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Education and credentials aim to equip providers with practical competency and ultimately help them understand how social media tools can improve care delivery.
Hospital chief information security officers and chief information officers speak very different languages and use very different tools. That can cause friction. But one CISO shows how to "meet in the middle" and "unite against that common enemy."
With little news on Stage 2 meaningful use updates since the proposed rule in April, the Medical Group Management Association is calling on CMS to extend the 2015 reporting period.
When it comes to protecting your organization's data, no one has all the answers, and going it alone can be a recipe for disaster. Whether it's the threat of cyber-attacks from the technologically sophisticated, the misuse of protected health information by a well-intentioned employee, or complying with HIPAA, the challenges are never-ending. If you are a hospital, physician practice or payer organization that has created policies and procedures or are using technology and education to mitigate risk and better protect your organization, apply to present at our Privacy & Security Forum today. The Call for Proposals closes Monday, 9/7.
Fifty hospital and health system members of Premier across 24 states are testing, defining and scaling new strategies in a nationwide effort to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Jigar Kadakia knows a little something about data security. As CISO of Partners HealthCare in Boston, he leads a security team of more than 40 people responsible for keeping the health system well buttoned up. We talked with Kadakia about his approach to glean some ideas that might be useful to other health systems and hospitals big and small.
More than half of healthcare providers are not yet on track to comply with the new code set on Oct. 1, 2015, at least according to a survey published Tuesday.
As demand outstrips supply when it comes to IT talent, particularly in healthcare, it seems that those oft-maligned Millennials are eager to help -- even if it means a move. And they're not in it for the money. (Well, not only the money.)
A health system based in Kentucky has added security muscle targeted at its network-connected medical devices by rolling out technology that monitors the devices for cyber vulnerabilities.
Following two years of considerable financial losses, one health system is considering dropping out of the CMS Pioneer ACO program altogether.