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Electronic Health Records Are Becoming a Hot Investment Play — Again

Another ... determine if a health-care provider was demonstrating “meaningful use” of electronic records and deserved payment. A few big companies figured out how to efficiently check those boxes. “It ... read more

Billing Vendor Phishing Attack Breaches Data of Multiple Providers

May 09, 2019 - Billing vendor OS ... discovered the hack 11 days later on March 26 and secured the attack soon after. READ MORE: Mailing Error for Inmediata, While Reporting Health Data Breach ... read more

The Cybersecurity 202: Federal agencies are spending millions to hack into locked phones

And the federal spending spree on hacking tools offers yet another suggestion that law enforcement may be finding ways around encryption without tech companies’ help. The American Civil Liberties ... read more

Is It Happening? Electronic Health Record Vendors Take Steps Toward Interoperability

(In another milestone, Epic will connect its own network of EHRs with Surescripts, the electronic prescription company). Preoccupied with market share, vendors have largely resisted making their ... read more

EHR/PHR Vendor MIE Gets Hacked

Electronic health records vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its personal ... Also See: Taking a New Look at Data Security Social Engineering The hack of NoMoreClipboard, also launched on May ... read more

Two and a half years later, DHS still hasn’t performed audits to see if votes were hacked in 2016

In Georgia, which has faced a firestorm of criticism over lack of election security and conflicts of interest, state election officials claimed that the DHS itself tried to hack ... electronic (DRE) ... read more

Apple's Health Record API released to third-party developers; is it safe?

Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week released an API that allows developers and researchers to create applications that connect to Health Records, a feature released with iOS 11.3 ... read more

MedStar hack shows risks that come with electronic health records

The MedStar hack is a reminder that for all their benefits, electronic hospital records have ... creating another vulnerability in hospital networks. In some cases, security fixes to the devices can ... read more

Electronic health records are still waiting to be transformed

Fewer than one in three hospitals can functionally share and use patient information received from another provider ... shared contracting requirements with technology vendors. Second, electronic ... read more

Blockchain, Bitcoin And The Electronic Health Record

Therefore, if someone were to hack ... electronic health record worthy of 21st-century patient care. As patients, we deserve to have our medical information available wherever we go for our care. And ... read more

It Is Time to Fix the Electronic Health Records Boondoggle

When the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments meet on May 14 to discuss interoperable electronic health ... due to hospitals withholding health records and vendor gag clauses that prevent ... read more

The Top Ten Electronic Medical Record Vendors

Who are the leading healthcare IT vendors in the U.S ... a table of the ten largest makers of electronic medical records (although the magazine, for whatever reason, insists on calling them EHRs, or ... read more