HIMSS “Biggest Take-Aways”

Posted by baldwinc on Apr 11, 2013 in Blog | Comments Off on HIMSS “Biggest Take-Aways”

I’ve been following a HIMSS thread on this topic.  The common themes include Accountable Care, HIE/Interoperability, Business Intelligence & Data Security.  With regard to the first three the sentiment is that we are on the cusp of breakthroughs.  I would agree – but also feel real progress will come when a new and improved healthcare business model becomes more of a reality.  We...

Announcing the 6th Annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security Conference

Posted by baldwinc on Feb 28, 2013 in Blog | Comments Off on Announcing the 6th Annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security Conference

May 21 & 22, 2013 – Ronald Reagan Center, Washington, D.C. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are co-hosting the 6th annual conference Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security on May 21 & 22, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building and...

Book: “Beginning of Infiniti”

Posted by baldwinc on Jan 14, 2013 in Blog | Comments Off on Book: “Beginning of Infiniti”

I started this interesting book my brother gave me for Christmas.  An underlying premise of the book is that knowledge breakthroughs come from new paradigms envisioned through creative thought, rather than through deduction and induction only after empirical observation.  That these breakthroughs are validated when they prove resistant to falsification. Criticism is critical for this process,...

Good Article on 2013 Data Security Threats

Posted by baldwinc on Jan 4, 2013 in Blog | Comments Off on Good Article on 2013 Data Security Threats

Today January 3, 2013, Health Data Management posted a good article on what looms ahead in 2013 regarding data security.  And some excellent advise, including:  “Take a data inventory, classify it by confidentiality or sensitivity level, and handle it accordingly.”  –Click here for full...

Information Technology Architecture in Healthcare

Posted by baldwinc on Jan 2, 2013 in Blog | Comments Off on Information Technology Architecture in Healthcare

The traditional best-of-breed approach in healthcare IT long ago fell out of favor.  But with the promise of health information exchange (HIE) technology, web technology, single sign-on, SaaS and other technology advances there is a growing desire to plug disparate systems together.  Yet to achieve the level of transformation ACO’s portend there is no panacea in these technology advances. ...