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• When choosing medical imaging software, go with the enterprise model

  As healthcare providers upgrade or replace their medical imaging technology, they should strive for an enterprise approach rather than keeping strictly to cardiology, expert says.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare cyberattacks necessitate use of cloud security tools

  Cloud-based security tools can offer healthcare organizations around-the-clock monitoring and protection at a fraction of the cost of traditional on-premises tools.  Continue Reading

• Care coordination tools bring physicians, data together

  An ideal care coordination tool should be user-friendly and integrate with EHRs and other external data sources, as well as offer real-time communication capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Five common concerns of cloud services in healthcare

  While the cloud is gaining traction in healthcare, some hospital executives are hesitant to adopt cloud services due to concerns about data security and HIPAA compliance.  Continue Reading

• Experts say secure healthcare communication should function like email

  Secure messaging in healthcare can save providers and patients time and frustration, but the security of PHI should always be the number one priority.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine vendors can learn from collaboration software tools

  Collaboration software tools like Slack can offer valuable lessons for telemedicine, such as accessing data in real time, that can lead to a wider adoption in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Blockchain technology in healthcare could ease PHI exchange

  Although some healthcare executives are leery of the new technology, blockchain may have the potential to make it easier for approved entities to exchange PHI.  Continue Reading

• What is your healthcare enterprise imaging strategy?

  Hospitals that are looking to buy an enterprise imaging system should consider integration with other systems and analytics capabilities before making a decision.  Continue Reading

• Five components of a successful population health analytics initiative

  To implement a successful population health analytics initiative, healthcare organizations need to use the right tools to meet clinicians' needs and define potential data gaps.  Continue Reading

• Build a security awareness campaign to educate healthcare employees

  Healthcare organizations can complement their existing security tools and strategies by providing security awareness training to employees to further protect against attacks.  Continue Reading

• C-levels discuss evolution of next-gen EHR, consumerization of healthcare

  EHRs will not be exempt from the consumerization of healthcare and this transformation will ultimately result in a next-gen EHR. Experts explain.  Continue Reading

• How healthcare organizations can prepare for cloud service outages

  Healthcare organizations should have a DR and business continuity plan to retain access to patient charts and administrative services in case of a cloud service outage.  Continue Reading

• Patient engagement technology can improve outcomes and enhance care

  Patient engagement tools, such as virtual assistants and health apps, can help healthcare providers improve the physician-patient relationship and improve outcomes.  Continue Reading

• Hospital cybersecurity isn't easy; CIO and CISO offer advice

  There is no magic bullet, no single software that will fully secure a healthcare organization. But there are strategies that will help with hospital cybersecurity. Experts weigh in.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare CISO discusses security challenges for medical devices

  Healthcare organizations need to connect procurement and cybersecurity to avoid common mistakes that could compromise medical device security, says a healthcare CISO.  Continue Reading

• Artificial intelligence makes scanning medical records easier

  Medical-records scanning can be costly and time-consuming for healthcare organizations that want to go paperless. Artificial intelligence can ease the process.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare cybersecurity must complement HIPAA compliance

  The biggest threat to healthcare data security is often unauthorized access by staff. Behavior tracking can detect snooping by employees and identify users who have been hacked.  Continue Reading

• Five reasons small medical practices are vulnerable to cyberattacks

  Small medical practices are often targeted by cybercriminals due to weak security practices, such as the lack of security maturity and nonstandardized regulatory requirements.  Continue Reading

• Four areas to consider when shoring up your ePHI security

  Healthcare organizations should be sure to include updated log management configuration and a comprehensive security framework in their ePHI security plan.  Continue Reading

• Why healthcare ransomware attacks are a growing threat to health IT

  There are several factors that leave hospitals vulnerable to ransomware attacks, including the use of legacy systems and the fear of financial penalties due to a data breach.  Continue Reading

• Mobile in healthcare: The challenges, what makes a successful mobile app

  The CEO of Medisafe, a medication management mobile application, discusses the challenges with mobile in healthcare and what makes a successful mobile health app.  Continue Reading

• Six health IT trends and technologies executives should watch in 2017

  Cybersecurity and blockchain received a lot of attention in 2016, and both trends are expected to remain on the radars of healthcare executives in 2017.  Continue Reading

• Value-based care delivery best practices from an expert

  Best practices for value-based care include making data a strategic asset, empowering curiosity about data among clinicians and other staff, and looking for small victories.  Continue Reading

• Five tips for preventing a hospital ransomware attack

  Hospitals will continue to be a prime target for cyberattacks in 2017, but IT can prevent an attack by training end users on email best practices and monitoring network traffic.  Continue Reading

• Five ways a healthcare virtual assistant can improve patient engagement

  Voice-based virtual assistants such as Cortana and Alexa can be used to set medication and appointment reminders, or as a patient education tool.  Continue Reading

• Four common challenges of telemedicine in healthcare

  Internal video conferencing is gaining steam in healthcare organizations, but there are telemedicine challenges that prevent the technology from being accessible to patients.  Continue Reading

• Preventing ransomware: Healthcare CIO discusses top technologies

  Security is a top concern in health IT, especially given that attacks have become more sophisticated and frequent. A CIO talks about key technologies for preventing ransomware.  Continue Reading

• How PHR vendors can drive interoperability, patient engagement

  Personal health record vendors seek to gain widespread adoption among patients by centralizing patient-generated data and medical records.  Continue Reading

• Four ways EHR vendors are utilizing advanced analytics in healthcare

  EHR vendors are turning to advanced healthcare analytics to provide hospitals and physicians with a data hub for population health management and identify at-risk populations.  Continue Reading

• Methods for preventing hospital ransomware infections and cyberattacks

  As hackers continue to use more sophisticated tools to execute cyberattacks, there are six steps IT can take to prevent hospital ransomware infections and other cyberthreats.  Continue Reading

• IoT security vulnerabilities turn hospital CIOs' dreams into nightmares

  As the internet of things becomes more widely adopted in hospitals, CIOs and health IT staff must be aware of the challenges of IoT in healthcare, such as device management.  Continue Reading

• Hospital IT must manage, secure remote patient monitoring devices

  With more physicians prescribing wearables and other remote patient monitoring technology to patients, hospital IT must be aware of security and management challenges.  Continue Reading

• Six areas to consider before buying healthcare revenue cycle software

  Hospitals and other organizations that are close to buying healthcare financial software should evaluate their charge capture and submission capabilities, as well as coding processes.  Continue Reading

• How to battle ransomware in healthcare: Tips from a pro

  Fighting ransomware in healthcare is an ongoing and seemingly never-ending battle. A health IT security expert discusses effective tactics healthcare organizations can take.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare ransomware attack: Prevention and backups are critical

  A healthcare ransomware attack may be inevitable. They've increased 300% since 2015. One CIO says that prevention measures and backups are key to protecting the organization.  Continue Reading

• Adoption of cloud in healthcare picks up as patient data grows

  As patient data grows, healthcare organizations face an increasing demand for storage. The enterprise hybrid cloud may be a viable alternative to on-premises infrastructures.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare asset management key to securing medical imaging systems

  Hospitals can prevent cybersecurity breaches by managing healthcare assets such as MRI and CT scanners and requiring mobile devices to register with an MDM solution.  Continue Reading

• Five challenges of IoT in healthcare that put it at risk of failure

  The internet of things has the potential to provide physicians with valuable data that can improve patient outcomes, but there are several barriers to IoT adoption in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• The common health data storage mistake that healthcare CIOs make

  Health data storage helps healthcare organizations remain up and running and helps them innovate. That's why using the right storage tech is so important. A CTO weighs in.  Continue Reading

• CTO: EHR market challenges and how this technology will evolve

  The former CTO of Epic Systems Corp. and current CTO of Pure Storage discusses the challenges facing the EHR market today and shares his thoughts on how he thinks EHRs will evolve.  Continue Reading

• FHIR encourages innovation in health app development

  Health app developers can use the FHIR platform to create applications that support and facilitate interoperability between EHR systems.  Continue Reading

• Integrating an EHR and VNA system? Here are the challenges.

  Implementing an EHR and VNA system at the same time is a daunting task. A CIO who has experience implementing both systems at the same time discusses the challenges he encountered.  Continue Reading

• A healthcare CIO talks about what to look for in a VNA system

  Looking for a VNA system? A healthcare CIO who has already gone through the process of finding and implementing a VNA shares his advice.  Continue Reading

• Integrating vendor neutral archives and population health technologies

  A health IT expert discusses the role vendor neutral archives can play in population health, what's needed to integrate the two technologies and the barriers in the way.  Continue Reading

• Advances in precision medicine technology spur new EHR functionality

  EHRs need to support substantial amounts of health data and interoperability in order for precision medicine to become more accessible to patients.  Continue Reading

• For effective healthcare data protection try a 'layered' approach

  Healthcare organizations can protect patient data from breaches with a three-layered approach that combines traditional and advanced protection features.  Continue Reading

• Hospitals, medical records software vendors must step up to share data

  Data analytics in healthcare is at a crucial point, as EHRs must share more data and beef up interoperability. This ambitious order rests at the feet of vendors and providers.  Continue Reading

• Five steps for responding to hospital ransomware attacks

  Hospitals are prime targets for ransomware attacks. Health IT teams must move quickly to identify and isolate a ransomware infection to keep it from spreading.  Continue Reading

• Managing IoT medical devices poses challenges for IT

  Connected medical devices are becoming more widespread in healthcare, but security and management options are limited for IT teams.  Continue Reading

• Hospital telecommunications network tips from an expert

  Building in redundancy, using VLANs and accommodating EHR workflow volume, IoT capabilities and patient Wi-Fi access are all essential to good hospital network design.  Continue Reading

• Revenue cycle data analytics helps with value-based reimbursement, MACRA

  It's important to understand how technology can help a healthcare organization achieve value-based reimbursement. A health IT expert discusses the role of revenue cycle data analytics.  Continue Reading

• Chronic care management model requires new EHR capabilities

  The chronic care model requires interoperability and collaborative capabilities to coordinate a patient's care, but not all EHR systems include the necessary features.  Continue Reading

• Four tenets of a successful telehealth program implementation

  Implementing a successful telehealth program can be a challenge. Health IT experts from Mass General share four key steps to ensuring a telehealth initiative will be successful.  Continue Reading

• How to meet HIPAA compliance requirements with personal cloud storage

  Cloud storage options are popular among end users, but data protection concerns may hinder their acceptance in healthcare. Follow these best practices to secure data in the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Chief Innovation Officer discusses implementing CRM in healthcare

  A CIO discusses how his healthcare organization is using CRM in healthcare. He believes more and more healthcare organizations will begin to use CRM to improve patient care.  Continue Reading

• Avoid telehealth technology roadblocks with flash storage

  The amount and format of clinical information running through telehealth technology can lead to video conferencing hiccups. Flash storage is an option to consider in such cases.  Continue Reading

• MACRA rules: Ten things to know about the new healthcare law

  An expert's tips for how physicians paid by Medicare can begin to navigate the quickly accelerating transformation into new payment models -- and the related technology -- under MACRA.  Continue Reading

• As hospital ransomware threats rise, cloud is one, but not only, option

  Ransomware attacks on hospitals garner media attention and create headaches for health IT pros. The cloud offers potential answers, but it may not be better than on-premises defenses.  Continue Reading

• How to achieve interoperability of health information systems

  Creating interoperability of health information systems is harder than it needs to be, a group of experts says. Here are the solutions they think will work.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare cybersecurity strategies: Balance the human factor with technology

  Healthcare cybersecurity is a mixture of employee training and technology, but how much of either? And what cybersecurity strategies should be used? A security expert explains.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare financial management through business intelligence tools

  Analytics may make it easier for healthcare organizations to diagnose the most troublesome aspects of the revenue cycle management process and avoid claims denials.  Continue Reading

• Medical data storage: What health IT can learn from retail

  When it comes to medical data storage and utilizing that data, healthcare could take a pointer or two from retail, an analyst says.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare collaboration platform can unite employees, patient data

  Healthcare employees could soon be using a new collaborative platform from Microsoft to virtually meet with each other and interact with health information.  Continue Reading

• Storage advice for healthcare CIOs: Tech to support a storage plan

  One CIO discusses how his healthcare organization chose a storage vendor and developed a storage plan, and offers advice to healthcare CIOs about how they can do the same.  Continue Reading

• Hospital data protection policy must bond storage and mobile

  The secure handling of mobile data -- and related information protection requirements from HIPAA -- leads to the need for examining a healthcare organization's storage technology.  Continue Reading

• CMIO: Steps to solve the healthcare interoperability problem

  Stanford Health Care CMIO offers tips on what can be done to improve interoperability in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• The power of a health bot lies in patient administration

  Learn how providers can conserve their resources by using healthcare bots for administrative duties such as appointment scheduling, billing and processing payments.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare VDI installations offer protection to health IT

  IT departments are weighing VDI implementations in healthcare facilities to decrease the security threats associated with user devices, among other reasons.  Continue Reading

• MGH physician weighs in on avoiding EHR errors

  More often than not, the information in a patient's medical record is incorrect, a physician says. Here's how to reduce EHR errors.  Continue Reading

• BI in healthcare is both appreciated and underused

  Providers can now do more than analyze past patient data with healthcare BI tools. They can possibly reduce readmissions and assign facility resources with predictive analytics.  Continue Reading

• An evaluation of the regional extension center program

  A report on regional extension centers, mostly associated with meaningful use and EHRs, found the centers helped providers use some EHR features.  Continue Reading

• Storage technology in healthcare can aid app performance

  Storage is the component that affects virtual desktop performance and virtual application performance more than any other. Here are considerations for hospitals.  Continue Reading

• Ten ways to stop a ransomware threat targeting healthcare data

  Educating employees on Internet safety and limiting their network access are two of the most worthwhile methods for avoiding ransomware attacks on healthcare systems.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare application development could gain from gamification

  Learn how the trend of gamifying apps can be applied during the health application development process to engage and motivate a larger base of people to improve their wellbeing.  Continue Reading

• Health app development contests devised by HHS, ONC

  A pair of government healthcare agencies announced three contests that will award six-figure sums to developers that make apps that are assets to patients and providers.  Continue Reading

• CIOs offer pointers on healthcare cybersecurity vulnerabilities

  CIOs offered advice at HIMSS 2016 on best practices and technologies to help identify and protect against healthcare cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Here's what they had to say.  Continue Reading

• CMS makes plans for the end of meaningful use

  Andy Slavitt, the acting administrator of CMS, was very direct in stating that meaningful use is winding down and will be replaced by an improved program.  Continue Reading

• Chief innovation officer on Zika virus tracking technologies

  John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's, is no stranger to using technology to track diseases. He shares his insights on Zika virus tracking technologies.  Continue Reading

• More healthcare VDI deployments in industry's future

  The number of implementations of VDI in healthcare facilities is expected to keep growing in the coming years, thanks to recent strides made in the virtualization market.  Continue Reading

• Vendors of public cloud platforms pitching to health IT

  Unmoved by the benefits of shifting some of their operations to the public cloud, some healthcare providers are letting cloud providers bring their services to them.  Continue Reading

• Reduce or prevent healthcare cybersecurity attacks

  In this Q&A, the former CIO of Community Health Systems discusses how to prevent healthcare cyberattacks and lessons learned during his career.  Continue Reading

• Former healthcare CIO talks cybersecurity in healthcare

  A CIO whose healthcare organization was an early victim of cyberattacks talks about what should be done to remain secure.  Continue Reading

• Common failures of responding to security breaches in healthcare

  Attackers that cause healthcare data breaches can sometimes access the breached systems later on. Health IT departments should factor delayed hacks into their recovery plans.  Continue Reading

• Benefits of single sign-on in healthcare

  Does your healthcare organization understand the benefits of single sign-on products? Learn how healthcare professionals quickly log on to multiple applications without much hassle.  Continue Reading

• HIPAA covered entities to be tested by audits in 2016

  The Office for Civil Rights, under HHS, is ready to begin the next wave of HIPAA compliance audits on covered entities. Find out what they should expect and how to prepare.  Continue Reading

• Radiology to gain from artificial intelligence in healthcare

  Some radiologists may be unsure of how much they can trust artificial intelligence, but they should see it as a tool to review their work and check it against similar cases.  Continue Reading

• Cloud medical imaging storage is the way of the future

  PACS and VNAs are the image storage standards in healthcare. Cloud medical imaging storage presents benefits that may intrigue healthcare providers to ditch PACS and VNAs.  Continue Reading

• Undeveloped interoperability in healthcare isolates patient data

  Interoperability in healthcare isn't as advanced as it is in other industries. One innovator used an existing health IT standard to make it easier to share disparate data.  Continue Reading

• Physicians hope to make changes to EHR market

  The EHR market is saturated with traditional on-premises options, leaving newer vendors to carefully consider which platforms and customers to target.  Continue Reading

• The diverse use cases for cloud in healthcare

  Healthcare cloud services come in various forms, including analytics models and system backups. Those are two of the reasons cloud has the attention of health IT professionals.  Continue Reading

• Paper health records slowly being phased out by hospitals

  Paper health records and other forms are frequently scanned into hospitals' electronic systems. Find out why an organization hired a third party to do its scanning.  Continue Reading

• Make patient documentation more flexible with SharePoint

  Enterprise content management systems, such as Microsoft's SharePoint, can aid clinical staff with patient documentation tasks.  Continue Reading

• Clinical analytics platforms simplify healthcare data mining

  It can be difficult to organize and make sense of healthcare data sets without the help of clinical analytics. Find out what you should know before buying an analytics product.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine technology and patient engagement initiatives

  Vendors of unified communications systems are aware of the value their products offer to healthcare providers with telemedicine technology.  Continue Reading

• Tablets in healthcare: iPad Pro and Surface Pro 3 battle for top spot

  Our expert breaks down how to deploy tablets in healthcare and compares the features of the iPad Pro and Surface Pro 3.  Continue Reading

• Health data analytics should be a priority for physicians

  Though many physicians feel they have more pressing technology concerns, their practices could be enhanced by applying more health data analytics.  Continue Reading

• How healthcare executives can safely use clinical data

  Healthcare executives and IT departments shouldn't neglect protecting the growing amount of data that's at their disposal.  Continue Reading

• Providers make final push before ICD-10 deadline

  Internal testing, employee education and training are three of the most important actions providers should take ahead of the ICD-10 deadline.  Continue Reading

• Stop a healthcare data breach with help from analytics, AI

  Catching a healthcare data breach before it damages an organization's operations may be as simple as adding analytics to existing security.  Continue Reading

• Windows 10 creates chance for tablets in healthcare

  The use of tablets in healthcare is rising. EHR vendors should note users' demands and incorporate more touchscreen capabilities into their systems.  Continue Reading