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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Providers put patient safety as #1.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015. Frost & Sullivan recognized the Inovalon ONE Platform with the 2023 North American Product Leadership Award.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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Aledade Secures $260 Million Series F Financing Round to Expand and Enhance Services for its Nationwide Network of Primary Care Practices

Healthcare IT Today

Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston (now Mass General Brigham). He also served as the United States National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011. Previously, he was the Samuel O.

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Can Healthcare Optimize Its Human Resources and Redefine Care Delivery in the Process?

Healthcare IT Today

He founded the company in 2015 and remains passionate about empowering care teams with the tools they need to help people age in place. Ashish previously served as CTO at Medicity, the market leader for vendor-neutral Health Information Exchange solutions (acquired by Aetna in 2011).

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It takes a Tribe: A new model of type 1 diabetes care in Australia

Insulin Nation

With a focus on building community, peer-led information exchange, creative health programs, and social support, the Family Centre does diabetes differently and represents a new model of care for people with type 1 diabetes. More than a diabetic medical facility.

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Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Addiction and mental health provider Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation chose the Xealth digital therapeutics platform and integrated it with its Oracle Cerner EHR, which has been in place since 2015.

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