Bill Siwicki

The work has changed from being seen as plumbers to become partners in re-engineering infrastructure.

Innovations created at the New Jersey hospital include a mobile app that allows patients to self-register and even provides driving directions.

By leveraging analytics and lean approaches to IT, the Louisiana system has logged wins on sepsis, a total joint program and pneumonia care.

Approach cybersecurity like war. Then take a defender’s standpoint, share information whenever possible, understand what you really need to accomplish and study history.

Among all industries, healthcare ranks 15th out of 18 in social engineering for security, suggesting a security awareness problem among healthcare professionals that could be putting millions of patients at risk.

Healthcare organizations must be proactive about protecting patient data. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe to skip the reactive reporting and linear approach, the COO of a health information exchange explains.

IoT devices operating on radio frequency, a.k.a. Internet of Radios, are causing a new breed of security headaches. Tips for protecting against them.

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

Some 118 security incidents were either reported to the Department of Health and Human Services or first disclosed in the media in Q3 2016, compared with 89 in Q2 and 63 in Q1, a Protenus report finds.

IT Process Institute CEO Scott Alldridge said healthcare organizations need to support security spending and technologies with IT and process rigor to avoid breaches.