Health IT Pulse
September 2014
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Number of data breach response teams rises along with threats
- Content Development Strategist 30 Sep 2014 -
White hat hackers test Healthcare.gov data security
- Executive Editor 29 Sep 2014 -
CMS FAQs clarify meaningful use attestation rules
- Editorial assistant 25 Sep 2014
The most effective efforts to limit the damage inflicted by a data breach start before an incident occurs. This is something that security pros in many industries, including healthcare, have ...
Which do you want first on federal health insurance exchange sites initiated through the Affordable Care Act? The good news, or the bad news? It turns out that the feds employed white hat hackers ...
For providers working on stage 2 meaningful use attestation who have questions on criteria such as summary of care documents, clinical quality measures (CQMs) or when their EHR incentive checks ...
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Patient portals work for family practices, journal study concludes
- News Director 24 Sep 2014 -
Morton in, Fridsma out in separate ONC staff transactions
- Content Development Strategist 23 Sep 2014 -
Department of Homeland Security branch implements eClinicalWorks
- Editorial assistant 22 Sep 2014 -
Republican congressman entertains hosts from across the health IT political divide
- News Director 18 Sep 2014 -
Report documents health data security HIPAA compliance issues
- Editorial assistant 17 Sep 2014 -
National Health IT Week's opening DeSalvo
- Executive Editor 16 Sep 2014 -
ONC releases final 2014 EHR certification criteria
- Content Development Strategist 16 Sep 2014
“By directly engaging patients to use a portal and supporting practices to integrate use into care, primary care practices can match or potentially surpass the usage rates achieved by large health ...
Months after restructuring its internal organization, the ONC now has to adjust to two recent major staff changes. U.S. Navy Capt. Alicia Morton was announced as the next director of the ONC Health ...
Medical professionals who manage care at all 23 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities are now using eClinicalWorks' cloud EHR. The Massachusetts-based healthcare IT ...
Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D., is something of an anomaly: a Republican politician who more or less supports adoption of electronic health records and meaningful use. The key words here are ...
Data security consultant and research firm the SANS Institute estimates that millions of healthcare IT systems are compromised and fail to meet HIPAA's network security requirements in its Health ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Even by-the-book objective journalists can get behind the idea of patient advocacy and consumer engagement. No matter how fair, balanced and disengaged one can be, in the end ...
Providers and technology developers working towards meeting 2014 Edition electronic health record certification standards now have revised and optional criteria to fit into their agendas, after the ...
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Republican "reboot" senators still gunning for meaningful use
- News Director 11 Sep 2014 -
Latest meaningful use delay both expected and baffling
- News Director 03 Sep 2014 -
DoD calls for proposals for new healthcare management systems
- Content Development Strategist 02 Sep 2014
They haven’t gone away. The six Republican senators who unleashed a manifesto last year questioning the basic tenets of meaningful use, HIPAA enforcement and even the efficacy of electronic health ...
Delay, delay and delay again. That seems to be the implementation option of choice for the federal government’s healthcare IT policy in recent years. It’s hard to see exactly what forces pushed the ...
The U.S. Department of Defense issued a request for proposals to update their legacy health IT systems, including their EHR. The project is expected to come with a multi-billion dollar price tag ...