Tips

Tips

• Support encryption of sensitive health data across locations

  Health organizations can support encryption by controlling the location of sensitive data.  Continue Reading

• 2012 health care trends: Disaster recovery response, PACS and more

  See what 2012 health care trends stood out against all the new developments in the field.  Continue Reading

• Creating a culture of security not just a task for the IT department

  Many providers push security off on their IT department, but creating a culture of security takes the entire staff.  Continue Reading

• Policy, technology foster HIPAA compliance and data breach prevention

  Completing their 2012 health care data breach research, Ponemon Institute and ID Expert sources give data breach prevention and HIPAA compliance tips.  Continue Reading

• RSNA 2012: Push health IT staff, radiologists to speak same language

  Tips from RSNA 2012 session can apply to interfacing any health care IT staffer with non-IT clinicians using the technology they maintain.  Continue Reading

• Develop a new PACS integration strategy to merge data

  Many health care organizations are exploring PACS integration for storage of their medical images.  Continue Reading

• New wave of mHealth apps bridge doctor-patient gap

  There are thousands of mHealth apps for Apple users. Read more in-depth about a few of them.  Continue Reading

• CIO: Pay physician testers, accelerate CPOE meaningful use compliance

  Physicians don't want to be on-the-job beta testers of CPOE meaningful use compliance. So, pay them to do it off-hours.  Continue Reading

• EHR usability testing key to clinician buy-in, meaningful use

  EHR usability testing can predict physician buy-in and should inform vendor selection, application configuration or software design.  Continue Reading

• Migrating medical records to the cloud heeds secure storage security concerns

  The health care data tsunami, and an increase in breaches, lead IT managers to consider cloud storage security concerns.  Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka, on writing a HIPAA-friendly BYOD policy

  Tablets, smartphones and laptops employees bring in can be secured through a thoughtful combination of BYOD policy and technology controls.  Continue Reading

• Providers must consider security of cloud analytics systems

  Cloud analytics systems provide the scalability and low cost providers need, but providers must be aware of their vendor's security offerings.  Continue Reading

• Tune up privacy compliance for coming federal HIPAA audits

  As OCR wraps up the first phase of its HIPAA audit program, health care providers at AHIMA 2012 begin to see how they will work.  Continue Reading

• HIPAA compliance takes patient, employee and vendor follow up

  Making HIPAA compliance a priority, not a barrier in health care involves policies that educate patients, providers, and vendors, at AHIMA 2012.  Continue Reading

• IT managers should consider several factors for long-term data storage

  The volume of a health care organization's data grows exponentially over time. Measures must be taken to keep long-term data from outgrowing the organization's IT infrastructure.  Continue Reading