Compliance & Legal

A comprehensive cybersecurity plan combines traditional IT access with legacy telephony and on-premises access powered by AI.

Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, looks at what we should do with robotics to improve life for patients and caregivers.

Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, CCIO of Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, says the new government strategy document is pivotal in changing the balance of healthcare by focusing on patient engagement and open standards and ensuring greater data transparency.

Matt Fisher, partner and chair of the health law group at Mirick O'Connell, says hospitals need to  know the facts about HIPAA compliance (it does not gurantee security), risk analysis (it shouldn't necessarily be done alone), business associate agreements (read them, don't just sign them) and cyber insurance (it's not a panacea).

(SPONSORED) Caleb Barlow, vice president of threat intelligence at IBM Security, says sometimes a hospital's response (or lack thereof) to a data breach can be as damaging as the breach itself.

Results of two polls published in the past week, from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew Research Center, demonstrate growing support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

Michael Hodgkins, MD, outlines provider's challenges with EHR, the risk of physician burnout, and difficulty in complying with new requirements.

John Halamka, MD, served the Bush administration for four years and the Obama administration for six. Change in Washington happens incrementally, he says: There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.

"As I've said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond meaningful use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program," writes John Halamka, MD.