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The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITA) announced that it is building a Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center (Threat Center) where organizations can report incidents and get help remediating electronic medical security issues.

This is a good idea. Currently, there is really no Threat Center-type facility for the healthcare data profession to turn to. HITA, a part of HITRUST, is a good front group for this type of technology as well, being lead by most of the major names in the medical technology industry, including Kaiser Permanente, Cisco, and WellPoint.

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  • By medefile Submitted on May 4th, 2012

In a recent column on Health Data Management, Greg Gillespie  talks about the over-use of the world “empowerment” in health records technologies and online services in general. He rightly points out that the word is often used to describe something that is not exactly empowering, just convenient, either for the consumer or for the company with the product.

He makes a very good point. Quite often, internet banking services will describe their services as “empowering” when what their services really are is just convenient. What is often not included in their ìempowermentî offers is increased customer service.

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  • By Kevin Hauser Submitted on February 27th, 2012

The Redspin consulting firm released a report that includes some shocking information about patient health record data breaches this past year. The report highlights one thing that seems certain: the rush to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems at hospitals, clinics, and health care contractors is coming at the price of security for those records.

As we’ve outlined before here at MedeFile and as I will continue to say, security is not only the most important factor in any record keeping system that involves health records that can be identified with individual patients, but the most common means of stealing those records is through physical theft of the files, often from third-party vendors or providers to whom the data was outsourced for billing, lab work, or other related services.

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  • By Kevin Hauser Submitted on February 20th, 2012

The U.S. Veteran’s Administration (VA) hospital system is the largest network of hospitals, doctors and clinics in the nation. Starting about a year ago, the VA began experimenting with a new personal health record (PHR) system for veterans to use in conjunction with their VA medical benefits.

The system is relatively simple to start with, mostly allowing easier access to the VA system for things like appointment setting and reminders, health tips, prescription refills, and the like. My HealtheVet is meant to grow slowly in functionality as the engineers building it find out what veterans want and need and implement it into plans for expansion.

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  • By Kevin Hauser Submitted on February 6th, 2012

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada this year had a lot of great gadgets and fun innovations. This included some innovative new electronic health devices, some of which may change the game for the better.

It seems that every company building devices wants to get into the personal health monitor game. This is good for those who like electronic and personal health records because the more of these devices that come to market, the lower their costs and more likely their adoption. There were devices ranging from wearable weight loss monitors, fitness and workout gadgets, and more. These were contrasted by more serious units for diagnostic and treatment.

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  • By Kevin Hauser Submitted on January 30th, 2012