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Think you've seen a lot of intrusion attempts and malware at your hospital? The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which operates some 1,700 hospitals and healthcare facilities, reported more than 235 million blocked intrusion attempts just for the month of August.
Mark Dill, director of information security at the Cleveland Clinic, talks about keeping data secure at one of the best known academic medical centers in the world, increasing security threats and why risk analysis is so critical.
The trick is in helping people make their own decisions without being overly prescriptive.
Patients are growing weary of having to carry their records from one provider to the next and many are evaluating whether or not doctors use technologies to communicate with them when choosing a new physician.
As part of the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, HHS will dole out $685 million more to help health networks, group practices and other providers drive IT-enabled care coordination, quality improvement and cost reduction.
A group of individuals has slapped two D.C. hospitals with a class action lawsuit, alleging that their charges for requesting medical records -- ranging from $1,168 to $2,500 -- violate state and federal regulations.
Joining elite company, Pennsylvania's Reading Health System is the latest provider to earn Stage 7 distinction from HIMSS Analytics, ascending to the top of the EMR Adoption Model.
Refrain from finalizing Stage 3 meaningful use, implored 100 members of Congress in a September 28 letter to Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
We highlight six of the most talked about new products on display and available for demo at the 2015 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit.
Every year HIMSS calls on Congress with requests specific to advancing health IT. We check in to see what happened since 2014.