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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

Healthcare IT Today

The Cost of a Cybersecurity Breach Cybersecurity at its core is a way to protect valuable data and personal identifiable information (PII), such as credit card information, social security numbers, tax records, and more.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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Telehealth Law: Healthcare Translation Services for Limited English Proficient People (Case Study)

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In the 2001 repor t, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed a strategy to improve the US healthcare system. Identifying six aims, the report outlined the need for healthcare to be safe , effective , patient-centered , timely , efficient , and equitable.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. One 2013 emergency room incident turned violent when an inmate visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary fought with his security guards. He was shot in the chest and a deputy sheriff was shot in the leg.

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Exploring the Cosmos with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

Space has inspired some of our finest writers like Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin, as well as Hollywood odysseys like Star Trek and 2001: Space Odyssey. “In the next generation vehicle, when we go to Mars and the Moon, why wouldn’t we have telemedicine available?”. Beyond Our Cosmic Backyard.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. text/x-hl7-text+xml urn:hl7-org:sdwg:ccda-structuredBody:1.1 are laying around. Other document types are also possible.

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The rise of Counselling Apps - could they ever replace Face-to-Face therapy?

Lloyd Price

For years, people have looked online for mental health information and support, whether that was because of a fear of stigma or lack of local resources. In a study published in the Journal of Counselling Psychology in 2001, it was concluded that patients made most improvement around the seven-to-ten session mark.