Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act sails through Senate
The U.S. Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on Tuesday in a 74 to 21 vote. Offering companies legal immunity when sharing threat data with the federal government, the bill has big implications for healthcare data privacy and security.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Analytics Data Warehousing Network Infrastructure Policy and Legislation Privacy & Security Source Type: news
RWJF Report: Time to adjust expectations and settle in for the long term?
RWJF Report: Time to adjust expectations
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RWJF Report: Time to adjust expectations and settle in for the long term?
Context and perspective matter. And it's often both context and perspective that are lacking from the daily snapshots we get of health information technology, meaningful use, interoperability and the progress we are either making or not making, depending on your perspective.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Irv Lichtenwald Tags: Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
Interoperability still years away for VA and DoD
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs were both admonished on Tuesday for their inability to work together to create a fully interoperable electronic health record system.
[See also: Interoperability 'taking so darn long']
Interoperability
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis,Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Interoperability Network Infrastructure Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
Safety still shaky at most hospitals, says Leapfrog
The number is startling for how large it is. It pops off the page: 440,000 people die each year from preventable errors in hospitals.
As it does twice a year, hospital safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group shines its light on the good, the bad and the ugly with a letter grade – A through F.
What it shows with this fall ranking is sluggish improvement on the safety front, even as some hospitals continue to sustain A ratings year after year, others can't seem to make the grade.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Clinical Decision Support Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
3 tips to prep for large-scale cyberattack
However unlikely a large-scale cyber attack might seem to most CIOs and CISOs, hospitals should be preparing for one nonetheless.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Addressing APTs in healthcare: Taking a unified security approach
Addressing APTs in healthcare
Criminal attacks are now the number one cause of healthcare data breaches, rather than employee negligence or lost and stolen devices. In other words, for the first time, the majority of attacks on healthcare are intentional rather than accidental. Symantec's own Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) noted this trend in 2014 and predicted the arrival of this inflection point.
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Addressing APTs in healt...
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Finn Tags: Analytics Privacy & Security Source Type: news
The rise of ransomware, crafty hackers and health data destruction
It's no secret that many professionals tend to focus on what's right in front of them and healthcare as an industry is no exception. For hospital CIOs and CISOs that often means compliance, HIPAA regulations, security governance, safeguarding against accidental breaches and imminent threats – as opposed to the cybercriminals lurking in a shadowy and lucrative underworld.
But they're out there. And they're creeping into healthcare in sophisticated ways.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Richard Clarke's worst cybersecurity nightmare
There are security experts and then there's Richard Clarke. The cybersecurity guru, who served under three American Presidents, is now an internationally recognized speaker, consultant, and best-selling author.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Medicine through the looking glass
I still remember my first encounter with an EHR. I was visiting my primary care doctor, and the green glow from her computer screen reflected off her glasses like an extraterrestrial aura. Where there should have been eyes, I saw boxes and pop-ups, scroll-downs and charts.
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Medicine through the looking glass
EHRs are commonly understood as a barrier to meaningful connections with patients. But what if it were something that could...
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Teresa Knight, MD Tags: Electronic Health Records Source Type: news
Best practices for password security
Passwords have become one of modern life's more annoying routines. None of us is happy when our office email or bank asks us to take a comfortable password and turn it into something that resembles a missile launch code.
Clinicians who need to log in and out of systems throughout the day can be forgiven for uttering choice expletives when asked to re-set passwords while caring for patients.
Strong passwords are an essential front line defence in protecting data and systems. So what is the best way to create an effective password policy?
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Gus Venditto Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
AAFP launches platform for members to demand Stage 3 delay
The American Academy of Family Physicians launched an IT tool to make it easier for its doctor members to demand Congress 'hit pause' on Stage 3 meaningful use. The Speak Out platform, directly connects family physicians to their representatives.
Policy and Legislation
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Accountable Care Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use Patient Engagement Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
Cerner, TMC reveal big health IT plan
Truman Medical Centers and Cerner, both Kansas City-based healthcare giants, have launched a strategic partnership with the goal of transforming healthcare – not only in Kansas City but around the world.
Together TMC, an academic medical center affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, and Cerner will pilot innovations using health information technology.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Network Infrastructure Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
AHRQ gets big show of support on Capitol Hill
Nearly 200 medical associations, providers and other healthcare groups have implored the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to preserve support for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which has been threatened with defunding.
[See also: House draft budget would eliminate AHRQ]
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Clinical Policy and Legislation Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Should VA opt for a commercial EHR?
While the Veteran Affairs Departments homegrown electronic health record system is entrenched at VA outlets around the country, the once cutting-edge EHR appears to be under fire this week.
MITRE Corp. said that the EHR, called the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), is "in danger of becoming obsolete," within a 4,000-page report it issued late last month.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jack McCarthy Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
10 CISOs, 10 bits of data security advice
10 CISOs,10 bits of data security advice
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Connie Barrera, director information assurance and CISO, Jackson Health System, Miami.Barrera spends a lot of time walking the hospital floors and asking clinical users how the technology is working or not working for them."If it’s not working, they are going to do something else," she warned. "And usually what they’re doing is probably much less secure."Full story.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Network Infrastructure Policy and Legislation Privacy & Security Source Type: news
