Mike Miliard

The community health network will use the technology to help drive better outcomes, reduce costs and make the most of its quality incentives.

Having long been disappointed in the level of attention paid to that EHR, small hospital clients are hopeful Allscripts will make the investments necessary to improve it.

A risk assessment can be the foundation for budgeting and priorities for the department.

Doctella gives hospitals, practices and insurers templates to create customized apps that might otherwise cost more than $500,000 and require teams of developers.

Thousands of people in Florida and Texas have made use of remote consults offered by Nemours and others.

By giving patients control over their data, the tech could enable better privacy protections and efficiency for information exchange.

APIs bring third-party analytics tools into the Epic platform, helping hospitals get more out of EHR investments, hospital CIO says.

Manufacturers must also work to continually assess new cyber risks to the medical devices on the market.

Matt Fisher, partner and chair of the health law group at Mirick O'Connell, says hospitals need to  know the facts about HIPAA compliance (it does not gurantee security), risk analysis (it shouldn't necessarily be done alone), business associate agreements (read them, don't just sign them) and cyber insurance (it's not a panacea).

Barry Herrin, principal at Herrin Health Law, says spending more money on security technology will only accomplish diminishing returns. Instead, hospitals should take a broader view of people and processes, implementing risk management frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53 and partnering with external threat groups such as InfoGuard and the FBI.