Skip to main content

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has nearly 40 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

By Bill Siwicki | 08:06 am | August 03, 2016
After detonating various strains of ransomware in its lab, security specialist Exabeam learned that because encrypting large data-sets takes time, hospitals hit with ransomware can stop it, if they act quickly.  
By Bill Siwicki | 04:44 pm | July 20, 2016
Wellcentive complements Philips’ health IT portfolio with cloud-based IT systems to manage clinical, claims and financial data to help providers deliver care that meets new quality requirements and reimbursement models, Philips said.
By Bill Siwicki | 08:17 am | July 20, 2016
William Yasnoff, MD, has developed a personal grid format that can prevent hackers from accessing an entire database full of patient records. Hospitals or IT vendors can use the tactic – for free – to force cybercriminals to decrypt one record at a time.
By Bill Siwicki | 08:11 am | July 20, 2016
Health and Human Services said in a new report to Congress that current regulations are not keeping pace with consumer engagement tools, including fitness trackers, social media, mobile health apps and wearables.
By Bill Siwicki | 07:58 am | July 20, 2016
Google’s artificial intelligence technology is working on health issues but its reliance on large troves of health data has some CISOs, physicians and patients concerned.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:17 pm | July 18, 2016
Nearly 8 in 10 physicians in a new survey said they prefer fee-for-service over risk-bearing, value-based care under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
By Bill Siwicki | 09:05 am | July 18, 2016
The chief information security officer and chief information officer roles are intertwined, yet clearly different. Executives review organizational structures that work, and why.
By Bill Siwicki | 09:05 am | July 18, 2016
All executives with a C-level title should be working together toward the organization's mission. Here's how University of Vermont Health System and Christiana Care executives are teaming up to make that happen. 
By Bill Siwicki | 10:12 am | July 15, 2016
The health IT executive claims rivals Allscripts and Epic were dead in the water before meaningful use, reveals his company’s parlor trick, and says don't call my technology an EHR.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:35 pm | July 14, 2016
Mobile technology makers and healthcare organizations are facing new privacy and security challenges due to the proliferation of mobile health apps and devices that must be overcome for those devices to achieve their promise.