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IDC's 5 stages to ACO maturity

 Mike Miliard May 17, 2013
Accountable care is a long and arduous process. The analyst house released a framework to help healthcare organizations avoid floundering along the way.
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Will it cost more to close fed datacenters than agencies save?

 Tom Sullivan May 13, 2013
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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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan May 10, 2013
Super Docs, security challenges, EHRs under the gun, and the continuing upward trajectory of meaningful use payments.
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HIMSS network study shows IT challenges, priorities

 Erin McCann May 09, 2013
Among the top issues facing healthcare IT leaders are mobile devices, security, data storage, and information exchange.
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Perspective: HIE, 'omics' and personalized medicine

 Anthony Brino April 26, 2013
Associate Editor Anthony Brino on the intersection of genomics, health information exchange and more personalized medicine. Hint: A phone reading hearts rates and other vital signs.
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Alongside meaningful use progress, survey finds obstacles remain

 Erin McCann April 24, 2013
A Stoltenberg Consulting report outlines the top 3 challenges in achieving meaningful use and spotlights 3 other emerging health IT trends.
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How cloud computing enhances care in the 'golden hour'

 Lt. Col. Jose Albino (Ret.) April 05, 2013
With quick access to patient information, including medical, imaging and health informatics data, doctors can improve care in combat zones.
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5 reasons to consider clinical analytics

 Benjamin Harris April 03, 2013
The analysis of clinical data has great potential in the healthcare world, but the technology is still new to this realm.
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KLAS Top 5 cloud concerns of non-users

 Bernie Monegain March 13, 2013
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

 Rick Kam March 12, 2013
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

 Doug Pollack, CIPP March 12, 2013
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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HIE 2.0 closer than it might appear

 Tom Sullivan February 26, 2013
The health information exchange model is metamorphosing from its initial phase of Direct secure messaging and patient look-up toward a new age of value-added services that one HIE director believes "will have a profound effect on healthcare," quality across America.
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CIOs say lack of security pros leads to more breaches

 Mike Miliard February 25, 2013
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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This is your public health program on IT

 John Loonsk, MD FACMI February 11, 2013
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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This is your public health program on IT

 Cheryl Campbell February 11, 2013
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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CIOs confident and concerned about EHRs, meaningful use

 Diana Manos February 06, 2013
A study published Tuesday found "healthcare is at a crossroads," at which provider CIOs believe it's important to adopt EHRs but are uncertain about their ability to protect patient data.
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Are providers ripe for a massive medical records heist?

 Tom Sullivan January 14, 2013
Stolen health records are worth five orders of magnitude more than financial ones -- and as mobile devices, electronic information exchange, and healthcare cloud repositories proliferate across an industry lagging in encryption practices, those health records might become more alluring to organized criminals.
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NIH broadens its role in data science

 Anthony Brino January 11, 2013
With the creation of a new data scientist advisor, the National Institutes of Health is putting a new focus on IT amid the surging growth of EHR, genomic and molecular data.
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Cloud as a prescription for health data security

 Julie M. Anderson January 11, 2013
The very reasons that American doctors lag some other countries in EHR adoption also contribute to cloud computing EHRs allure.
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Q&A: Privacy activism in the age of Big Data

 Anthony Brino January 03, 2013
Google knows more about you than your mom, privacy needs to be redefined and HIPAA is a weak baseline, said Deborah Peel, MD, founder of the group Patient Privacy Rights, in an interview on all things privacy and Big Data.
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