Scientists call to suspend inherited human genome editing
An international group of scientists is calling for a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome, specifically the use of the Crisper-Cas9 technique on DNA.
The group met in Washington Thursday.
It would be "irresponsible to proceed," the group said; stating the need for a better risk assessment and a "broad societal consensus about the appropriateness" of these changes, The New York Times reported today.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Clinical Data Warehousing Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Top takeaways from the Privacy & Security Forum
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Top security takeaways from the P&S ForumFrom cybersecurity to HIPAA compliance, medical devices to BYOD, there was lots to learn this week as more than 300 healthcare professionals gathered in Boston to tackle the technology and workforce challenges to protecting patient data.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard,Jessica Sabbah Tags: Online Only Compliance & Legal Industry News Medical Devices Network Infrastructure Policy and Legislation Privacy Security Hospitals IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Vendors Source Type: news
Who earns biggest bucks in health IT?
A new survey from online jobs search site HealthITJobs.com shows that health IT workers are in high demand, and many – especially those with "executive" in their title – command top dollar.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Career Planning Network Infrastructure Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
Insurance company pays $3.5M HIPAA settlement for poor PHI protections
Triple-S Management Corporation has agreed to settle potential HIPAA violations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights to the tune of $3.5 million, after repeatedly failing to put safeguards in place for its beneficiaries' PHI.
In addition, the San Juan, P.R.-based insurance holding company will implement a robust corrective action plan to correct its HIPAA compliance deficiencies, an effort that's already been initiated.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Claims Processing Compliance & Legal Data Warehousing Policy and Legislation Privacy Security Source Type: news
HIMSS Value Score to measure financial side of health IT
HIMSS on Thursday launched its Value Score program, the first international IT quality measurement for healthcare providers that factors in technological, clinical and financial outcomes.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Electronic Health Records Population Health Source Type: news
Top rural, urban, children's hospitals named by Leapfrog
The Leapfrog Group this week named its top hospitals, touting 98 facilities for quality of care and patient safety.
The results are gleaned by the the consultant's annual survey, which asks hospitals to share metrics tied to safety and quality benchmarks.
Out of the 98 facilities honored, 12 were children's hospitals, 24 were rural hospitals and 63 were urban hospitals, Leapfrog said.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Henry Powderly Tags: Online Only Clinical Electronic Health Records Population Health Quality and Safety Workforce Source Type: news
Two-factor authentication on the rise, small hospitals fall short, ONC says
Fewer than half of U.S. hospitals support an infrastructure capable of two-factor authentication, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT reported in November, while 35 percent of critical access hospitals and 40 percent of small rural hospitals report the lowest levels of capability.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
Medical device security? Forget hackers, think 'hand-washing'
Simply put, security control considerations were "not really part of some of these early medical devices," said Kevin Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan.
But many of those very medical devices are still in wide use at hospitals across the U.S.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Medical Devices Mobile Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Time to embrace decision support (not decision replacement) is now
Time to embrace decision support is now
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Time to embrace decision support (not decision replacement) is now
There is mounting evidence that clinical decision support tools can significantly improve patient outcomes. Not only is this good news for the patient, it is also good news for our entire healthcare delivery system.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Lareau Tags: Decision Support Workflow Source Type: news
New medical billing app from drchrono
On Wednesday, drchrono launched what it touts as the first medical billing and business intelligence app designed specifically for the iPad. The tool allows medical practices to view claims and billing statuses from mobile devices.
Daniel Kivatinos, drchrono's co-founder, made the announcement exclusively to Healthcare IT News.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use Mobile Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
Held by ransomware: Should you really pay criminals to get your data back?
Ransomware attacks and tools are on the rise and perhaps more so than has been widely understood thus far.
The gist: Hackers crack into a network via malicious URLs or malware, find data they can encrypt with relatively low-cost tools, and then demand either money or Bitcoins to return it.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Source Type: news
2015 in review: John Halamka's take
2015 in review
It's now December and as each year ends, I always look back on the challenges and achievements of the past 12 months. Here's my sense of 2015.
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2015 in review
As each year comes to a close, John Halamka, MD, looks back on the challenges and achievements of the past 12 months.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Halamka Tags: Cloud Computing ICD-10 & Coding Meaningful Use Source Type: news
Healthcare breaches by the numbers
Stephen Nardone had just 15 minutes to deliver an impactful presentation Tuesday at the Privacy and Security Forum in Boston.
Nardone, director, security and mobility solutions at PC Connection, a business IT company besed in Merrimack, N.H., is steeped in the ins and outs of health system vulnerabilities, and he used numbers to drive the risk factors home:
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Cyber security market to grow big time
The global healthcare cybersecurity market is expected to exceed $10 million by 2022. To be exact, a new report pegs the market at $10,848.87 million in U.S. dollars.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Big Data Byte: The Future of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
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The Future of Predictive Analytics
Thomas Hill Ph.D, Executive Director for Analytics for Dell Statistica Software, explains how historical data can be used to predict risk and how it applies to clinical settings.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 1, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Bailey Tags: Analytics Clinical Source Type: news
