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Health Care Data Storage: Health Care IT Executives Worry about Rapid Data Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Over the next two years, data managed by health care providers about their patients and their businesses is expected to increase dramatically.  Three drivers for the huge uptake of data, as identified in an Iron Mountain report on HIMSS analytics,

Health Care: Slow Road to Implementing Security Controls

By Dick Weisinger

Tripwire/Ponemon recently surveyed 1320 health care IT staff and management members about risk-based security management in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. 70 percent of health care organizations said that it’s very difficult to communicate upward from departments and line of businesses to

Healthcare Cloud Computing: Rapid Growth Predicted at least through 2017

By Dick Weisinger

The Healthcare industry has traditionally been conservative and slow moving when adopting new IT technologies. Harry Greenspun, senior adviser to Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, told eWeek that “it’s rarely a question of scale; it’s always a question of pace.

Health Care: IT Management of Health Care Exchange Under Scrutiny

By Dick Weisinger

ObamaCare health care exchanges are shaping up to be textbook material for how not to run an IT project. The hope is to be able to bring 48 million uninsured into the new system, but the first week of the

HIPAA: Deadline Looms for Complying with Updated Patient Privacy Regulations

By Dick Weisinger

The HIPAA omnibus rule is a recent update to the HIPAA regulations originally established in 1996. HIPAA is designed to protect the privacy of patients. The Department of Health and Human Services published online that “This final omnibus rule marks