Three blockchain companies you should know
Blockchain, an emerging technology, is coming to the world of healthcare. Three recently established startups are finding unique ways to apply it to the space.
How do we allow patient identification without compromising critical patient information?
In light of the data breaches we have witnessed, most recently at Equifax, it seems clear that the safest way to reliably and safely identify patients is to separate the identifier from the data.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
‘Cybersecurity has become a full-time job’ in healthcare
As the nature of the threat evolves, there are calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to create a cyber leader in the form of an elevated chief information security officer.
Advocate Health Care to pay record $5.55M HIPAA settlement
The amount is the largest such settlement to date reached with a single organization, according to HHS.
It’s time to simplify health data regulation. Don’t hold your breath
Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
5 non-health tech stories you should care about this week
Plus, wearables may threaten corporate networks, MIT develops new online network for anonymity and voice prints may be the new passwords.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
5 non-health tech stories you should care about this week
EU and U.S. agree to changes to rules on international data transfer, Google Ventures looks for AI in Europe, but end users don't seem quite ready for cognitive computing.
Intermountain, U. Utah to open cybersecurity center with 3 others
Intermountain Healthcare CIO Marc Probst dropped this news — but not the names of the other partners — Monday at the 13th annual World Health Care Congress in Washington.
2015 in health IT: Fear and loathing (a savage journey to the heart of the health IT dream)
2015 was a savage journey to the heart of the Health IT Dream.
Texas rehab hospital’s stupidity causes patient data breach
Protected health information was stored on an unencrypted laptop that someone took out of the hospital and left in a personal vehicle. Seriously, people are still doing this?
BioLabs Pegasus Park Cultivates Life Science Ecosystem
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Six things we learned from Verizon’s report on health data breaches
Breaches of protected health information go far beyond the healthcare industry.
Healthcare information security: A problem all in its own
Although ICD10 and Meaningful Use work may be diminished in 2016, security work is likely to increase. As I’ve told the Board, security is a process, not a project. You’ll get better and better but will never be done.
Before that genomics revolution, we need interoperability, patient engagement and privacy
How do we get this genomics revolution underway? Shake up our healthcare infrastructure by focusing on interoperability, patient engagement and security.
NIST cybersecurity center proposes best practices for mobile EHR security
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards of Technology?, is circulating a draft guidance? on best practices for securing healthcare data on mobile devices.
Majority of healthcare organizations have recently seen ‘significant’ data security incident
87 percent of health information security officers and other health IT professionals said that cybersecurity has become a higher business priority within their organizations in the last year, according to a new HIMSS survey.