Even as the use of mobile health, or mHealth, technology grew over the last few years, health care executives have paid too little attention to the need for mobile device security, and existing  policies are often not followed by physicians, according to presenters at the mHealth Summit 2012.

Even as the use of mobile health, or mHealth, technology grew over the last few years, health care executives have paid too little attention to the need for mobile device security, and existing policies are often not followed by physicians, according to presenters at the mHealth Summit 2012 as reported by Search HealthIT.

When Meaningful Use Stage 2 roles out in 2013, one guideline hospital’s EHRs will have to meet is increased protection of patient health information. That means the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will be doing audits for HIPAA-compliance.

Whether in the ED or at the bedside, physicians are focused on quality care, and they will embrace solutions that support, not detract from, that goal.

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Carina Edwards has been appointed senior vice president and head of the customer experience group at Imprivata, a healthcare information technology security company in Lexington.

Ed Ricks - CIO and Stacey Johnston Medical Director, Hospitalist Program - from Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) talk how they make sure patients and not technology remain caregivers' primary focus. BMH use VMware Point of Care solution with VMware View, Imprivata SSO and Samsung Zero Clients.

Healthcare IT News interviews Omar Hussain, president and CEO of Imprivata, about how privacy and efficiency drive healthcare IT security.

Designed to improve clinician efficiency without compromising security, Dell's MCC solution For Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare combines desktop virtualization, single-sign-on and strong authentication technologies with expert consulting, implementation and support services. For the deployment at TMH, the solution featured Citrix XenDesktop® for desktop virtualization, Imprivata OneSign® for single sign-on and strong authentication, and AppSense® Environment Manager™ for profile management.

Monday always feels like a day of catch-up, doesn’t it? Digging out of the weekend’s emails, revisiting goals, resetting weekly priorities and it seems that 90% of meetings are held on Mondays. Not to mention there are 48 hours of industry news to catch up on. If the digital and social news era have taught us anything, it’s the news cycle never rests.