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• 3 tasks healthcare CIOs should pursue during pandemic

  During the COVID-19 crisis, healthcare CIOs are enabling a remote workforce and scaling out telehealth options. But they can also streamline a few processes that will help patients and providers. Continue Reading

• 5 ways to properly secure medical devices

  Medical device security is paramount, so IT professionals should make sure they follow best practices. Here are five ways to secure medical devices to mitigate cyberthreats. Continue Reading

• Telehealth technology improves healthcare access for rural areas

  Rural communities often suffer from a lack of healthcare access, and nursing homes in these areas are doubly at risk. Telehealth brings needed services to these vulnerable populations. Continue Reading

• Healthcare data breaches persist as security investments flounder

  Healthcare is still catching up to other industries in terms of investments in security and IT. This is complicated by the number of different systems that must be protected. Continue Reading

• Health insurance mergers aim to reduce costs, improve outcomes

  Insurance payers are merging with healthcare organizations to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. Access to patient data for analytics can help them achieve those goals. Continue Reading

• 6 steps to better third-party risk management

  The American Medical Collection Agency data breach exposed the hazard of dealing with service providers. Here are six steps on how to better manage third-party vendors.Continue Reading

• How CIOs can help alleviate EHR issues

  EHRs can be more problem than solution for healthcare organizations, but CIOs can help by talking to practitioners and holding vendors accountable.Continue Reading

• Remote patient monitoring requires medical device management

  While remote patient monitoring devices can be beneficial to hospitals as a way to improve patient engagement, they aren't without their security challenges.Continue Reading

• 6 steps for mitigating healthcare cybersecurity threats

  Healthcare organizations remain a target for cyberthreats like ransomware and data breaches. These six steps will help health IT departments respond to or prevent cyberattacks.Continue Reading

• How to make protecting electronic health records simpler, safer

  Want a safer EHR system? Assess the risks, log every single error and then assemble a cross-functional team to investigate. It's a painstaking -- but necessary -- process.Continue Reading

• Social engineering scams must be on hospitals' radars

  Social engineering continues to be a threat to healthcare organizations. Hospital IT departments must be aware of the common techniques use to deceive unsuspecting users.Continue Reading

• Mobile device security in healthcare must become a priority

  As mobile devices become more common in healthcare, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the increased attack surface. Health IT must be diligent in protecting these endpoints.Continue Reading

• Hospitals battle duplicate medical records with technology

  See how IT executives at two healthcare organizations weed out patient identification errors related to duplicate medical records -- a significant problem, according to research.Continue Reading

• Patient vs. healthcare consumer? Musings on the CVS/Aetna merger

  During an interview on the PBS News Hour, CVS CEO Larry Merlo drew an interesting distinction when speaking about the future of healthcare. Fresh from the merger with Aetna, Merlo said people ...Continue Reading

• Ask the right questions before diving in to healthcare CRM

  The healthcare CRM market is crowded and it can be difficult to know how to choose the right solution. Our experts outline the right questions to ask before you begin your journey.Continue Reading

• CoxHealth gains from outsourcing to Cerner ITWorks

  Cerner partners with more than 30 organizations to deliver outsourced IT operation management. One of those systems, CoxHealth, got faster, more stable IT management model.Continue Reading

• CRM in healthcare: A look inside its muddled world

  By some estimates it could be nearly 20 years before healthcare manages true patient engagement. Here's why healthcare CRM is such a challenge for providers today.Continue Reading

• A first person view of today's medical records system. It's not pretty

  The cardiologist walked in to the hospital room and handed me an envelope. “My notes and his test results are in there,” he said. “Don’t lose that – it’s gold.” Gold? Sure. But that envelope was ...Continue Reading

• Why the healthcare BAA makes the cloud journey much tougher

  Applying public cloud to healthcare can create a brave new world for hospitals. The CTO of Providence Health & Services strongly advises reading the healthcare BAA very carefully.Continue Reading

• Use a patient approach with healthcare APIs

  With this week’s news that healthcare interoperability is getting a boost from the support of six major tech companies, it’s tempting to think that is where the breakthroughs are going to happen. ...Continue Reading

• FDA challenge encourages development of pain management devices

  An FDA innovation challenge pushes developers to create pain management devices as a way to address the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States.Continue Reading

• Restrain employee error to fight healthcare cybersecurity threats

  According to separate studies, healthcare employees are the biggest security threat to an organization. A security expert suggests three ways to bolster internal security.Continue Reading

• 3D printed organs help improve pre-surgical preparation

  Imagine that a surgeon is holding a duplicated organ in hand when illustrating specific pathologies to the patient before a scheduled operation. Thanks to the 3D printing technology, a true-to-life ...Continue Reading

• EHR-agnostic dashboard technology benefits Texas hospitals

  An EHR-agnostic dashboard technology called Smart Ribbon has helped Texas hospitals lower patient discharge costs by displaying critical clinical information.Continue Reading

• Florida community hospital uses AI tools to generate care paths

  Flagler Hospital, a community healthcare organization in Florida, uses an AI platform to generate care paths for high-cost, high-mortality conditions such as pneumonia and sepsis.Continue Reading

• Cryptojacking emerging as a new threat to healthcare

  Although cryptojacking attacks may appear relatively harmless compared to other cyberthreats, healthcare organizations should remain on alert for this new type of attack.Continue Reading

• Health information management professionals aid cybersecurity

  Cybersecurity is an ongoing priority -- and challenge -- for healthcare organizations. A health information management team can help keep data secure and protected.Continue Reading

• Pharmacy benefit manager turns to analytics to fight healthcare fraud

  To be able to detect fraud in healthcare more quickly and accurately, a pharmacy benefit manager is turning to advanced data analytics, allowing it to integrate pharmacy and medical claims.Continue Reading

• To prevent medical records breach, assess system risk factors

  Healthcare organizations could face a breach of medical records at any time, yet they may not be prepared when it happens, according to the founder of a data protection research firm.Continue Reading

• Improving population health goal of data analytics research

  Data analytics may be just what the doctor ordered for a Nevada hospital. Findings from a study of genetic, medical, environmental and demographic data could improve population health.Continue Reading

• Physician burnout targeted by health IT, wellness vendors

  Industry consolidation, tech reporting mandates, heavy workloads and 'EHR fatigue' are causing high levels of stress and work dissatisfaction among healthcare professionals, experts say.Continue Reading

• Blockchain can help improve the quality of patient care

  Improving patient care quality is an ongoing conversation among healthcare professionals. Learn how the implementation of blockchain can make a difference.Continue Reading

• 5 healthcare cybersecurity best practices for care organizations

  Hospital CIOs who want to ensure that their environments are protected should be sure to implement multifactor authentication and AI-based monitoring to prevent data breaches.Continue Reading

• Connected medical device security, AI battle health hackers

  More hacker threats, including via connected medical devices, are coming to healthcare organizations, but health IT professionals can look to AI and blockchain for possible help.Continue Reading

• Considerations for transgender patient documentation in EHRs

  Most modern EHRs document sexual identity as a fixed, binary value, but classic designations such as male and female fail to include documentation for transgender patients.Continue Reading

• Michigan uses prescription monitoring to fight opioid crisis

  Michigan public health officials use e-prescribing and monitoring and analytics software from Appriss Health to fight opioid addiction by tracking overprescribing and abuse.Continue Reading

• Medical imaging data enables modern healthcare strategies

  Medical images make up a large percentage of healthcare data. Providers can draw insights from that data to make better decisions about patient care.Continue Reading

• Interoperability may be in sight as Epic and Cerner work together

  As two of the largest EHRs in the healthcare space, Epic and Cerner have often appeared to be at odds with each other. But that seems to be changing via an ONC initiative.Continue Reading

• Patient matching technology helps HIE reduce duplicate records

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT looks at how an HIE reduced duplicate patient records by using NextGate's patient matching technology.Continue Reading

• Benefits of single sign-on in healthcare

  Does your healthcare organization understand the benefits of single sign-on products? Learn how healthcare professionals quickly log on to multiple applications without much hassle.Continue Reading

• Predictive analytics in healthcare helps improve OR utilization

  It is expensive for a hospital to run multiple ORs, therefore it's important that the space is used efficiently. One hospital uses predictive analytics to improve OR utilization.Continue Reading

• Security gets interactive with HIPAA compliance assessment app

  The release of a security risk assessment tool to assist providers with HIPAA compliance was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services.Continue Reading

• Five areas of focus for a healthcare business intelligence program

  Defining healthcare business intelligence is the first step towards its use. A book on the subject has all of its definitions covered.Continue Reading

• Checklist: Can your IT infrastructure support an EHR solution?

  Some facilities are just now doing an EHR implementation; others are ripping and replacing existing EHRs. Make sure your IT infrastructure is ready.Continue Reading

• The five crucial steps to achieving PACS integration

  Organizations exploring their PACS options must first determine how their system will be used and where it will be hosted, among other concerns.Continue Reading

• Strategies for a smooth telemedicine project implementation

  Planning and implementing a telemedicine project involves the right people, the right technology, and workflow analysis. Here's where to start.Continue Reading

• How to meet hardware requirements for virtualization of applications

  Choosing the right hardware for virtual applications means considering what the app itself and the OS need, plus whether it makes sense to run the app on its own virtual server.Continue Reading

• Five ways to improve virtual machine performance

  As health care organizations increasingly rely on virtual servers, IT departments must work hard to maintain high performance. These tips will work on any virtualization platform.Continue Reading

• Developing a virtualized environment no easy task in health care

  Providers considering a virtualized environment must know which platforms their EHR vendors support. They likely will need the expertise and resources to manage multiple systems.Continue Reading

• Using LDAP authentication to limit EHR data access

  With role-based LDAP authentication, "naming models" define the types of patient information an end user can and can't access. This technology improves information security and reduces errors.Continue Reading

• CCHIT-certified EHR systems for meaningful use

  This tip lists CCHIT-certified electronic health record systems. CCHIT is one of several groups that have received ONC approval to test and certify EHR software for meaningful use.Continue Reading

• How EHR standards align with meaningful use

  Federal EHR standards outline the things a system must do to be certified for meaningful use. This chart lists each standard and its corresponding meaningful use requirement.Continue Reading

• How the HITECH Act changes HIPAA compliance

  Thanks to the HITECH Act, HIPAA compliance has become stricter, with bigger fines for data breaches and restrictions on the use of personal data. This tip outlines the major changes to HIPAA compliance.Continue Reading

• State HIE list from the HITECH Act

  The HITECH Act allocated nearly $550 million to develop a health information exchange in each U.S. state and territory. This tip lists each state's HIE and who's in charge.Continue Reading

• Products meeting CCHIT ARRA certification standards

  Using products that meet the preliminary certification standards of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is required for reimbursement under the ARRA legislation.Continue Reading

• Choosing the right health care servers is no easy task

  How can CIOs choose the right health care servers for their application environments? Learn more about the types of servers needed and how to rate the requirements for each.Continue Reading

• Clinical data warehouse boosts research, patient care quality

  At least for larger facilities, the answer to the problem of hospital patient data in discrete silos could be a clinical data warehouse, as the UNC Healthcare System discovered.Continue Reading

• Keeping up with EHR certification, CCHIT certification and funding OR Developments in EHR certificat

  Government and certification bodies are moving at 'supersonic speed' to establish EHR certifications and funding criteria: What you need to know to keep up.Continue Reading

• Tiered storage, SANs essential for electronic health records, images

  Image and electronic health record data storage are a long-term problem for health care IT administrators. Tiered storage and SANs can help prioritize management.Continue Reading