February 1, 2012 | Diana Manos
Redspin's annual report cites unencrypted portable devices, lack of PHI oversight as main drivers of the nearly 100 percent spike in health data breaches in 2011.

January 6, 2012 |

Rick Kam

Christine Arevalo

With cloud computing on the rise and mobile devices proliferating, look for more data breaches, and with a bigger impact than year's past.

December 16, 2011 | Moti Rafalin
WatchDox CEO Moti Rafalin on the year's trickiest security trends, and some of the ways to safeguard against them.

December 1, 2011 | Chris Anderson
Ponemon's second annual security study found the number of breaches soaring on the back of sloppy mistakes, mobile devices, and shrinking hospital resources.

November 9, 2011 | Mary Mosquera
Federal agencies including FDA, AHRQ, NIST, will work with ONC on patient safety reporting, surveillance, and information sharing.

October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.

September 8, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.

August 23, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.

April 13, 2011 | White Papers
True reform of the healthcare system will depend on having clinical data points available upon which to make decisions. At this point, clinical data exchange remains mostly theoretical; even the exchange of administrative data is fraught with challenges. In order to get the right incentives in place through both meaningful use and payment reform, we need a very focused and deliberate plan moving forward. We are making progress -- but it must move faster. Gain insight into what levers are being considered and pulled in order to help realize the promise of health information exchange.

March 28, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Today's reality is that your security architecture must both satisfy auditors, stop attacks and meet essential security and privacy requirements. This is a must-attend webinar for those charged with safeguarding patient data, addressing regulatory compliance, or securing systems and networks. You'll learn about the pitfalls of putting in place point security solutions and how a comprehensive Security Gateway approach addresses all layers of security to more effectively manage your security environment. Attendees receive Security Buyers Guide.

January 12, 2012 | Carl Natale
I bet you thought HIPAA 5010 was so 2011. The deadline was Jan. 1 after all.

December 20, 2011 | Carl Natale
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) again says the healthcare industry still is not ready to comply with HIPAA 5010 and wants The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend the deadline six months.

November 10, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
OCR audits, PHI for HIEs, HIX IT, the value of electronic medical data in the theater of war, and more.

October 7, 2011 | Kelly Mehler
The 83rd Annual AHIMA Convention & Exhibit took place this week in Salt Lake City, Utah. The official AHIMA Resources twitter account promoted the hashtag #AHIMA11 in the weeks building up to the conference, in hopes that attendees would share personal experiences, tweet live events and enjoy the networking affairs. Here is a twitter recap of those who chose to do so.

August 15, 2011 | Jeff Rowe
How far should government go to make good things happen?