- Healthcare cybersecurity primer outlines defensive strategies (fiercehealthit.com)
A new primer on cyber-security outlines the challenges that healthcare organizations face and steps they can take to defend themselves against cyber-attacks...Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange's "Perspectives on Cybersecurity in Healthcare" covers three prime areas of cybersecurity: the lifecycle of cyberattacks and defense; the anatomy of an attack; and building a culture of prevention.
- 5 health IT trends set to shake up industry (healthcareitnews.com)
'Patients can actually begin to care for themselves – relieve the burden of the delivery system and get a better result' For those healthcare providers still resistant to technology, you've got a problem on your hands: You're going to be left behind. This is where healthcare it going – with or without you.
- A medical gold mine, buried underneath layers of red tape (fortune.com)
Health care has certainly been a laggard, largely because of data privacy rules…..cloud computing has become more broadly accessible, offering an opportunity for performance improvement across a range of industries.
- Hospital employee indicted for fraud after swiping data of 12K (healthcareitnews.com)
A former employee at a major New York health system has been indicted, along with seven others, for stealing personal data of 12,000 patients, enabling more than $50,000 in fraud....swiping patient data and supplying it to an identity theft ring.
- 100 days to ICD-10: Where the industry stands (fiercehealthit.com)
Bills call for grace periods; Survey finds testing lagging.The implementation deadline for ICD-10 is only 100 days away, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to push for transition periods or an outright ban of the code set while surveys reveal that participation in testing still lags.
- China Jo-Jo Drugstores Becomes the First Hangzhou Pharmacy to Be Launched on Tencent’s WeChat Platform (pharmacychoice.com)
China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc.,.. pharmaceutical and health care products through its online and retail pharmacies, announced today that Hangzhou Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd… has become the first… to launch stores on Tencent's WeChat platform, China's dominant mobile messaging app and social network with over 500 million active users.
- Mobile’s role in healthcare is still experimental (mmm-online.com)
…mobile technology in healthcare is still widely considered experimental, but increasingly sophisticated mobile apps and wearable technologies are believed to be promising new tools that will drive behavior change and improve people's health.
- Medicare Slow To Adopt Telemedicine Due To Cost Concerns (khn.org)
...she turned on her computer …. She spoke to a physician, who used her computer’s camera to peer into her mouth and who then sent a prescription to her pharmacy. Nearly 20 years after such videoconferencing technology has been available for health services, fewer than 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries use it.
- Team-Based Care Reduces Inappropriate Prescribing for Older Patients (pharmacytimes.com)
Clinical pharmacists included in team-based interventions can reduce the proportion of potentially inappropriate medications dispensed to elderly patients in the emergency department ...Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged… integrated provider education, electronic medical record-embedded pharmacy order sets, and peer feedback and benchmarking into the care model.
- EXTREME essentials for interoperability (healthcareitnews.com)
Defining use cases for open EHRs. two health IT researchers put forth five use cases that help define what an "open" electronic health record should really look like….meant to help five distinct types of people: clinicians; researchers; administrators; software developers; and patients.