First wave of MU Stage 2 (2014 Edition) Draft Test Procedures Released

If you’re in charge of getting your software ready for MU Stage 2, please be sure to keep a regular eye on the 2014 Edition Draft Test Procedures page on the ONC site. Here’s the overview: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has posted the first wave of draft Test [...]

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Guest Article: 8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services

There’s solid demand these days for services like DropBox.com or Box.net that allow easy but secure file sharing to occur with proper privacy restrictions and audit tracking. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there are a few companies, such as FolderGrid, trying to solve the problem of HIPAA-compliant file sharing. What FolderGrid is doing, [...]

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NIST’s Guide to Rating Software Vulnerabilities from Misuse might be helpful for health IT security

A new NIST new guide The Common Misuse Scoring System (CMSS): Metrics for Software Feature Misuse Vulnerabilities, (NISTIR 7864) is available for download. In the health IT and medical device security world we’re often wondering how to classify vulnerabilities so that we can appropriately prioritize them and ensure they get corrected. Here’s how NIST describes [...]

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Telehealth means better care for patients and a new business opportunity for care delivery organizations

The fiscal challenges confronting the healthcare industry around the world requires shifting the delivery of care from expensive centralized settings to lower cost settings while seeking to improve quality and patient experience. Organizations such as hospitals, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and newly created Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are trying to find the right mix of [...]

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Guest Article: 5 more PACS interconnectivity and interoperability issues and their solutions

Most health IT interoperability and connectivity discussions these days center around HL7, CCD, and other structured data interchange. However, the vast majority of data (in terms of size) is shared as images and documents. The DICOM and PACS standards are very successful but given the number of questions I get about them from readers it [...]

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Guest Article: Top 10 Things Hospitals Should Do to Achieve Hard-Dollar ROI with their RTLS Asset Management Solution

There are very few “no brainers” in hospital technology purchases – most of the decisions about what to buy and how to implement what we buy are complex. However, one decision is pretty easy – you have to put in asset management and tracking solutions for obvious reasons. But, how do you make sure that [...]

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Join me at Healthcare Unbound in San Francisco on July 19, 20 to discuss health IT platforms and big data in healthcare

I’ve been invited to speak at Healthcare Unbound (HU), one of the earliest conferences to focus on “connected health”. HU is in its 9th year of promoting the now well accepted ideas of connected health and it’s got a great speaker lineup as well as a terrific audience makeup. If you’ll be at conference or [...]

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Guest Article: Top 5 PACS interconnectivity and interoperability issues and their solutions

Most health IT interoperability and connectivity discussions these days center around HL7, CCD, and other structured data interchange. However, the vast majority of data (in terms of size) is shared as images and documents. The DICOM and PACS standards are very successful but given the number of questions I get about them from readers it [...]

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What healthcare can learn from the new Department of Defense (DoD) Mobility Device Strategy

The Department of Defense (DoD) recently released their mobile device strategy that talks about how to enable the use of mobile devices in defense applications. The DoD ‘s requirements around security and reliability for mobile apps and devices are just as stringent as those that should be implemented in healthcare so there’s probably a lot [...]

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Check out these videos if you’re looking for healthcare IT jobs

The nice folks at HealthAdministrationDegrees.com recently interviewed me about my thoughts on healthcare IT and how to get jobs in the industry. The following questions came up: How did you get started blogging, and what was the goal behind your blog the Healthcare IT Guy? How can someone get started working in healthcare IT? How important [...]

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