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11 Data Security Tips For A Healthy Organization In 2013
2013 is the Year of the Snake in Chinese culture. In the healthcare world, I predict 2013 will be the Year of the Data Breach. The numbers back me up: 94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed suffered data breaches, according to the Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security, a report recently issued by Ponemon Institute. Read More »
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3 Health IT Must-Haves For Natural Disaster Preparedness
Responding to disasters is something every healthcare institution needs to be ready for. From hurricanes to snowstorms to wildfires, having a plan in place and technology to back it up is critical to an effective response. Read More »
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5 Ways to Manage the Cost of Health IT
Managing costs in today's industry has been put front and center. And although incentive funds have been helping organizations to implement health IT, easy tweaks and innovative tips are always welcome to help cut corners.
Industry experts give use five simple ways to help manage the cost of health IT. Read More »
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6 Cloud Considerations for Health Orgs
The cloud offers considerable benefits to healthcare, which is undergoing dramatic and essential transformation without the necessary financial or technological means to support the level and speed-of-change required... Read More »
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7 Reasons Why iPhone Fingerprint Security Might Not Be So Secure
Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 5S, contains a sensor for unlocking the device with a tap of the finger, including those belonging to a growing number of federal employees. The Defense Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are just a couple of the agencies that issue personnel iPhones for work. Read More »
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A Bit More About FrontlineCloud: Announcing A New Blog Post Series
FrontlineCloud has been out in beta for just over a month, and we’re proud to have over 450 users signed up already, sending and receiving thousands of messages. The newest addition to the Frontline product set has had an incredibly warm and supportive reception on social media and in the many lovely emails we’ve received from friends, users and donors. [...] Read More »
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A Definition of Cloud Computing (and How Healthcare Can Best Use It)
A few years ago NIST came up with the first drafts of the seminal definitions of Cloud Computing; they ended up setting the stage for communicating complex technical concepts and helping making ’Cloud’ a household name. After 15 drafts, the 16th and final definition was published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-145) in September. Read More »
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A Discussion of Medicaid’s $5 Billion/Year IT Infrastructure Transformation
CMS provides funding to the tune of 5 billion dollars per year to support the Medicaid information technology platforms run by the states. In December 2015, CMS issued a final rule, Mechanized Claims Processing and Information Retrieval Systems (90% Federal/10% State), to assist states to update Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) in over 20 states. These changes will allow states to improve customer service and support the dynamic nature of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and delivery systems. Also within this rule was language directing the Medicaid Enterprise towards an open, modular architecture.
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A Manifesto on Interoperability in Health Care IT
I’ve just completed a seven-week road show – my second cross-country trip in a year – visiting with health care professionals trying to make the world more healthful and connected through the use of technology. And after all those meetings I can tell you unequivocally that the vast majority of health care information technology challenges in the U.S. are the result of illogical or short-sighted business choices, not the technology challenges themselves...
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Access To Broadband Internet Is The New Access To Ports, Rail, And Electricity
In the 21st century, a small business in Kansas City, Missouri, has at least one very important thing in common with a small business in Seoul, Korea: Both have access to ultra high-speed internet—Kansas City via Google Fiber and Seoul on account of its government championing the rollout of fiber optic internet for over a decade. Read More »
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Acquia Launches Digital Alliance To Provide Technology Ecosystem For Creating Next-Generation, Integrated Digital Experiences
Acquia, where great digital experiences begin, today launched its Digital Alliance program, bringing together digital marketing and infrastructure technology companies that provide a full range of digital skills and applications that build upon and integrate with the Acquia open cloud platform... Read More »
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AEGIS Launches The OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group (IWG) And Contributes Developers Integration Lab (DIL) Source Code
AEGIS will chair the work group and submit their DIL source code to the OSEHRA open source repository. Read More »
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Agencies Will Shutter Nearly 400 Data Centers Before October
The government has shuttered 420 data centers since 2010, 38 of them in the past 10 weeks, according to updated figures the Office of Management and Budget released Friday. Read More »
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AIO Technology To Offer OpenEMRCloud
AIO Technology is now offering OpenEMR as a Cloud service out of its Minneapolis based data center. OpenEMR is an open-source system that is a medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing solution... Read More »
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An Open Source Private Cloud Solution for Rural Healthcare
One of the major challenges in developing countries like India is to make health care accessible in rural areas. Seventy percent of rural areas in India lack hospitals, physicians, and medical care. With the growth of the Internet, several healthcare portals are now available to provide appropriate solutions to common problems. Read More »
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