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Is Big Data Fueling Breaches?
Data breaches continue to dominate healthcare headlines, leading one to wonder if the unprecedented growth of Big Data is to blame? Health Data Consortium CEO Chris Boone shares his thoughts on this subject and more.

Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health
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Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?
How robotics has the power to transform healthcare. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016
Ransomware is now a prominent threat to hospitals. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The Cloud
Cloud encryption alone is not enough; it must be paired with tougher regulation. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
HIMSS14 NEWS
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Innovation Meets Efficiency: New AI Technology Enhances Pediatric Documentation Workflows4/2/2025
Office Practicum, the leader in pediatric EHR solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Insight Health to bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to pediatric practices nationwide.
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ProsperityEHR Debuts Next-Gen EHR To Keep Behavioral Health Practices Thriving3/25/2025
Today marks the official launch of ProsperityEHR, an innovative electronic health record (EHR) platform designed specifically to help behavioral health organizations enhance financial stability, streamline operations and improve patient care.
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TPIsoftware And Yuan's General Hospital Join Forces To Revolutionize Healthcare With GenAI Digital Health Platform3/19/2025
TPIsoftware (TWSE: 7781) and Yuan's General Hospital, a leading medical institution in Southern Taiwan, have collaborated to launch a digital health platform that leverages generative AI technology to facilitate data transformation and streamline data exchange within hospital information systems (HIS), enhancing operational efficiency with automated medical processes.
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Huntsville Hospital Health System Standardizes On Oracle Health To Improve Patient Care And Drive Innovation3/19/2025
Huntsville Hospital Health System (HH Health), one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health systems, is expanding its relationship with Oracle Health to help enhance patient care, accelerate innovation, and increase operational efficiency across its network.
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New Research Reveals 82% Of Rehab Therapy Leaders Believe Specialty EHRs Would Improve Patient And Business Outcomes3/18/2025
Net Health, a trusted source for specialized software solutions that empower healthcare providers, today announced the findings from a January 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting Opportunity Snapshot study titled, "Improve Clinical Outcomes and Grow Practices with Rehab-Specific, Next-Gen EHR.
VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14
FEATURED CONTENT
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Why You Should Care About Healthcare Engagement Analytics7/8/2015
It’s an accepted truth that a strong doctor-patient relationship is essential for effective healthcare. Healthcare engagement is the emotional, financial, physical, and social involvement or commitment a patient has with the healthcare ecosystem. So, when someone asks why should we care about healthcare engagement? The answer is simple: because it impacts every area of a healthcare system – from the patient’s physical health to the financial health of an organization.
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Logicare Saves 30% On Hardware With NetApp Solutions To Futureproof Digital Hospital Operations11/17/2009Digitalization in the healthcare industry requires a transition to flexible storage and data management. With digitalization, hospitals can have access to patient data from the time of patient intake and diagnosis to bedside care to the archiving of medical records. These organizations need a high-performance IT infrastructure that is reliable and flexible. By NetApp
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To Click or Not to Click — That Is The Question: How To Avoid Or Rapidly Recover From Data Breaches9/29/2016
Information can be one’s greatest ally, but for many organizations it can also become public enemy #1. The healthcare industry has learned this the hard way in 2016 as it has increasingly fallen victim to a series of ransomware attacks.
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Active Archive: Front-End File System For Tape And Disk6/17/2010Tape has come back into its own, with the advent of new hardware and software that lets tape act like disk. This completes the cycle, with tape initially used like disk for mainframes. In that context, tape served as storage of data to be acted on, and was loaded into the computer only for manipulation. By Spectra Logic Corporation
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Patient Engagement: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever5/29/2014
Healthcare is fast entering what could be called the Age of Engagement – an era destined to transform the patient-doctor relationship while also re-writing the playbook on how to successfully run a medical practice.
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SEAL Shield Eliminates Pathogens3/10/2014
SEAL Shield VP of technology, Christian Davis, attended HIMSS to demonstrate his company’s infection prevention solution. SEAL Shield’s electronic PC enclosure allows providers to effectively have electronics in an environment where they are not collecting and redistributing airborne pathogens.