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By Mike Miliard | 05:30 pm | May 23, 2018
The dashboard can help health systems manage the stringent privacy rules of the EU's looming General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect this week.
By Mike Miliard | 05:37 pm | May 22, 2018
Security organizations just made it easier and more effective for hospitals to deploy and operate the dominant infosec frameworks.
By Mike Miliard | 01:24 pm | May 21, 2018
Supreme Court sides with Epic and other employers over workers in the May 21 decision, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the 5-4 majority opinion.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:21 pm | May 18, 2018
The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance standard can help hospitals protect against ransomware and phishing, but is only successfully used by 1.7 percent of large healthcare organizations.
By Jessica Davis | 02:47 pm | May 08, 2018
Inspector general says Defense Health Agency sites failed to consistently implement technical, physical and administrative protocols and may have violated HIPAA regulations in the process.
By Tom Sullivan | 12:33 pm | May 07, 2018
U.S. government got approximately $125 million out of the False Claims case but what about eClinicalWorks customers?
By Jessica Davis | 12:46 pm | May 04, 2018
While gap analysis can find existing vulnerabilities in an organization’s security, it’s not an equal substitution for HIPAA-required risk analysis.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:19 am | May 04, 2018
A look at what has transpired since the EHR vendor agreed to pay a fine in the False Claims suit that rattled the industry.
By Jessica Davis | 04:59 pm | April 30, 2018
Issues with data standardization and the differences in regulations inhibit their potential.
By Jessica Davis | 05:17 pm | April 20, 2018
The board couldn’t rule out conflict of interest in the $62 million contract signed between Epic and the academic medical center to overhaul its legacy EHR and billing systems.