Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks. Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2024

Exec Summary: Digital health direct-to-consumer (DTC) refers to healthcare products and services delivered directly to consumers online, bypassing traditional intermediaries like doctors or hospitals. Wearable devices and health trackers: Devices that monitor health data like heart rate, sleep patterns, and activity levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation. This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the already overstretched world of hospitals, it is no wonder that cyber security is not top of mind for most workers. This is especially challenging given how rewarding healthcare breaches can be to hackers (personal health information is worth an average of 10 times more than financial information on the black market).

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

To accomplish this, it takes a complete team effort, from device manufacturers to software developers and hospital IT security teams. It is critical to understand the threats to the organization, the business functions, and the information systems that store, process, and transmit protected health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

eCareCompanion is a telehealth application that patients access on a secure tablet at home and use to share health information with their care team. With the tap of the screen, patients launch eCareCompanion, enter their password, and begin providing vital information to caregivers in a private and secure manner.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In some countries, there are specific regulations that must be followed when transmitting patient health information. Zinc: Zinc is a clinical messaging app that is specifically designed for use in hospitals. It is also important to consider the regulatory environment for clinical messaging apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

The mission of a SOC is to protect valuable customer/client data, protected health information, and intellectual property, achieved primarily through the prioritization, collection, and processing of security logs. What Should Be Included in a SOC?

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

THE LONG LEAD-UP Before we address the impact Haven will almost certainly have on the health sector at large, let’s examine how we got to this point. From there, you could potentially make a patient’s relevant personal health information available to that individual — “a portfolio of data,” Shehata calls it. “It

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

If you think about HIPAA Compliance or HITECH compliance, these are strict rules governing patient health information, PHI. How have you had to be thoughtful about making that part of your offering or partnering with others? It’s huge for us. We have PHI on our servers, so we have to be very mindful of that.

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