Bill Siwicki
Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.
Some 118 security incidents were either reported to the Department of Health and Human Services or first disclosed in the media in Q3 2016, compared with 89 in Q2 and 63 in Q1, a Protenus report finds.
IT Process Institute CEO Scott Alldridge said healthcare organizations need to support security spending and technologies with IT and process rigor to avoid breaches.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is harnessing artificial intelligence to identify people with chronic disease risk factors who will also respond well to using remote monitoring technologies. The task is tricky, to be certain.
The North Carolina city tapped analytics tools to help hospitals better serve an influx of immigrants in the community by understanding the patients on both individual and system levels.
The system helps provide nurses with a comprehensive, single-source view of the factors most associated with driving nursing excellence – quality, patient experience and nursing engagement, the vendor said.
The Mentrics system from ODH will integrate data to support prevention, treatment and recovery services for persons with mental health and substance use disorders in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties.
Security professionals should begin by making anti-malware efforts relevant and routine. From there, leverage the technology you have and make sure users know that software can only do so much to protect them.
Almost all are aware that they are actively being eyed by cybercriminals, but only 22 percent said they are fully prepared to combat criminal security breaches, KPMG noted in a new report.
The vendor also has announced the availability of Dell EMC InfoArchive 4.1 and Dell EMC Clinical Archiving 2.0 software.