Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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EMR-based solutions help decrease unnecessary lab testing

Boston Medical Center reduced the number of patients who received unnecessary diagnostic testing after implementing new recommendations into its electronic medical record (EMR) system.

October 19, 2018
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FDA, DHS form partnership to address medical device cybersecurity

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are joining forces to address cybersecurity for medical devices.

October 19, 2018

North Carolina hospital warns patients after phishing attack

A North Carolina-based hospital is issuing notices to patients following a phishing attack that accessed several employee email accounts.

October 18, 2018
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Pew: EHR reporting program should focus on safety, usability

Pew Charitable Trusts is asking the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology to incorporate safety-related data into its reporting criteria for usability in its new electronic health records (EHR) reporting program.

October 18, 2018

Anthem to pay record-breaking $16 million settlement for health data breach

Anthem, Inc. will pay a record $16 million to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after a data breach exposed the electronic protected health information of nearly 79 million people.

October 16, 2018

Minnesota Department of Human Services issues notice to residents after data breach

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) issued a notice to thousands of residents after a data breach may have exposed their personal health information.

October 12, 2018

Mayo Clinic completes Epic EHR rollout

Mayo Clinic has completed its implementation of the Epic electronic health record (EHR) system at all of its locations.

October 10, 2018

California court rules lawsuit over breach of HIV patient records can move forward

A California court has ruled that a class-action lawsuit filed against a program after a breach exposed the medical records of 93 people living with HIV can move forward.

October 9, 2018

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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