Phish Stories: Big, Bad, and Sadly, True
I thought I’d heard it all and then I got into the IT business. The phish stories I hear about now are sadly, even crazier.
And the results are in: The INFRAM? It works!
The INFRAM, a follow-up to the industry-leading EMRAM certification process (EMRAM creates standards for EHR adoption), measures infrastructure stability and manageability in the areas of…
The Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Healthcare
Does anyone really know what time it is? “I’m not recommending it for most people as anything other than just a novelty,” said Ethan Weiss, a University of California, San Francisco cardiologist. Dr. Weiss was quoted in a recent review of the new Apple Watch Series 4 by the New York Times. That raises some…
Falling Short: Predictive Analytics and Healthcare Security
VertitechIT Executive Project Officer and IT security/HIPAA compliance consultant Teresa Grogan says many healthcare institutions are employing a “set it and forget it” mentality when implementing predictive analytics technology to fight cyber threats. She says that practice is a shortcut that will come back to haunt them. In an interview with Healthcare Info Security, Terry…
A Virtualized Teleradiology Solution for Less Than $500 a Month? Yup.
A tornado rips through a rural community and the local hospital is overwhelmed with injured residents. A ten-car pile up in the middle of the night on a major highway stretches the resources of emergency doctors to diagnose and treat the victims. The use of teleradiology services to facilitate image reading during off-hours and provide…
Violations and Breaches: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
Healthcare organizations will spend more money on IT security in 2018 than ever before. But the statistics suggest these cybersecurity warriors may be taking one step forward and two steps back. Comparing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA violation data for calendar year 2017 versus unofficial tallies year to date, it would appear…
IoMT: Keep Up or Clean Up
When your smart thermostat fails, your home may get a little overheated. The breach of a security camera might result in a break in or a stolen package off the front porch. But failure of an Internet-connected heart monitor or the hacking of a device configured to remind an elderly patient to take their hypertension…
Is This Apple Good For Your Health?
What is it with tech companies who know virtually nothing about healthcare (GoogleHealth and Microsoft HealthVault were awesome weren’t they?) who suddenly think they can build a better mousetrap? What makes them feel that they can take a seemingly carefree drive down an already well-travelled road littered with industry and government created potholes (interoperability and…
Baseball and Big Data
Can healthcare learn something from the national pastime? As a CMO and former CMIO, I’ve spent the better part of my professional life looking at numbers and trying to wrestle with the enigma that has come to be known as Population Health. As a 2017 article in HealthIT Analytics so aptly titled it, “population health…
VertitechIT CMO Puts Data Analytics and the National Pastime in the Spotlight
Dr. Neil Kudler, VertitechIT’s Chief Medical Officer and resident big data guru, is a huge baseball fan (OK, he roots for the Mets so he’s more of a huge baseball team masochist!). It was only a matter of time before Neil made the connection between the use of data analytics in baseball (i.e. “Moneyball) and…