Bill Siwicki

Whether malicious or not, insiders remain a major threat to healthcare organizations, according to the monthly Protenus Breach Barometer.

The vendor also will be announcing new products for value-based care and coding, a top 3M Health Information Systems executive says.

The vendor’s senior director for healthcare on agility, infrastructure and careful vendor scrutiny.

A company executive says the new services will help customers earn payments under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chronic care management program.

On one front, telehealth will become significantly closer to consumers on electronics everyone is very familiar with, the vendor’s CEO says.

Informaticist Nephi Walton says that the cloud can be used to aggregate and harmonize data and argues that in certain ways it is more secure than what hospitals can handle on their own.

The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine takes an app by app approach to its use of cloud computing, employing technology from Salesforce to build custom applications for clinical care and research.  

Beaufort Memorial Hospital has already launched into the cloud with a variety of back-end systems and says it will move its enterprise and clinical systems to the cloud in the next 18 to 24 months.

An executive cautions that the biggest challenge with cloud computing in healthcare is the contract organizations sign with vendors of cloud services.

Now that the healthcare industry is essentially digitized, analytics are moving to the fore for population, risk-sharing and value-based care, according to Geneia CTO Fred Rahmanian.