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By Heather Landi for Healthcare Informatics While lost and theft of employee devices accounted for the majority (68 percent) of healthcare data breaches in 2014, last year was a different story, with 98 percent of breaches due to hacking and IT-related incidents, according to a Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report. The report cites a series of…
By the Editors of HCI for Healthcare Informatics Not surprisingly, it was another big year in the world of health IT, mixed with positive developments and unsettling trends. Last week, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland looked at the seven significant things we learned this year, and social media manager Megan Combs parsed through the analytics and found…
By John Commins for HealthLeaders Media A drop in the percentage of IT budgets that is directed toward electronic health records systems signals a shift in focus. Now it’s on broader business problems and on operational efficiencies, research suggests. Hospital health information technology budgets are still growing, but the focus has shifted from meaningful use benchmarks…
By Akanksha Jayanthi and Max Green for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review January 15, 2016 While CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt’s announcement of the end of meaningful use was met with a collective sigh of relief from the healthcare industry, questions, concerns and expectations regarding the future remain. Though frustrating, many IT leaders do…
By Jennifer B. Cohen, Esq. for Physicians News Digest In today’s health care environment, even the smallest practices have integrated the use of mobile devices into their daily practices; recordkeeping using laptops, tablets, and even cell phones has become a norm, rather than an exception. This is no surprise, given the portability and convenience of using…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News Hospital IT departments have a lot on their proverbial plates these days, as they work to help their health systems manage the minutia of meaningful use attestations, deal with the nuts and bolts of the ICD-10 changeover (so far, so good!) and strengthen defenses against data security threats that…
By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News Ransomware attacks and tools are on the rise and perhaps more so than has been widely understood thus far. The gist: Hackers crack into a network via malicious URLs or malware, find data they can encrypt with relatively low-cost tools, and then demand either money or Bitcoins to return it.…
By Dr. Jon Elion for ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc. In my blog entry of July 8, 2015, I summarized some of the history of the first international classification of diseases, a process that started in 1853 and was finally approved in 1893. While this was not officially called “ICD-1”, it was in fact the first international…
Sharing documentation best practices is a win-win for healthcare stakeholders. By Bonnie Bakal for Advanced Healthcare for Health Information Professionals One of my all-time favorite song lyrics is from Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up and goes: “I am strong when I am on your shoulders, You raise me up to more than I can…
Written by John Smithwick for Healthcare Intelligence Network Getting patients diagnosed correctly and treated appropriately depends on providers gathering both quantitative data, which is typically structured, and qualitative data, which is typically unstructured. When comparing both types of data, it’s more challenging to manage and derive value from unstructured data. Structured data is that which…