- 3 Massachusetts hospitals fined nearly $1 million by OCR for HIPAA violations
Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital let ABC film a documentary on site without obtaining patient authorization. ... read more - Employee error exposed data of 16,000 Blue Cross patients online for 3 months
An employee uploaded a file containing member information to a public-facing website in April, but officials did not discover the error until July. ... read more - Mercy Health invests in cloud PACS, teleradiology company NucleusHealth
Cincinnati-based Mercy Health announced this week that it is investing in San Diego-based NucleusHealth, developer of cloud-hosted picture archiving communications systems and teleradiology services. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Mercy Health implemented the technology this past year, and apparently liked it so much that it's decided to become a minority investor in the company. ... read more - Consumerism focus and global market insights are key to innovation
When developing, funding, scaling and evolving innovation projects, it's key to gain insights from around the world – and to keep consumer top of mind, HIMSS innovation expert Ian Hoffberg says. ... read more - What if healthcare is not broken? And what if we’re actually winning the opioid battle?
Dave Chase puts forth those contrarian viewpoints in his new book, and predicts that millennials will redirect the future of healthcare – which is a good thing. ... read more - Trump’s tariff threats on China could hit hospital IT shops
President Trump on Wednesday threatened to add new import taxes on an additional $257 billion of Chinese goods to the $200 billion established on Monday. This was in response to China on Tuesday announcing plans to impose new tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. exports. ... read more - How’s your cybersecurity posture? Answer these 5 crucial security questions
Drafted by the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, the guidance provides insight into preventing phishing attacks, bolstering third-party management and other security threats. ... read more - NHS unveils new developer programs to spark innovation for patients
The National Health Service in England announced two new innovator programs to accelerate the use of digital health tools that benefit patients and remove barriers slowing adoption of innovation in the NHS. Part of a wider effort led by NHS England and the Academic Health Science Networks, NHS England says innovations eligible for the program have to be used in at least three NHS sites and demonstrate the potential for a return on investment within a year of deployment. ... read more - Interoperability needs an architecture in addition to APIs, HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling says
And there’s already one in the JASON Report from 2014 that was eclipsed by the industry’s excitement about open APIs. ... read more - 3 key aspects of a killer app for healthcare
HIMSS Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Steve Wretling says developers need to build the experience healthcare hasn’t had yet. ... read more
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