Business associates (BAs) are a huge area of concern when it comes to healthcare data privacy and security. If you look at the statistics, there were nearly 400 healthcare data breaches in the last two years and almost half are due to BAs. But, that half accounts for more than 75 percent of all records involved, said Mac McMillan, CEO of Austin, Texas-based health IT security firm CynergisTek, and co-chair of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Privacy and Security Policy Task Force.

Have you ever worked on a truly high-performing team? Most of us have had this experience in either our professional or personal lives.

With more and more medical devices in use, providers want to transmit data from those devices directly into EHRs. However, CMIOs and clinical engineers face numerous challenges in reaching that goal.

E-prescribing offers benefits that can specifically help with the care and costs of chronically ill patients, and tech-savvy patients and providers are driving increased use.

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There is a Charlton Heston quote I have always remembered: The secret to a great marriage is a great husband. I like telling my wife I have followed his advice. What is more difficult to unravel is what makes great employers and employees in health IT.

Mach 7 Technologies (Booth 1276), a developer of clinical image management systems, is introducing Keystone Suite, an enterprise clinical imaging platform (ECIP), at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas Feb. 20-24.

The American Cancer Society, in an effort to reduce future projected cancers from diagnostic imaging procedures, outlined some limitations and enhancements to current appropriateness criteria used for making decisions about imaging and also offered some CT exam recommendations for clinicians in an article published online Feb. 3 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.