2'S blog:
Ed Lowell, Director of Technology Infrastructure at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, participated in the panel discussion, “Patient Management Without Walls: Enabling mHealth & Telemedicine,” at IHT2’s Health IT Summit in San Francisco, March 27-28th.
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The Cloud in Healthcare – Top 10 Takeaways from iHT2 San Francisco
Last week, our media partners, the Institute of Healthcare Technology Transformation hosted their 2 day conference in San Francisco. An emerging leader in the HIT cloud market, Cloud Prime alongside AthenaHealth sponsored the panel, "The Cloud in Healthcare" that discussed the following:
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Epic Dominates in Number of Meaningful Use Attestations in 2011
The domination of Epic Systems continues according to a Meaningful Use Top 10 report released by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation leading all vendors with almost 28% (6,330) of Meaningful Use attestations in 2011. The report was compiled by vendor, state, and provider specialty based on the analysis of the most current data sets provided by the following:
CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program attestations with the
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