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HIMSS Board Chair and Partners HealthCare deputy CIO Scott MacLean on Monday revealed a new collaboration between the Continua Health Alliance, HIMSS and the mHealth Summit.
HIPAA "has seen a lot of action lately," said Susan McAndrew, deputy director for health information privacy at the Department for Health and Human Services' Office For Civil Rights, at HIMSS14 on Monday.
American war veterans and reservists commit suicide every day in the United States as a result of mental health damage sustained in deployment. A fledgling program is aiming to help those veterans heal and into health IT careers.
Protecting your hospital's data is no longer just about managing the systems inside your enterprise. Changes being considered in federal privacy regulations are prompting the legal counsel at many hospitals to begin looking at the security policies of contractors and even sub-contractors.
A CMIO predicts a blackout period, followed by stages of stability, before the real changes even kick in come October 2015. That's right: 2015.
Wouldn't it be advantageous to determine what opportunities ICD-10 will present and what risks can be mitigated today?
"Rural is not a smaller version of urban," said Tom Morris, associate administrator for rural health policy at Health Resources and Services Administration, speaking Sunday at the pre-conference symposium, "Health IT and Rural Healthcare: Embracing Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges."
At its all-member meeting on Sunday, the EHR Association recognized 17 health IT companies that have adopted the EHR Developer Code of Conduct. The Code was developed by the association and introduced in June 2013.
Who's responsible when a medical device breaks down or is hacked -- the manufacturer who made it or the healthcare provider who's using it?
Due to the three-staged structure of the meaningful use timeline, eligible providers and hospitals have tended to approach the process in a literal, rigid way. But there's a change afoot, which some may call MU 2.0.