Featured Report: Status of healthcare security: 'Alarming'

Status of healthcare security: 'Alarming'

Fierce Health IT Feb,19,2014 by:+Susan D. Hall The networks and Internet-connected devices of healthcare organizations--from hospitals to insurance carriers to pharmaceutical companies--are being compromised at an "alarming" frequency, according to analysis of malicious traffic by The SANS Institute. Using data gathered by a live threat intelligence platform between September 2012 and October 2013, it found 49,917 malicious events, 723 malicious source IP addresses and 375 compromised U.S.-based health-related organizations. Read More

Carilion data analytics project uses Epic, IBM tech to predict heart risk

Modern Healthcare Feb,20,2014 by:+Rachel Landen Roanoke, Va., health system Carilion Clinic employed a new technological approach to analyzing doctors' notes that helped it identify 8,500 patients at risk for congestive heart failure. The project, in collaboration with IBM Corp. and Epic Systems Corp., uses IBM's natural-language-processing technology to analyze unstructured data contained in Carilion's Epic electronic medical records, essentially doctors' notes and other sources. Read More

10 healthcare industry trends guiding medtech M&A

10 healthcare industry trends guiding medtech M&A

Med City News Feb,20,2014 by:+Deanna Pogorelc Investment in medical devices fell last year, but medtech companies continued to do deals amongst themselves at a steady pace.In an analysis of last year's medtech M&A transactions, analysts at New York's Walden Group Inc., a strategic healthcare investment banking and consulting firm, identified 10 major forces that are shaping medtech Read More

EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.