A conversation with Sean Kelly, CMO of Imprivata, a health IT company with single sign-on and secure SMS solutions that commissioned the study, entitled The Economic & Productivity Impact of IT Security on Healthcare.

U.S. physicians and hospitals are in the digital dark ages when it comes to using the latest mobile devices and Internet services to deliver patient care.

The use of obsolete technology is costing hospitals billions of dollars each year by decreasing physician efficiency and complicating compliance with privacy laws, according to a new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute.

HIPAA and outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care, according to a survey of physicians, hospital administrators and IT pros.

U.S. hospitals are wasting billions of dollars each year by having their staff use archaic communication technology like pagers.

Choosing where to play is the CEO’s big bet. He or she must lead the strategic direction of the company by examining the business environment, organizational history and recent results. Omar Hussain took the bet.

If employees at your hospital are using pagers or other outdated communications technologies, they're guilty of wasting both time and money--a lot of the latter, according to a new report published by the Ponemon Institute.

One conundrum that healthcare faces while it tries to create and adopt best-of-breed technologies that can make a clinician’s job more efficient while making data more transparent to patients is that these patients double as consumers. They’re used to a certain level of access with their mobile devices or social media platforms and expect healthcare to fall in line with expectations of other industries.

A look at some surveys dealing with risk and compliance issues that were released in the last week.

While in the past their relationship bordered on resentful at times, healthcare clinicians and their IT staffs are more open to collaboration. This unison of different ideologies was spurred by the absolute need to improve patient care with healthcare IT and ensure that patients and their data remain safe. A few panelists at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) Health IT Summit last week discussed this rise in importance.