Health IT

NIST revises cybersecurity guidelines specifically for health data

Enhanced cybersecurity measures can help further protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of patient heath information such as prescription records, lab test results, vaccination records and hospital visit logs.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

AI-enabled health care: First, do not automate harm

A procurement contract template with AI riders, algorithms that are secure and free from bias and medical devices that can be queried as to their functionality and safety will all improve the quality of health care, Aspen Institute fellows say.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Better mental health treatments with synthetic patient data

Synthetic data will allow the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to research mental health treatments without exposing patients' identity.

  • By Susan Miller

Wyoming health IT modernization nears completion

The modules of the Wyoming Integrated Next Generation System were procured separately to ensure best-of-breed solutions.

  • By GCN Staff

White House Developing Digital, Community-Oriented Health Care Service

The White House is asking for examples of digital community health programs in the U.S. and abroad.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game

By accounting for the value of the shared data, the game-based approach finds strategies that strike the right balance between utility and privacy.

  • By Zhiyu Wan, Bradley Malin, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and Ellen Wright Clayton, The Conversation

Baker: VistA code project will stay wide open

A project to streamline source code for the Veterans Affairs' VistA software will remain accessible to the open source community, says VA CIO Roger Baker.

  • By GCN Staff

Managed service can help organizations meet HIPAA privacy rules

HIPAA Essential from StillSecure can help organizations meet the requirements of the HITECH Act.

  • By GCN Staff

Write once, use 50 times: How CMS' coder challenge will benefit states

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services taps NASA's Tournament Lab for an online competition to develop a new module for Medicaid management.

  • By William Jackson

Medicine's mobile mania raises the threat level, DHS warns

Mobile devices are ideal for many medical uses, but they also can put patient records, and sometimes even patients themselves, at risk, according to a DHS report.

  • By Kevin McCaney

California loses personal info for 700,000...on microfiche

The records, including Social Security numbers and state ID numbers for home care workers and recipients, were lost or stolen while in the mail.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

Mobile tech, employee error blamed for rise in medical data breaches

More than a quarter of U.S. health care providers in a recent survey experienced a breach of patient data in the past year, continuing an upward trend.

  • By GCN Staff

CMS taps analytics to examine big health care data

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create visualization tools, advanced analytics and prototypes for health data delivery.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Where does the IT money go in 2013 budget proposal?

Obama's 2013 budget proposal aims to cut federal IT but increase its use when it makes government more efficient. Here's where 10 departments stand.

  • By 1105 Media Staff
Featured eBooks

Unleash the data scientists: How government can use big data

Government agencies would do well to invest in the new breed of data scientists, trained to bring a statistical, technological and business mindset to the use of big data.

  • By Paul McCloskey

White House: Tech standards are (mostly) industry's job

Standards will be created primarily by industry, but the government will still have a say in national priority areas such as cybersecurity, health care IT and clean energy.

  • By William Jackson

Broadband network grants should boost employment

A $45 million grant to help double the size of a nonprofit regional network is expected to add hundreds of jobs in the Northeast Ohio Rust Belt.

  • By William Jackson

Broadband nonprofit shines light on Rust Belt economy

A $45 million federal recovery grant is helping the OneCommunity development program build out a 1,800-mile high speed regional network for Northeast Ohio being used by area governments, educational institutions and health care providers.

  • By William Jackson

Oracle releases platform for building health insurance exchanges

Oracle's health care reform system consists of a broad set of the software company's applications and technology that are designed to work together.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Should government be worried? Google drops e-health, energy services.

Google is pulling the plug on two projects, Google Health and PowerMeter, that mirror government initiatives. The main reason: not enough people were interested in using them.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Text service lets patients find shortest ER wait times

Patients in some states can send a text message to a service, 4ER411, to find the shortest emergency room wait times at nearby participating hospitals.

  • By Kathleen Hickey