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Leveling the Playing Field in Health Information Sharing: Complying with the 21st Century Cures Act

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Stephanie Jamison, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Greenway Health. Since its passage in late 2016, the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act has been setting the stage to reform the healthcare sector.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

In the pre-election ballots cast, the number of ballots cast has surpassed total 2016 voter turnout. states expanding access to these methods for the 2020 election, where these options have been made available due to the pandemic and electoral leadership throughout the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Critical Condition: The Increasing Frequency of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

In addition to the challenges that all organizations face like multiple devices, applications, and operating systems being used for day-to-day operations, they also store massive amounts of sensitive protected health information (PHI).

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Many Healthcare Organizations Aren’t Prepared for Interoperability Requirements

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healthcare system, healthcare organizations were struggling to prepare for the new set of rules that would codify demands that they make patient health information freely available. The rules, which were established by ONC based on the 2016 Cures Act, call for providers to make some big steps forward […].

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. He has his Masters in Information Security and holds CCISSP, CISA, CHC, CRISC, and ITIL-F certifications.