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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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AHIMA offers mHealth app best practices

 Mike Miliard May 08, 2013
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

 Anthony Brino May 07, 2013
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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Boston Marathon bombing spotlights good and potential bad of social media, mHealth in disasters

 Tom Sullivan April 17, 2013
Social media and mobile health technologies facilitate communication more effectively than even before, but all the information and all the images, as useful as they are, might provoke mental health issues down the road.
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3 ways to make data protection more patient-centric

 Rick Kam April 09, 2013
The missing ingredient in many PHI privacy and security efforts? The patient. Rick Kam offers suggestions on how to change that.
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States focus on consumer experience in Medicaid modernization

 Anthony Brino April 08, 2013
Nearly 50 years after the creation of Medicaid, the program faces steep financial challenges. Modernizing the IT systems underpinning Medicaid promises to usher in a more consumer-friendly era.
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mHealth tools need to be financially self-sustainable, report finds

 Paul Cerrato April 08, 2013
No longer a supplemental way to access information, mobile devices are a central part of life. Now comes the transition from mHealth initiatives funded by grants to lasting financial models.
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Commentary: Between partisan bickering lies the mHealth 'sweet spot'

 Diana Manos March 22, 2013
Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Diana Manos on three days of Capitol Hill hearings to explore the balance between innovation and regulation of mobile health apps, devices, and issues.
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Kathleen Sebelius turns to Twitter

 Anthony Brino March 15, 2013
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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ACO participants investing in analytics, survey finds

 Anthony Brino March 15, 2013
On the road to accountable care and population health management, health organizations participating in ACOs are turning to data analysis tools with several key goals in mind.
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Pros and cons of the app economy

 Tom Sullivan March 03, 2013
The economy around mobile health applications is on fire. And that brings a whole slew of policy, privacy and security challenges.
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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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Q&A: iBlueButton empowers patients to be the HIE

 Mary Mosquera February 25, 2013
Humetrix expands its mobile health information hub to arm Apple and Android devices with access to various Blue Button accounts and, in so doing, moves patients closer to the center of their own health records.
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What is your PHI worth?

 Rick Kam February 21, 2013
Making a business case for patient data security by educating board-level executives about the financial value of information and why it needs to be accounted like other modern assets.
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VA CTO, CIO departing

Anthony Brino February 19, 2013
VA CTO Paul Levin and CIO Roger Baker are both resigning after three years, leaving the agency as it serves a new generation of veterans with more modern IT systems and patient-centered technologies.
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Black Book says MU 'created artificial market' for immature EHRs

 Erin McCann February 19, 2013
A surprising number of healthcare organizations are dissatisfied enough with their EHR to consider switching vendors, according to a new report. Stage 2 of meaningful use is not likely to change that either.
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Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success

 Lucy Streett February 13, 2013
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
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Lawmaker drafts mHealth security bill

 Eric Wicklund January 24, 2013
Georgia congressman releases draft proposed legislation that guides how mobile applications, including mHealth apps, collect personal data.
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