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• Why HIPAA Compliance Does Not Equal Data Security

  8/9/2016

  Many healthcare organizations structure cybersecurity efforts primarily around HIPAA compliance. Because penalties for noncompliance are so stiff, the healthcare industry focuses on HIPAA and is consequently lulled into compliance complacency. This is an erroneous belief that mere compliance inoculates them from every imaginable cyber threat. Unsurprisingly, healthcare has the dubious distinction of being the most likely industry to experience a data breach.

• Addressing America's Looming Healthcare Gap Crisis During COVID-19

  10/5/2020

  While putting off care during the initial onset of the coronavirus made sense, continuing to do so will affect long-term outcomes. Here’s how providers can get patients back on track.

• How Fake Emails Have Become A Real Threat

  8/1/2018

  To start the year, news broke of an attack that used a phishing email scam to steal 30,000 medical records from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Similar phishing attacks have happened every month since the November attack, exposing tens of thousands more records. More attacks are assuredly underway — and on the way.

• Are Open APIs The Future Of Meaningful Use?

  2/1/2016

  CMS has finally conceded to the weaknesses of their EHR Incentive Program, or Meaningful Use (MU). In recent announcements, Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt admitted the program has lacked the focus on interoperability and usability it should have had and that it is time for a change. The new plan is to find a solution that ties together the incentive programs like MU and PQRS with the move towards value-based reimbursement and a deeper focus on data sharing. By Tom Giannulli, MS, MD, CMIO, Kareo

• Big Data: The Right Prescription For Providers And Patients

  2/9/2016

  Big Data, aka the biggest challenge facing organizations everywhere, isn’t going away anytime soon. According to IBM, every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. To give you an idea of what that may look like, one terabyte alone is the equivalent of 4.5 million books — overwhelming to think about, especially for healthcare providers. From medical charts and prescriptions to financial and insurance information, patients generate a lot of data throughout their lifetimes. Some of that data is structured. However, even within sophisticated healthcare organizations, most of it — paper documents, ad hoc emails, data created through monitoring devices, for example — is not. As healthcare moves toward more of an evidence based model, data will play more of an instrumental role. Now more than ever, it’s important for healthcare providers to realize organizational success has less to do with how much data they gather and more to do with how data is utilized. By Andre Vandenberk, VP of Product Management and Lori Frampton, VP of Patient Flow Process Improvement & Data Analysis both of Medworxx, an Aptean Company

• AHIMA 2009 Video Booth Visits

  10/27/2009

  Ken Congdon, chief editor at Health IT Outcomes, shares conversations with vendors while at AHIMA 2009.