Featured Report: 8 mistakes to avoid when securing cloud services

Med City News
Aug,03, 2012
By: Shahid Shah
There’s solid demand these days for services like DropBox.com or Box.net that allow easy but secure file sharing to occur with proper privacy restrictions and audit tracking. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there are a few companies, such as FolderGrid, trying to solve the problem of HIPAA-compliant file sharing. What FolderGrid is doing, though, is quite unique in healthcare ’ creating infrastructure software for other health IT developers to build on top of. I reached out to Eric Simmerman, CTO at FolderGrid as well as head of IT and Chief Security Officer at Pascal Metrics, a Patient Safety Organization (PSO). I asked Eric to give us some lessons he’s learned and what mistakes we should avoid while both building and evaluating cloud services for the healthcare marketplace. Here’s what Eric wrote back. In the race to avail yourself of the many benefits of cloud computing, don’t leave behind security as you pursue the convenience of ubiquitous availability. It’s tempting to equate newer technology and services with better fundamentals. But as recent headlines have demonstrated even the most established firms have been caught using inadequate and in some cases negligent practices when securing their customers’ sensitive data.
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Web-Based Hospital Collaborative Helped Improve Care Quality
Aug,02,2012
A Web-based quality improvement effort helped about 90% of participating hospital teams improve certain quality outcomes, according to an announcement by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, FierceHealthcare reports (Caramenico, FierceHealthcare, 8/1).
Project Details
The project -- which is funded by RWJF and supported by experts at George Washington University -- is part of Aligning Forces for Quality, a RWJF initiative designed to improve health care quality in 16 targeted communities across the country (RWJF release, 7/31). The 150 hospitals participating in the project attended monthly webinars in which industry experts offered advice and members shared quality improvement strategies. The collaborative also provided participating health care providers with Web-based reports on quality care data
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MobiHealthNews
Can Mango Health succeed where others have failed?
Aug,02,2012
By: Brian Dolan
This week a new San Francisco-based startup, Mango Health, which is developing a medication adherence app with social gaming elements, announced that it had scooped up $1.45 million in venture funding. Investors include Floodgate Fund, First Round Capital, Steve Anderson with Baseline Ventures, Zynga co-founder and CEO Mark Pincus and Square COO Keith Rabois, according to GigaOM. A handful of tech news sites greeted the arrival of Mango Health with breathless, hyperbolic headlines: “Show Mango Health your meds and the iPhone app may save your life,” wrote one, and “Mango Health brings accountability to mobile health” another inexplicably declared.
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HealthDataManagement
Hartford Breach Affecting 9,558 Includes Social Security Numbers
Aug, 01, 2012
By: Joseph Goedert
“On June 26, 2012, the leadership teams of Hartford Hospital and VNA HealthCare learned that an unencrypted laptop computer containing personal information of some of their patients was stolen from the home of an employee of a firm called Greenplum, which is a subsidiary of one of our vendors, EMC Corp. Greenplum was performing data analysis for EMC on our behalf as part of a quality improvement project related to hospital readmissions. “The Greenplum employee whose company laptop was stolen immediately reported the theft to the local police department, which filed a report and investigated the crime. EMC promptly began an investigation and informed us of the theft. We have no evidence to suggest that any personal information has been misused as a result of this incident.
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