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• The Patient Safety Risks Of EHR Errors

  12/6/2019

  Accurate patient identification is fundamental component to safe care delivery. Yet, providers remain daunted by electronic health record (EHR) systems that contain errors and fail to communicate or transmit information effectively. The issue of poor patient identification becomes exponentially more problematic and dangerous as more data is generated and more applications are introduced into the healthcare environment.

• 5 Ways Health IT Shackles Physicians

  7/6/2016

  It seems every week there’s another study documenting the problems physicians have with healthcare IT. The findings invariably are consistent with what the AMA has been saying for the past several years — physicians overwhelmingly dislike EHR systems’ poor usability and interoperability, and resent the extra time they have to spend at the keyboard.

• Healthcare's Spike In Cloud Adoption Raises Questions For Hospitals And Security Practitioners

  9/4/2018

  It might come as a surprise, being in one of the most highly-regulated industries around, that the healthcare sector has made significant strides when it comes to embracing the public cloud and the myriad cloud applications that exist today. Messaging apps like Slack enable rapid communication while file sync and share apps like Box enable instant collaboration. A good example of a cloud app that has become essential in large enterprises is Microsoft’s Office 365. Adoption in the healthcare industry has nearly doubled in since 2016, up from 30.9 to 57.3 percent in 2018. At the same time, with adoption of new technologies, the door is often left open for nefarious actors to take advantage of misconfigurations and careless employee practices that leave data exposed.

• Video: Harris Corporation Presents On Interoperability At HIMSS 2011

  3/8/2011

  In this video, Tony Galluscio, the Director of Interoperability for Harris Healthcare Solutions, discusses the company’s enterprise interoperability framework they showcased at the HIMSS 2011 show in Orlando.
• Your Secret Weapon For Effective Data Analytics Isn't What You Think It Is

  7/24/2017

  Healthcare organizations know how to move mountains with limited resources — particularly IT resources. Hospitals, medical research firms, biopharmaceutical companies, and more work to deliver outstanding patient care, drive breakthroughs in the field, and jump hurdles in real time as they arise. By Ellen Rubin, CEO and co-founder, ClearSky Data

• GDPR Vs. HIPAA — Noting The Differences

  12/15/2017

  If you are in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the European Union, you may have already started working towards GDPR compliance. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is a set of compliance requirements that comes into effect in May 2018 and will apply to any organization that deals with data provided by citizens of the European Union. In other words, this ruling can apply to your organization even if you are based outside the EU but handle data pertaining to patients from the EU.