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Medicare Strike Force nails 89 fraudsters
May 16, 2013 |
Anthony Brino

Suspected scheme leader already bought Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Bentley before the the DOJ and HHS cracked down on him and 88 other alleged criminals.
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Florida boosts fraud prevention in public assistance programs
May 15, 2013 |
Anthony Brino

Florida has some of the highest public program fraud rates in the nation, and it's also the first state to adopt a front-end fraud prevention technology for social and health programs, with a pilot in greater Orlando.
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Unsecured emails trigger breach at Memphis medical center
May 13, 2013 |
Erin McCann

An official from the Regional Medical Center in Memphis called the gaffe "an innocent employee mistake" and said there is no evidence that the data was used inappropriately.
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3 lessons on risk: What higher ed can teach health IT
May 13, 2013 |
Rick Kam

Data breaches are a fact of life. That's exactly why managing risk is so critical to healthcare organizations' ongoing privacy and security efforts.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings

When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings

When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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Health plans prepare edge servers for HIXs
May 10, 2013 |
Anthony Brino

Along with several consumer-facing IT tasks, insurers selling in exchanges have to provide fairly granular data to CMS using edge servers for the risk adjustment and reinsurance programs.
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5 tenets of OMB's 'open and machine readable' data policy
May 9, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan

Via the Office of Management and Budget, the White House is ratcheting up its open data projects with new policies and action items to which federal agencies must adhere.
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HIMSS network study shows IT challenges, priorities
May 9, 2013 |
Erin McCann

Among the top issues facing healthcare IT leaders are mobile devices, security, data storage, and information exchange.
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AHIMA offers mHealth app best practices
May 8, 2013 |
Mike Miliard

The association's guide offers several recommendations for maximizing mobile health applications, privacy and security tips among them.
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Q&A: Why IT security grows more complex
May 7, 2013 |
Anthony Brino

With digitization and interconnected devices come HIPAA compliance costs and a web of security issues. Organizations should thus be devoting extra scrutiny to vendors and designing security architectures from the get-go, one cyber-security analyst suggests.
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Vets file class action over VA breach
May 3, 2013 |
Anthony Brino

Two veterans in South Carolina have filed a class action lawsuit against the VA stemming from a February breach, arguing that it would have been preventable with encryption.
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Top Ten Government Healthcare IT Security Commandments
May 16, 2013 | White Papers
Do you want to be the one to tell your patient their records have been breached? This quick easy read will alert you to the lurking Cyber security pitfalls. Download today for a safer tomorrow.
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May 10th @ 2PM ET -- Enabling Data as a Service in Healthcare
April 24, 2013 | Upcoming 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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Accelerate Healthcare Reform with Information Technology
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The current agenda is clear: wherever possible, reduce costs and improve quality-of-care services. These directives are in perfect alignment with the role of virtual and cloud computing infrastructure technologies, which help to lower costs and increase clinician productivity while future-proofing IT investments. As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. It will determine the ease or di!culty of updating existing applications and managing new ones. It will also serve as a foundation to help ensure that all healthcare services are secure, accessible and easy enough for citizens to access and use.
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Palomar Health Choses EXTENSION's Alert Management Software Solution
January 2, 2013 | White Papers
Watch this informative video to learn why Palomar Health - the largest health district in the state of California - chose EXTENSION's healthcare alert management software to connect its nurse call system with the existing EHR and Cisco phones and the impact it has made on care team communication and patient experiences.
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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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Sizing Up Your Cloud Options - Is Now the Time?
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare Cloud Computing and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.
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QualSight LASIK Achieves HIPAA Compliance After Attempted Hack
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
In January 2010, QualSight - the nation’s largest LASIK manager serving over 75 million health plan members - was informed that a hack attempt had been made against their infrastructure. They were concerned that a repeat occurrence could take place and wanted to take a pro-active role in eliminating any future occurrence. QualSight began searching for a better solution for its secure Web hosting and online data storage. The company had stringent requirements for both HIPAA and PCI compliance, and could not find a hosting provider with a fully managed solution that took into account both of those high industry standards, while also providing top performance. Download this case study to find out how QualSight finally found a solution that offered complete HIPAA compliancy.
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Store and Organize All Types of Healthcare Data on a Single Information Infrastructure
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
Information Transforms Healthcare. As a Provider, you collect more data than ever before, from EMRs, patient surveys, home monitoring, to imaging. Collaborating on patient care is difficult at best—there’s so much data, it can’t easily be shared and it’s often incomplete. And new insights can only be derived from relevant information. IT executives can close the gap between maintenance and innovation budgets and deliver clinically relevant, operationally efficient, and fiscally sound solutions for the business. How? With a proven IT infrastructure that allows you to securely take advantage of newly digitized data.
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Medical Imaging in the Cloud
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
The wealth of electronic data generated by the U.S. healthcare system presents a paradox for healthcare providers. Cloud services offers healthcare an attractive solution, helping hospitals scale with ease, better manage resources, and provide fluid access and sharing of medical images across organizations, departments and providers – achieving a connectedness that supports healthcare organizations’ patient care goals. Learn why cloud services may be the solution to your healthcare organization’s medical imaging challenges.
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The Need for Data Loss Prevention Now
September 25, 2012 | White Papers
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is powerful technology that can be use to plug the wholes in the data leakage dam affecting organizations worldwide. In the healthcare industry the consequences of leakage are particularly dire. This white paper offers an indtroduction to the topic of DLP, which is one of the most important and powerful tools in the information security industry.
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Case Study: Blood Systems Expands Remote Access Connectivity to Prepare for Disaster
September 9, 2012 | White Papers
For more than 60 years, Blood Systems has been offering its life-giving services throughout the Western U.S. Blood Systems wanted to optimize its network for business value, migrating to the latest WAN services. Read this white paper to learn how Blood Systems increased flexibility and now support business continuity requirements so the nation’s blood supply wouldn’t be interrupted in the face of a natural disaster or pandemic.
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Celebrating informatics in the wake of Boston Marathon bombing
May 16, 2013 |
Lorren Pettit

While a “cancer” in society was expectantly expressed, multiple technologies were employed to collect data and synthesize into a format that provided law enforcement with the informatics needed to isolate and ultimately expunge the offending sources.
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On EHR data integrity: A patient's perspective
May 14, 2013 |
Deborah Kohn

The time has come to tackle integrity of health information, not just the technical and operational mechanisms for the sending and receiving it, particularly as EHR kinks get ironed out both among internal users and the patients they serve.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 10, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan

Super Docs, security challenges, EHRs under the gun, and the continuing upward trajectory of meaningful use payments.
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An informatics nurse's recommitment to deliver quality and innovation in patient care
May 8, 2013 |
Maria Arellano MS, RN

For National Nurses Week, Mario Arellano shares three of the critical aspects of her real world knowledge of what it means to work as a nurse.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 2, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan

This week in Government Health IT: Reports expose state and local governments as ill-prepared, whether that be for Big Data or cyber-attacks. Also, think tanks talk patient-centered care for cost-savings.
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Protecting health data may be harder than you think
April 9, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe

Even though the omnibus HIPAA rules on privacy and security are taking hold, the reality is that shielding PHI from may be easier legally than technologically.
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Privacy violations demonstrate vulnerability of PHI
March 19, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe

Beware, Big Brothers are watching!
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Influx of mHealth apps triggering legal questions
February 27, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe

New apps, devices or gadgets are bound to bring along legal questions, and not just concerning HIPAA compliance, which likely will make doctors hesitant to prescribe these types of solutions to patients.
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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.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 8, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan

The leaning of CMS and ONC, EHR confidence men, and did anyone really think that the DoD and VA would get to iEHR, on budget and time?
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Why HIE hinges on terminology standards
February 4, 2013 |
Viet Nguyen, MD

That the industry needs standards to facilitate the flow of data is widely understood. It's figuring out what those should be that's proving to be difficult.
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Beware the chart eating virus
January 28, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe

IT is great, except when it isn't.
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