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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” Tell us what you think.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this installment, you will share in expertise from: Andy Crowder, chief information and analytics officer at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois. Making digital connection the new normal.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. phone call, 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) immediately made a team of engineers available to us. It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help

Healthcare IT Today

The mission of a SOC is to protect valuable customer/client data, protected health information, and intellectual property, achieved primarily through the prioritization, collection, and processing of security logs. What Should Be Included in a SOC?

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.