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NewsHospitals more cautious about cloud adoption than physician practices
Hospitals and healthcare systems generally are taking a more cautious, staged approach to adopting cloud-based applications than are stand-alone providers--mainly physician practices--according to a Read more...
Healthcare industry poorly protecting patient privacy
Healthcare organizations and other industry players are falling short in protecting the privacy and security of patient information, according to a new report from consulting firm PwC. A survey of Read more...
ONC seeks vendor to develop, test electronic consent
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is seeking a vendor to develop and test methods of obtaining electronic patient consent for the use of personal data in health information Read more...
Health CIOs more likely to add to IT staff than other industries
CIOs in healthcare are more likely than their brethren in other industries to add IT staff during the first quarter of 2011, according to a quarterly survey of the IT field. The latest Robert Half Read more...
'Tiger team' calls for digital authentication in provider-to-provider HIE
The privacy and security "tiger team" set up to resolve pressing issues for the Health IT Policy Committee is calling for standard authentication policies for direct electronic exchange of EHRs and Read more...
One-third of medical practices haven't done security risk assessments
While 75 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed by HIMSS, the Medical Group Management Association and Intel have conducted security risk assessments as required by the federal EHR incentive Read more...
Easily preventable privacy breaches cost hospitals millions
Though there is the perception in many quarters that HIPAA privacy enforcement has been lax over the years, the HHS Office for Civil Rights investigated and resolved at least 11,421 cases of alleged Read more...
New HIPAA rules need more clarification
When it comes to the new HIPAA privacy and security standards, it seems like everybody has an opinion. Quite a few organizations are spreading the word about the comments they've filed in response to Read more...
Cigna CIO wary of security from social media but sees improved morale
Tech-savvy employees can be a great boon to an enterprise, but they can create some daunting challenges for the IT department when they use personal devices or social networking sites on the job. Read more...
Privacy, security 'tiger team' told granular consent technology is flawed
The "tiger team" formed to help HHS sort through some of the trickiest issues related to privacy and security of electronic health information is taking on perhaps its toughest task to date, namely Read more...
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