Health IT Briefing March 25-29

Healthcare’s 5 Most Exploitable Cyberattack Vectors And How To Secure Them Healthcare organizations are amongst the most vulnerable operations for security attacks.  Not only are they a profitable target for attackers with highly critical information on the...

Health IT Briefing March 18-22

Implementation best practices: Getting healthcare analytics right Four analytic experts offer important suggestions to CIOs on how to successfully implement data and analytics in their provider organizations.  Some of the key tips they shared included that it’s...

Health IT Briefing March 11-15

MedPAC to call for national Medicare ED coding approach The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is to put together official recommendations to HHS since there isn’t any standard guidelines at the moment resulting in hospitals developing their own...

Health IT Briefing March 4-8

Misconfigured database leads to major data breach at UW Medicine Seattle-based UW Medicine is announcing close to 1 million patients of a database configuration error that has exposed their protected health information on the internet for several weeks.  The files...

Health IT Briefing Feb.25-March 1

Data Points: Data exchange still a struggle 10 years after HITECH Act February marks the 10th anniversary of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act being signed into law. Although there has been much progress, the industry has yet to...