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The risks and rewards of IoT in healthcare
The Internet of Things (IoT) is taking the industries of the world by storm, and the healthcare sector is no exception. With 101 million IoT devices worldwide, the healthcare industry is becoming more connected by the day, and this figure is expected to increase by over 62% by 2020. As is always the case with new technology, the growing presence of IoT in the healthcare industry poses several threats to both patients and providers - but do the rewards outweigh the risks? Firstly, let's explore some of the key benefits that IOT can bring to healthcare:
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The Technology Is in Place – It’s People and Practical Implementation That Will Enable Change Outlined by Dame Fiona Caldicott and CQC
In response to the recommendations by the CQC and Dame Fiona Caldicott, Jacinta Ni Suaird, Product Director at IMS MAXIMS said: “The CQC and Dame Fiona Caldicott recommendations provide welcomed guidance in the use and safeguarding of patient’s data, which can lay the foundations for restoring public trust in this area. The recommendations call for health and care organisations to show greater leadership around data security, with a strong emphasis on providers...
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The Words Healthcare CIOs Don't Want To Hear
No matter what your job, there are certain phrases – whether said by bosses, colleagues or clients – that are just plain unwelcome: words that foretell frustration and added workload at best, panic and red-alert crisis response at worst.
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This Little-Known Firm Is Getting Rich Off Your Medical Data
You may never have heard of it, but IMS Health knows an awful lot about your medical history. A global company based in Danbury, Connecticut, IMS IMS 1.58% buys bulk data from pharmacy chains such as CVS CVS 0.72% , doctor’s electronic record systems such as Allscripts, claims from insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield and from others who handle your health information...
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Thousands Of NFL Players' Medical Records Stolen From Skins Trainer
In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would encompass the vast majority of NFL players, and for them, it’s a worrying breach of privacy; for the NFL, it’s potentially a costly violation of medical privacy laws.Last month the league alerted the players’ union to the theft...
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TIM Review’s Evolution from Ottawa Journal to International Resource
From its humble beginnings as the Open Source Business Resource to its status today as an internationally acclaimed journal for academics and businesspeople alike, the Technology Innovation Management Review has made its name on staying ahead of the curve. Tony Bailetti, director of Carleton University’s TIM program, launched the journal back in 2007. At the time, it was an experiment to uncover how business owners might make use of open-source applications...
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Too Soon to Tell If EHRs Provide Good ROI
There’s been a lot of hoopla about the role of electronic health records in patient safety, Meaningful Use, data sharing and security. But the elephant in the room is always "do EHRs provide a good return on investment? Will EHR users make more money?" It seems, based on recent research, that the answer might be yes. First, there’s the study that EHRs are adept at increasing a provider’s charge capture. By using their EHR’s automation and enhanced coding capability, pediatric primary care physicians saw an $11.49 increase on average, per-patient collections and an $11.09 increase on average, per-patient charges, as well as an improvement in collection ratios...
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US Firms Worry Edward Snowden Is Wrecking Their Business, But The Patriot Act Was Already Doing That
Shortly after a meeting of an EU-sponsored program to push European cloud-computing capabilities in Estonia last month, a high-ranking EC official noted that the biggest losers from Edward Snowden’s revelation about US surveillance would be US businesses: Read More »
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VA Data Exchange Practices Lack Security
Veterans Affairs Department medical centers are not effectively or securely sharing data with research and university facilities, according to an Oct. 23 VA office of inspector general report (.pdf). Read More »
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VA Deploying mHealth Apps To Give Veterans Quicker, Easier Data Access
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to debut the first two of several mHealth apps providing veterans easier and quicker access to healthcare data via smartphones and tablets sometime early this fall...
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VA Secretary to Congress: We Don't Know What the Cerner EHR Will Cost
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD, told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday he does not yet know the cost for the new Cerner electronic health record that the VA plans to purchase. While Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said he supports the decision to replace the VA’s existing Vista EHR, he worried the cost was not part of the 2018 budget. “I understand you don’t want to just pick a number,” Schatz told Shulkin. “But it’s not zero. And we’re about to mark this bill up and it’s difficult to do a markup when, lacking information, we’re expected to sort of book it at zero”...
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White Hat Hackers Hit 12 American Hospitals To Prove Patient Life 'Extremely Vulnerable'
A two-year research project into the security of 12 hospitals and a variety of medical technologies has concluded that patient health is “extremely vulnerable” to digital attacks. The report, shown to FORBES ahead of publication today, comes from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a San Diego-based security outfit that formed out of Johns Hopkins more than a decade ago...
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White House Says Agencies Slowly Meeting Open Data Milestones
Many agencies have created new groups to address key provisions in the open data executive order and policy put out by the White House seven months ago. Read More »
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Why Hospital Data Centers Are Moving to the Cloud
As hospital data center infrastructures age and resources shrink, IT leaders are increasingly looking to the cloud to meet their storage needs. Not only is it cheaper than investing in upgrades and replacements of existing hardware and software, but it can add a level of security, especially in disaster-prone areas. The trend has some wondering if hospitals will still have physical data centers in the future or whether they will go the way of the dinosaurs.
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Why You Must Secure Your Website with TLS
Security isn’t an option on today’s websites. It’s a necessity. Google confers on sites that use HTTPS a higher search ranking. And who doesn’t want a higher PageRank? But, wait there’s even more reason to lock down your site. Google will soon start marking websites that don’t use HTTPS first as insecure, then as broken. You so don’t want to go there...
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