Browsed by
Month: February 2019

Infrastructure, Standards, Metrics Can Pave Way for Interoperability

Infrastructure, Standards, Metrics Can Pave Way for Interoperability

February 27, 2019 Interoperability across the healthcare system is badly needed and also obtainable for providers and other stakeholders, according to a new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank, and the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of senior healthcare leaders.  Less clear is how all of the players can actually attain the goal of smooth, seamless, secure health information sharing across disparate systems.  The report puts forth some concrete ideas. The two groups stated that…

Read More Read More

Survey Shows Strengths, Gaps in Healthcare Cybersecurity

Survey Shows Strengths, Gaps in Healthcare Cybersecurity

February 20, 2019 Though healthcare organizations appear to be devoting a greater proportion of financial resources to securing their information systems from unwanted intrusion, significant cybersecurity gaps persist in important areas, according to the Health Information Management Systems Society’s 2019 (HIMSS) Cybersecurity Survey. Healthcare cybersecurity practices are “moving in the right direction with some degree of uniformity,” according to the survey report, released during HIMSS 2019 in Orlando. Still, despite the progress, “budgets allocated to cybersecurity are still quite small…

Read More Read More