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Hospital IT systems and applications

• Healthcare spending infographic: Security tops priorities

  New infographic details the top healthcare spending trends from TechTarget's health IT purchasing survey, with security investments a likely priority.  Continue Reading

• Open data group steps up from Health Datapalooza

  Chris Boone, new executive director of Health Data Consortium, is boosting group's profile from stager of Health Datapalooza to Capitol Hill player.  Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka in intriguing EHR venture with athenahealth

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CIO John Halamka leads the hospital system into an unusual joint venture with EHR vendor athenahealth Inc.  Continue Reading

• Wearable technologies, cloud guide the future of healthcare

  The advancement of cloud, artificial intelligence and analytics will go a long way in determining the future of health IT.  Continue Reading

• Radiology one specialty included in federal health IT programs

  The meaningful use program wasn't designed with medical specialties in mind, which has caused some radiologists to struggle to satisfy its criteria.  Continue Reading

• Radiologists have and will face meaningful use audits

  CMS has audited healthcare systems and doctors for meaningful use, and radiologists should prepare for the same.  Continue Reading

• Home health monitoring could be part of your cable bill

  AT&T is venturing into remote patient monitoring using its existing home security system technology.  Continue Reading

• Clinical decision support system tracks quality care measures

  Providers that don't schedule checkups frequently enough can be reminded by providers that deploy a clinical decision support system.  Continue Reading

• Single health IT standard not feasible, says Doug Fridsma

  Doug Fridsma discusses the difficulties of uniting all providers under one health IT standard and talks about his move from ONC to AMIA.  Continue Reading

• Despite bad rap, HIPAA omnibus rule helps sustain health IT

  Shared accountability among vendors for data breaches is one reason the HIPAA omnibus rule is helping expand cloud usage in the health IT realm.  Continue Reading

• Imprivata user locks down terminals as virtualization grows

  A healthcare system in Michigan reports that it saves countless hours of clinicians' time by using a single sign-on system from Imprivata.  Continue Reading

• Supercharge patient privacy for HIPAA omnibus era

  From collection to transfer and analytics, patient privacy and data security must be maintained for the digital era of HIPAA compliance, just like it was in the dead-tree era of paper records.  Continue Reading

• Securing protected health information starts with HIPAA

  The term 'HIPAA' is discussed so often that it can be easy to lose track of what it was created to do. Learn exactly what HIPAA is and how to stay on the right side of it.  Continue Reading

• Nuance moves into medical image sharing

  Nuance Inc., after acquiring medical image sharing cloud Accelarad, is trying to marry the substantial customer bases of both companies.  Continue Reading

• Patient portals create interoperability puzzles

  How mobile operating systems, EHR vendor interaction and health system implementations complicate patient portal interoperability.  Continue Reading