Compliance & Legal
Connected Health
Diagnosis and treatment of disease and antibiotic-resistant bacteria is complex and challenging for small hospitals, who could care for patients with remote help from top-tier infectious disease experts.
Healthcare systems need to collaborate on defense and rely on AI and machine learning to respond to new threats, study finds.
Healthcare attorney Matt Fisher says HIPAA doesn’t need to change much, although it might need some tinkering around the edges.
Leavitt Partners Principal Ryan Howells discusses work with the CARIN Alliance using the HIPAA Individual Right of Access to extract data into an app and then redirect that information back into the HIPAA workflow.
A new security report finds the average institution leaves terabytes of sensitive information exposed to unauthorized parties.
Printers present a unique cybersecurity threat, and the provider organization was serious about protecting them and staying in compliance with HIPAA. It also was serious about ROI.
Providers there also don't have to wait 28 days for access to Epic and other systems, and now receive full rights within two days.
Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, says the HITECH Act may have pushed forward the digitization of the healthcare system, but it also changed what can go wrong from a legal compliance perspective by an order of magnitude.
Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.