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Seattle system will pay $100K HIPAA fine after repeated breaches
A Seattle-based health system has agreed to pay a $100,000 HIPAA fine to HHS--as well as improve its medical data security--after failing to properly secure data backup tapes, disks and laptops. This Read more...
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> Health insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans is pushing the adoption of EMRs and other health IT as a means of cutting healthcare costs. Read more...
Health IT standards development likely to speed up
With some core data already defined, it's looking like the pace of health IT standards development is likely to pick up. According to John Halamka, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Read more...
HHS plans surprise HIPAA audits
According to survey data released at HIMSS last week, 25 percent of hospitals surveyed had seen a security breach within the past year. Even worse, research firm SecureWorks has seen an 85 percent Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: World Privacy Forum sounds alarm over PHR services
As we've discussed elsewhere, companies like Google and Microsoft (plus many smaller competitors) are determined to establish a beachhead in the personal health record space. That has some privacy Read more...
Group promotes using unique patient IDs for shared EMRs
An industry non-profit, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology, has begun promoting the idea that it's wise to create a system of unique patient identifier ID numbers for use in Read more...
Group to create health data security protection standard
A group of participants cutting across the employer, IT vendor and healthcare provider sectors announced last week that they'd come together to create a shared framework for health information Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Hospitals face ID security holes
Hospitals face ID security holesDoes this happen at your hospital? According to one vendor, it's not unusual for hospitals to leave a single user logged into terminals that access sensitive medical Read more...
Study: Market for healthcare virtual reality apps growing rapidly
Since the turn of the century, healthcare virtual reality (VR) applications have exploded, and the demand is only going to increase over the next several years, according to a new study by research Read more...
Microsoft kicks off PHR initiative
Microsoft launched a free PHR last week, working in cooperation with a wide variety of partners whose role it will be to help populate the record with useful medical data. The move puts Microsoft Read more...
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