Security

The first stage of the Department of Defense's EHR modernization project will not be ready in time for its scheduled December rollout, according to a recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General.

Stamford Podiatry Group notified patients that cybercriminals breached its EHR database for nearly two months and could have accessed personally identifiable information and personal health information.

A surge of recent developments – the rise in apps for care management and wellness, advances in research data, precision medicine gains – is placing a great responsibility on healthcare leaders to break down data silos to simplify data sharing among providers. And consumers, too.

The protected health information of thousands of football players may have been compromised after a backpack that held a laptop containing the digital medical records of NFL team members was stolen from the car of a Washington Redskins trainer.

CHIME has named two winners of the "Concept Blitz Round" of the National Patient ID Challenge it launched with HeroX, selected from an initial round of eight finalists.

Speak their language. Don’t talk too deeply about technology. But also remember to pitch the innovative ways that investing in security can improve the business, executives from Henry Ford, NIST, PwC, Texas Children's and others advise.

For the U.S. to effectively digitize their infrastructure, the National Association of State CIOs said a stable and talented workforce is needed.

By Mike Willingham, Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Caradigm The mandate for healthcare information security is clear.

The document outlines eight guidelines for achieving precision medicine principles, including a ‘participant-first’ system.

The chief information officer and CHIME board chair testified that it is vital for Health and Human Services to institute a coordinated plan for protecting data and systems against cyberattacks.