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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.
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Hospital opts to modernize its fax machine
New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.
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How to reduce medical device security risk
Mayo Clinic cybersecurity expert Kevin McDonald has some advice on how health IT pros can reduce the security risks posed by connected medical devices.
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Facial recognition technology enables emotion analysis
Healthcare organizations can use facial recognition to analyze patients' emotions and track them within a facility. The technology can also identify suspicious individuals.
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AMA playbook guides health IT implementation
The American Medical Association created the Digital Health Implementation Playbook, which provides a step-by-step guide to technology implementation, with a focus on remote patient monitoring.
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CMS replaces meaningful use with new program
CMS is replacing meaningful use with 'Promoting Interoperability' and proposing new Medicare payment programs with looser physician reporting rules and more price transparency.
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Facial recognition technology enables emotion analysis
Healthcare organizations can use facial recognition to analyze patients' emotions and track them within a facility. The technology can also identify suspicious individuals.
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Easy to use EHRs? Here's what the ONC suggests
A new draft report from the ONC acknowledges the challenges with EHRs and provides suggested solutions, including decreased regulation and more stakeholder cooperation.
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Population health, payer-providers look to streamline care
Clinicians, health IT professionals, insurance carriers and others have started a slow roll toward improved patient outcomes using methods based on healthcare reform.
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Where blockchain in healthcare might actually make a difference
It’s almost too easy to dismiss the idea of blockchain in healthcare. The first major application of blockchain -- Bitcoin – does feel kind of sketchy (all the currency that went “missing”) and the ...
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Hospital opts to modernize its fax machine
New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.
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Facial recognition technology enables emotion analysis
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How to build a hospital cybersecurity response plan
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.
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Take these steps to make EHR systems safer
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How can hospitals combat social engineering attacks?
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How to reduce medical device security risk
Mayo Clinic cybersecurity expert Kevin McDonald has some advice on how health IT pros can reduce the security risks posed by connected medical devices.
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Expert says Anthem data breach shows need to control data access
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Greater interoperability needs government intervention
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Health IT can contribute to the battle against opioids
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Value-based care induces payer-provider convergence
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The evolution of VNA systems and medical imaging modalities
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Cloud in healthcare rises above privacy, compliance pressures
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E-Handbook | August 2018
Speed off with flash storage benefits for healthcare
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E-Handbook | August 2018
Biometrics in healthcare further protects clinical data
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Everything you need to know about the FHIR API
Think you're in the know when it comes to the FHIR API? A hands-on FHIR training session at AMIA 2018 answered some questions you might not have thought to ask.
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mHealth (mobile health)
mHealth (mobile health) is a general term for the use of mobile phones and other wireless technology in medical care.
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AMA playbook guides health IT implementation
The American Medical Association created the Digital Health Implementation Playbook, which provides a step-by-step guide to technology implementation, with a focus on remote patient monitoring.
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FDA selects 8 medical device developers into opioid crisis challenge
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Terminated hospital employee allegedly accessed PHI remotely
A Colorado hospital has agreed to pay the OCR $111,400 after a former employee allegedly continued to have access to a web-based scheduling calendar and patient protected health information.
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Establishing interoperable electronic health systems
Too many versions of FHIR spell trouble going forward
Too many versions of the FHIR API are floating around, and that could stall healthcare's move to interoperability. Can FHIR's supporters and detractors come together?
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Google Cloud exec on 'positive digital transformation'
In this Q&A from RSNA 2018, Google Cloud's Greg Moore touts product strengths and expresses his hope that Google products can help the healthcare industry achieve 'positive digital transformation.'
SearchHealthIT Definitions
- mHealth (mobile health)
- ICD-10-CM (Clinical Modification)
- computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
- ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision)
- telemedicine
- PACS (picture archiving and communication system)
- registered health information technician (RHIT)
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