Cloud Computing

 
HIMSS names advisory panel for Government Health IT Conference
May 20, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Industry luminaries including Aneesh Chopra and Roger Baker to help shape the program's content and featured tracks.
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ONC launches cancer care app challenge
May 17, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
The ONC is looking for developers to create apps that help cancer survivors manage the complex transitions from speciality to primary care.
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FDCCI: A ship with potential but not empowered captains
May 15, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Has OMB lost its way toward the ambitious, if not sprawling, datacenter consolidation and Cloud-First initiatives?
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Will it cost more to close fed datacenters than agencies save?
May 13, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Federal government agencies are making progress with FDCCI, according to a report published Monday, and the benefits of shuttering datacenters are understood, but challenges and questions remain.
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Data prize series to solve 'most daunting' healthcare problems
April 16, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
A new prize series launched by a consortium of health and policy groups aims to bring the nation's most vexing healthcare problems to data scientists, with the solutions made broadly available.
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Kathleen Sebelius turns to Twitter
March 15, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is following some other federal officials in using Twitter for public engagement, as federal agencies like the CDC are looking to social media as a public health tool.
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KLAS Top 5 cloud concerns of non-users
March 13, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
While survey respondents that do in fact use cloud computing services or applications were very happy with them, among those still avoiding the cloud, security is the biggest concern.
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5 steps to managing data security risks in the cloud
March 12, 2013 |
Rick Kam
Doug Pollack, CIPP
Healthcare organizations must be deliberate when choosing what data to place in the cloud, understand the risks, and be ready to assume the associated liabilities.
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5 steps to managing data security risks in the cloud
March 12, 2013 |
Rick Kam
Doug Pollack, CIPP
Healthcare organizations must be deliberate when choosing what data to place in the cloud, understand the risks, and be ready to assume the associated liabilities.
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CIOs say lack of security pros leads to more breaches
February 25, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
Calling the shortage of information security professionals "dire," a new report says there is an "economic ripple effect across the globe," that includes healthcare organizations. And the finding that more than 66 percent of CIOs are short-staffed does not help.
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ONC, Arizona group probe docs' HIE practices, complaints
February 22, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Physicians interviewed in ONC-sponsored focus groups are either implementing or looking forward to seamless electronic health information exchange technology, while some are weary with parts of the journey.
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This is your public health program on IT
February 11, 2013 |
John Loonsk, MD FACMI
Cheryl Campbell
Many federal programs in some ways define the huge interoperability and health information exchange problem that is still ahead of us. John Loonsk and Cheryl Campbell explain why the government should look to information technologies, such as cloud computing, where it can while pushing the country to digitize the healthcare system.
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Enabling Data as a Service in Healthcare
April 24, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
Join this webinar to learn how Delphix can accelerate IT projects in healthcare while improving application quality and reducing infrastructure costs.
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The VNA Strategy: Balancing Workflow and Enterprise Imaging Management
April 16, 2013 | White Papers
As healthcare providers implement health IT to comply with federal mandates and participate in quality of care programs, VNA solutions can play a critical role in helping them meet their needs today and in their future IT initiatives. Forward-thinking healthcare providers around the world are already successfully meeting this challenge with VNA. Download this Healthcare IT News eBook to learn how VNA enables exchange, supports data consolidation and IT simplification.
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Are You Truly ACA Compliant? Incorporating the Correct Public Records Data Into Your Workflow
April 12, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
In this one hour webinar, Thomson Reuters and Verisys will outline several key areas of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and screening requirements. An overview of available public records data as well as strengths and weaknesses of various datasets will be discussed. We invite an open discussion to elaborate on the efficiencies that can be seen when the correct data is applied to the compliance workflow.
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Transforming Health Care Information Management with Data Capture Technologies
April 3, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
Designed for IT professionals, developers, and integrators creating and customizing healthcare systems and software, ABBYY experts will demonstrate how the newest data capture technologies can streamline information management in healthcare systems. We will demonstrate real world examples of how the latest technologies are used by current solution providers, and show how ABBYY technologies can be used to extract locked information from medical documentation. A pre-sales engineer will be available during this webinar to answer any questions regarding integrating these capabilities.
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Your Cloud in Healthcare - How to Use the Cloud to Achieve Greater Business Agility
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The healthcare sector is adopting enterprise hybrid cloud across the provider, payer, and life sciences segments with the goal of improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and increasing responsiveness to risk. This industry brief goes over some results of the CIO Global Cloud Computing Adoption Study, a recent survey by IDG Research, and outlines the common hybrid cloud use cases for healthcare organizations. It also details a real-world example of how cloud computing is being used to achieve greater business agility.
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The First Federal Private Cloud: Learn to Shape, Transform & Manage Applications
January 4, 2013 | White Papers
This video will outline the benefits of BizCloud for Government, the industry's first federal private cloud, which incorporates commercial best practices and is designed to meet federal security requirements. This video showcases a broad spectrum of cloud viewpoints from speakers including VCE's Michael Canellas and President of the North American Public Sector. Learn to deliver efficiencies to your agency, as well as shape, transform and manage applications to your cloud.
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Key Benefits to a Secure & Elastic Private Cloud
January 4, 2013 | White Papers
Facing pressure to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and achieve mission goals, government agencies and other organizations are moving forward with their cloud adoption strategies. Many organizations want the security and exclusivity of a private cloud with the pay-as-you-go economic model of a public cloud. Hear about how you can have all the commercial advantages of the public cloud while satisfying your need to mitigate risk and keep data secure.
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Shadow IT's Impact on the Federal Government
January 4, 2013 | White Papers
IT services are easier than ever to procure and provision – leading to the rise of so-called “shadow IT” groups, where executives are bypassing IT departments and using cloud computing and their own devices to bring capabilities online quickly. In this Town Hall featuring former CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and CSC experts, we take a close look at the business drivers behind shadow IT and how IT organizations can respond.
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Cloud Computing in the Healthcare Environment
January 4, 2013 | White Papers
With the current interest in electronic health records and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, healthcare organizations need to use new technologies to reduce costs, improve performance and accelerate efforts to achieve meaningful use. Hear how you can leverage the cloud, and what you should be doing now to understand your options and related risks.
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When Evolution Drives Revolution: The Cloud as a Business Model
January 4, 2013 | White Papers
Evolving information technology is driving a revolution in the business of government. The arrival of cloud computing was the first in many dominos that have fallen into patterns that now represent an entirely new way of conducting business. The federal government’s embrace of cloud computing, not just as a technology but as a business model, will make it very easy for the government to procure and consume IT services and lower its cost of operations in the near term. Download this white paper and hear how government is putting the cloud to work for them.
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New World Order: Effectively Securing Healthcare Data Through Secure Information Exchanges
December 12, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare is dominated by the need for the sharing of detailed patient information as a result of today's information age. But it's also the focal point of the debate of how information is shared versus protecting the need for privacy, security and confidentiality. Data protection is paramount in today’s virtual environment and implementing a Secure Information Exchange (SIE) now will help organizations save both themselves and their patients down the road.
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Advanced Text Mining Improves Medicare Advantage Coding
November 9, 2012 | White Papers
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are private health plans that have contracted with Medicare to receive a fixed monthly fee in exchange for providing comprehensive healthcare to plan members. In order to provide appropriate care to beneficiaries with varying medical conditions, plans are paid according to the Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score of each patient. Insufficient documentation of chronic conditions can be an obstacle to MA reimbursement. However, even when a condition has been properly documented by the provider, it is often not coded and submitted to Medicare. Read this white paper to learn how to take the complexity out of MA reimbursement.
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How cloud computing enhances care in the 'golden hour'
April 5, 2013 |
Lt. Col. Jose Albino (Ret.)

With quick access to patient information, including medical, imaging and health informatics data, doctors can improve care in combat zones.
Chicago grows HIT jobs; Ohio HIE adds clinic
February 14, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
An HR and benefits software company is adding 100 jobs in Chicago, a sign of the demand in health benefits technologies. In Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic is joining the statewide HIE.
New Mexico and Mississippi reach Medicaid HIPAA compliance
February 12, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The states' Medicaid Management Information Systems are the first to achieve HIPAA compliance, and are also reaching providers via the cloud.
Case studies in administrative simplifcation
February 8, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Healthcare is following financial services and telecom in public-private standardization of digital transactions, after big data prototypes and the ACA's HIPAA update.
Cloud as a prescription for health data security
January 11, 2013 |
Julie M. Anderson
The very reasons that American doctors lag some other countries in EHR adoption also contribute to cloud computing EHRs allure.
BYOD and finger smudges on the line between home and work
November 21, 2012 |
Adam Bazer
In addition to security concerns, employees that sync mobile devices to the corporate network are actively defining new values pertaining to professional and personal lives.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
October 18, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Is this the beginning of the end of health IT's coveted bipartisan support? That, and NYeC's Digital Health Conference 2012, CDC on the verge of opening its cloud to public health, the Government Health IT Virtual Briefing, a debate, and more.
Checklist for health orgs facing the cloud imperative
October 1, 2012 |
By Dennis Schmuland, MD

Microsoft's chief health strategy offices outlines the 5 things to look for in a cloud provider, and recommends questions to ask about each.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
August 24, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
MU Stage 2 final rule appears, but there's plenty of other EHR, HIE, and HIN news, too, with a sprinkling of advice about cloud computing.
Patient records in the cloud, part 3: Potential for end-to-end encryption
July 23, 2012 |
Craig Collins
For an industry that does too little encryption, the cloud computing model offers the opportunity to protect PHI in industry standard ways that comply with HIPAA regulations.
Patient records in the cloud, part 2: Glimpse inside a private datacenter
July 16, 2012 |
Craig Collins
The security surrounding some private datacenters resembles 'black ops guarding a national secret' - a stark contrast to traditional client-server networks living in a back office.
Money in a mattress: Why patient records should move to a private cloud
July 9, 2012 |
Craig Collins
Keeping health records in a client-server system is akin to thinking your money is safer under the bed than in a bank. Here's why.