Interoperability

The Senate Committee on Appropriations took Veterans Affairs leaders to task, seeking to determine an endpoint to the long list of issues plaguing the department.

Carefluence OpenAPI proved to be compliant with Office of the National Coordinator criteria by using the FHIR standard. The application programming interface also can used with EHRs for open access.

Software giant unveils Surface-as-a-Service, Windows 10 Enterprise E3 for Cloud Services Providers at its Worldwide Partner Conference. 

McKesson expands its ability to support customers in bundled payment programs with HealthQX’s ClarityQx software.

Its advice includes ways to prevent and contain malware threats; OCR officials stress that these viruses are considered security incidents under HIPAA.

Much like the top 5, the next set of winners includes familiar faces among the most influential health IT experts on Twitter. 

Interoperability makes it possible to have the right information at the right time for the right people to make the right decisions.

Amid the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape peppered with hackers, ransomware, nation-states gunning for coveted PHI, hospitals must safeguard against attempts to penetrate their networks. Here's a roundup of the top IDS and IPS tools for doing that.

The challenge for IT professionals is implementation because a product isn’t truly HIPAA-compliant until the system is in place.

Align your architecture and deployment to work within your budget while keeping in mind your annual costs of maintaining the system.