HIT Data

This week in health IT news, Tom Andriola, vice president and CIO for the University of California System and UC Health, told healthcare CIOs that IT is increasingly influencing their…

As community hospitals and community health centers, and other smaller healthcare organizations look to leverage Health IT solutions to deliver better patient outcomes, they face challenges accessing state of the…

HIMSS 2018 is nearly here. While each year’s event is important in its own right, this year’s event according to HIMSS’s new president Harold Wolf III will assume a vital…

For healthcare providers, the process of getting paid is still one of the more time consuming practices in healthcare, especially for those using legacy health IT systems and adjudication engines.…

This week in health IT news, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked into the current state of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)’s progress in health IT and came up…

The most valuable asset without a doubt for healthcare organizations is patient data. The recent global WannaCry malware outbreak, one of the largest healthcare security threats on record, wreaked havoc…

There is no doubt that mutual aid – the ability to connect resources across all areas of emergency response and jurisdictional boundaries – is of utmost importance when it comes…

The countdown to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here, with enforcement taking place next year, on 25 May 2018. The EU GDPR is arguably the most important…

Using “art” and “interpreting healthcare data” in the same sentence may seem as sensible as comparing an octopus to a bicycle. Isn’t data supposed to be objective? So how and…

There is no doubt modern IT infrastructures are a critical component for pharmaceuticals companies to thrive in this competitive digital age. Without a flexible, agile infrastructure, they aren’t able to…