Interoperability

Managing user privileges is among the most basic practices in any security strategy. Establishing a process also paves the way for other tactics, like provisioning and bridging the gap between IT and HR, that can keep internal and external threats at bay. Experts divulge insights and best practices. 

The academic medical center also intends to open eight precision medicine centers to advance technologies and measurement tools to improve patient care.

Hospitals still not using staffing software are struggling with nurse scheduling which hampers employee morale and, in turn, detracts from patient satisfaction. A new survey suggested that predictive analytics tools can help with both problems simultaneously.

The EHR market has become a media battleground, she said, rather than vendors competing on quality of products and services. So she, and the PR machine Epic is assembling, are girding for the fight. 

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.  

The Seattle-based company, which aims to re-engineer how consumers manage their care’ also brought on a vice president of product management to advance its platform.

The research firm found that no vendor community excels at exchanging records with other vendors and while providers see value in participating in CommonWell and Carequality only a small subset are actively sharing data today.

The company is said to be the first in healthcare to achieve this validation, which ensures the payment network has met standards to protect data.

Rate of attacks has steadily increased since 2015 across all industries; healthcare holds third place with 3.5 percent of organizations experiencing an attack.

Northwell Health replaced its aging email tracker with a system that helps manage compliance, contract review and budget approvals. And it built the new system with existing resources.