By Matt Fisher – It often seems as though a day does not go by without the report of a new breach of healthcare data. Examples of breaches include loss of unencrypted devices (whether laptops, flash drives or other devices), usage of non-secure services, inattention to paper records, employee snooping, and more.
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By John Halamka MD – Thinking about a recent New York Times article, I’ve put together a top 10 guide for IT leaders to avoid the decline into misery at work while keeping their livers intact.
By Patty O’Toole – Black Book Rankings, a healthcare-centric market and public opinion research company, conducted an annual ambulatory user poll to determine the highest-ranked Electronic Health and Medical Record organizations for 2015.
By Bennett Lauber. Having these two events at the same time is rather inconvenient because we’d really like to be in full attendance for both of these. However, seeing both of these show up on my Outlook calendar on the same week got me thinking about usability and accessibility in telehealth.
By John Halamka MD – In many previous posts, I’ve written about the importance of enabling infrastructure to accelerate interoperability. The standards are not the rate limiting step, but the lack of a provider directory, patient identifier, and consent registry are.
By Steve Spearman – In this week’s Q&A, HIPAA Chat host Steve Spearman spoke with Mike Pearson, information security expert, about the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability scanning and how these techniques can facilitate HIPAA compliance.
By Joshua Bennett MD, MBA – With healthcare facing pressures to transform the way care is organized and delivered, providers must find new ways to deliver high-quality, accessible, efficient patient care. One model that is growing in popularity since its inception in the late 1960’s, and promises a way for better healthcare, is the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
The Innovation Institute has announced that Dell Services, a division of Dell Inc., has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of the Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, California.
By William Hersh – Even though many medical students and physicians do not acknowledge it, information has always been a major focus of clinical practice. Physicians have always spent a great deal of time with information, as evidenced by studies that describe time use of physicians.