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Computer viruses in medical devices: who should bear the costs for combatting? FDA issues warning, takes action

Computer virus infections of medical devices continue to be a serious issue, keeping healthcare provider IT departments busy removing malware. (See our October 2012 blog post " Computer viruses on hospital medical devices: a growing concern; possible...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2013 5:23 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, hipaa, HITECH, ARRA, Articles, FDA, operating system, ED, HITECH Act, Act, Privacy & Security, GAO, American recovery and reinvestment act, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medical device, windows, medical equipment, Higher, Higher Ed, computer security, hospital medical device, security patch, Government Accountability Office, OS update, malware, computer virus, USFDA, medical-device security, OS
Steve Fox featured in Healthcare Informatics article

Negotiating favorable contracts with IT vendors requires skill and determination on the part of healthcare providers on a playing field that currently favors vendors. Steve Fox and three other healthcare IT leaders share their insights in this in-depth...

Published Thu, May 05 2013 3:20 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, ARRA, Articles, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, Higher Ed
"Health IT Law" blogger Steven J. Fox featured in "Healthcare Informatics" article

Negotiating favorable contracts with IT vendors requires skill and determination on the part of healthcare providers, on a playing field that currently favors vendors. Blogger Steven J. Fox and three other healthcare IT leaders share their insights in...

Published Thu, May 05 2013 3:20 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, hipaa, electronic health record, Healthcare, healthcare IT, HITECH, ARRA, Certification, accountable care, Implementation, Articles, IT, Accountable Care Organization, CIO, ACO, HITECH Act, Hospital, Privacy & Security, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Information technology, certified, EHR Certification, Higher education, Higher Ed, EHR system, EHR vendor, contract term, implementational partner, go-live, clinical IS vendor contract, clinical IT vendor, vendor contract process, inpatient electronic health record, Post & Schell, vendor contract, IT vendor, patient care organization, clinical IS implementation contract, decertification, outpatient HER vendor, healthcare IT leader, inpatient EHR, standardized contract, third-party vendor, bundled-payment contract, HER
EHR vendor loses ONC certification for two of its records systems

This week health care organizations were startled and not a little concerned to learn of the ONC's unprecedented action with regards to a California health software company. The agency is decertifying electronic health records systems which initially...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2013 11:03 AM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, hipaa, electronic health record, ARRA, ONC, Articles, Surveillance, HHS, HITECH Act, Attest, Privacy & Security, EHR Incentive Program, monitoring, EHR Certification, Higher education, Higher Ed, EHR system, certification program, incentive payment program, testing and certifying, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Carol Bean, Peter Ashkenaz, cloud-based, EHRMagic-Ambulatory, EHRMagic, EHRMagic-Inpatient, certified EHR system
IT staffing shortage a chronic issue for health industry

The healthcare industry continues to face a greater deficit than ever in terms of qualified professionals to fill its ever-expanding information technology staffing needs. Via Modern Healthcare : Many U.S. healthcare companies – about 67% -- report...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2013 11:09 AM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, hipaa, ARRA, Articles, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, Higher education, Higher Ed, Towers Watson, IT staffing, IT recruiting, IT workers, information technology workers, retention bonuses, base salary, retain
The 128-Byte Data Field That Could Save Lives and Billions of Dollars

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 8:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: hipaa, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HIMSS, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, Patient Engagement, interoperability, FDA, HHS, Congress, HITECH Act, People in healthcare, Technology in healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Forbes, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Change Management, Dan Munro, TED talks about health, Hugo Campos, PATIENT-CENTERED, health care costs, Effectiveness/Efficiency, government regulation, health care incentives, standard protocol, health care waste, medical device data and HIPAA, national patient identifier, national provider identifier
Arianna and Lupe and Deepak and Sanjay – will the cool factor drive mobile health adoption?

Published Thu, Mar 03 2013 10:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Meaningful Use, Health IT, HIMSS, Health information technology, accountable care organizations, ACOs, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, HITECH Act, mHealth Summit, mobile health, People in healthcare, BodyMedia, Health care professionals, Rock Health, venture capital, remote monitoring, mHealth, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Innovation/innovative companies, digital health, Quantified Self, Consumer Electronics Show, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Bill Clinton, Change Management, Susannah Fox, United Health Care, celebrities, patient reminders, self-monitoring technology, FDA approval process, technology adoption, prescribed mobile apps, sitting, QS, The Health Care Blog, Pew Internet and American Life survey, Deepak Chopra, SXSW, Sanjay Gupta, Arianna Huffington
Health at SXSW13 vs. HIMSS13: the Yin, the Yang, and the Blur

Published Tue, Mar 03 2013 6:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Health IT, HIMSS, Health information technology, data security, Social Media, Patient Engagement, collaboration, Entrepreneurs, evidence-based medicine, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, HITECH Act, Medical research, People in healthcare, BodyMedia, Health care professionals, Eric Topol MD, Medical devices, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Innovation/innovative companies, digital health, Quantified Self, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, disruptive innovation, transparency, Change Management, Creative Destruction of Medicine, health outcomes, developing countries, patient empowerment, PATIENT-CENTERED, government regulation, Meaningful Use EHR, Peter Katzmarzyk Ph.D., venture capitalists, FDA regulation medical apps, self-monitoring, SXSW, DIY medicine
Changes to HIPAA Impacting Healthcare Covered Entities & Business Associates

Published Mon, Mar 03 2013 8:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: hipaa, EMR, electronic medical records, HIPAA Compliance, HITECH Act, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, Christina Thielst, encryption, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Change Management, Genes & genomics, Medical Ethics, Christina's Considerations, risk management, security breaches, HIPAA Privacy Rules
Health care digitization enriches software industry

The software lobby’s pitch to the health care industry, and to Congress, was that health care would receive not only the $19 billion to be provided by the government for health care digitization, but that the shift to electronic records would result...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2013 11:43 AM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, EHR, Healthcare, ARRA, Economic Stimulus, electronic health records, Articles, Health care, Allscripts, health data, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, vendor, athenahealth, Epic, Cerner, Incentive, Republican, Lobbying, Obama, Higher education, Higher Ed, electronic records, profit, digital medical records, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society EHR Vendor Association, windfall, Glen Tullman, Democrat, lobby, lobbyist, Neal Patterson
Health IT Law Blog Named to a List of Top Health Care Organizations

Our blog is proud to be featured in the Top 100 Health Care Organizations to Watch in 2013. The designation was published by MHAPrograms.org, a website that highlights the most prominent organizations and information resources across health care and health...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 2:00 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, ARRA, Articles, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security
Mostashari urges HIT vendors to conduct themselves ethically

Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, believes most HIT vendors operate in good faith. At a recent meeting, however, Mostashari stated that he will be testing organized peer pressure as a means of bringing more ethically...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 8:06 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, HITECH, ARRA, ONC, Articles, Regulation, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, Farzad Mostashari, The Righteous Mind, Higher education, Higher Ed, fair play, electronic health record vendor, Jonathan Haidt, HIT vendor, Health IT Policy Committee, data lock-in, opaque pricing, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Family doctor EHR use up although use varies by location

The Annals of Family Medicine reports that although use of electronic health records has not increased significantly in all regions, it has risen dramatically nationwide in the last few years. Via Modern Healthcare : The number of family physicians who...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 5:55 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, EHR, HITECH, ARRA, electronic health records, Physicians, Articles, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, Higher education, Higher Ed, ABFM, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, Annals of Family Medicine:, American Board of Family medicine, NAMCS
Family doctor EHR use up although varied by location

The Annals of Family Medicine reports that although use of electronic health records has not increased significantly in all regions, it has risen dramatically nationwide in the last few years. Via Modern Healthcare : The number of family physicians who...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 5:55 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, EHR, HITECH, ARRA, electronic health records, Physicians, Articles, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, Higher education, Higher Ed, ABFM, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, Annals of Family Medicine:, American Board of Family medicine, NAMCS
CMS Releases December 2012 EHR Data and Reports – 355k Registered, >$10B Payments Issued

As of December 2012, more than 355,000 hospitals and healthcare professionals registered for the EHR incentive programs and more than 190,000 health care providers received payment totally over $10 billion for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 10:39 AM by Ethan W. Moore

Filed under: CMS, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Healthcare, HITECH, ARRA, HIT, Health information technology, attestation, Healthcare News, Health care, HHS, Incentive payments, HITECH Act, Health Care Reform, EHR incentive, Incentive Program, Ethan W. Moore, Ethan Moore, EHR Incentive Programs, Attest

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