During HIMSS 2016, I had the opportunity to talk to one of the true leaders in healthcare technology, Craig Richardville, Carolinas HealthCare Systems’ Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer who was recently named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS. Craig discuses a range of topics including interoperability and security challenges in healthcare, the government’s patient identification efforts, and Carolinas Healthcare Systems’ use of the palm vein biometric patient identity platform, Imprivata PatientSecure.

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As hospitals move to digitize records, they face a new threat, hackers. Recent attacks have forced some medical centers to pay ransom to regain access to their systems. While ransomware isn’t new, these attacks highlight hospital vulnerabilities. As Bertha Coombs reports from Boston, changes, however, are being made to prevent the next breach. 

Lexington, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 3, 2016 — Imprivata^® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT security company, today announced financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2016 were $31.5 million, an increase of 23% from revenues of $25.6 million for the same period in 2015. 

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