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.

If youre anything like me, youre looking forward to the beginning of daylight savings time this month. Even though we lose an hour of sleep, the time change somehow makes it feel like there are more hours in the day.

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.

Managing the wide-ranging IT systems in use by most healthcare organizations requires qualified, knowledgeable and experienced IT staff. IT leaders share their advice and creative efforts for training and retaining.

Three vendors dominate the market for medical device integration systems (MDIS). All score high in customer-satisfaction surveying, and none stands head over shoulders above the other two in overall care-improvement and cost-reduction performance.

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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