Compliance & Legal

Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Allscripts have all certified modules for meaningful use since mid-July.

Of medical residents polled, all of them had shared authorized credentials at one time or another.

Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb named nine groups from tech, device manufacturers for the program at the AdvaMed MedTech Conference on Tuesday.

Agnesian Healthcare claims issues in Cerner’s billing software caused losses and damaged hospital’s reputation; Cerner disagrees.

New criteria for vendors are meant to ease burdens and ultimately pass cost-savings down to the hospitals and systems that buy electronic health record software, Donald Rucker says.

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).

(SPONSORED) Caleb Barlow, vice president of threat intelligence at IBM Security, says sometimes a hospital's response (or lack thereof) to a data breach can be as damaging as the breach itself.

The academic medical center cites years of misfiring alerts and wireless monitoring challenges that it says taxed its staff and put patient safety at risk.

The insurance company settled with 33 states for failing to patch a vulnerability that allowed a hacker to gain access to its system.

A new alliance of IT and security professionals wants to promote best practices and spread awareness of a standard definition.