Featured Healthcare Content
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IoT Causes New Wave Of Healthcare Cybersecurity Concerns
3/22/2016
The Internet of Things (IoT), or Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) as it’s known within the healthcare industry, is becoming a tangible reality. As it does, its running head long into a healthcare environment that is functioning within an increasingly hostile cybersecurity environment.
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Your Clients May Soon Be Able To Experiment More With Telehealth
3/11/2016
Even if your clients have been interested in implementing telehealth initiatives and technology, they’ve probably been held back for multiple reasons — one of the most pressing being a reimbursement environment that discourages providers from engaging in remote medical practices. According to some recent news from Congress, though, this might soon be changing.
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Report Analyzes Technology’s Impact On Patient Engagement
3/4/2016
A Markets and Markets report offers a qualitative assessment of the technology markets around patient engagement. While the concept of patient engagement isn’t new, the discussion of exactly what technology enables and drives it is just emerging.
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Health IT Interoperability Standards Released By ONC
2/2/2016
Healthcare is charging into interoperability, and the Office of the National Coordinatory for Health IT (ONC) has released guidance to smooth things along.
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Online Doctor Visit App Is Most Downloaded
1/20/2016
Mobile apps are becoming commonplace in the healthcare landscape and continually proving their value in both monetary savings and improved patient care.
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Data Breach At Arnett Healthcare Affects 30K Patients
1/15/2016
In a change of pace from the larger incidents of 2015, a missing storage device is the root of one of the most recent healthcare data breaches.
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AT&T Advances Connected Health With Texas “Innovation Center”
1/14/2016
This year is continuing to shape up as the year of connected health and some recent moves by AT&T in conjunction with a new partner confirms that.
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Why You Should Share The 2015 Data Breach Tally With Your Healthcare IT Clients
1/12/2016
The numbers are in on the Office Of Civil Rights’ tracking of healthcare data breaches (via Forbes) and as expected, they aren’t pretty.
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Top Healthcare Tech And Market Predictions For 2016
1/8/2016
Here are technologies healthcare IT VARs might want to keep on their radars in 2016.
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Healthcare Shows High Risk From Brute Force Attacks According To Industry Report
12/28/2015
According to an Alert Logic report, 87 percent of organizations are using cloud infrastructure. Beyond that, analysts are predicting that spending for cloud computing will cross $200 billion in 2016. All this amounts to hackers having a larger “attack surface” through which they can gain access to data — something it’s essential that your clients understand, especially in relation to the threats that are particular to healthcare.