Healthcare Security with Leon Lerman, CEO of Cynerio
Healthcare is filled with cybersecurity risks.  While we’ve dealt with network security risks and software vulnerability risks for a long time, we’re also starting to learn how to protect ourselves against the human risk of our employees falling for a phishing attack.  Along with these, we are also seeing device proliferation in healthcare organizations which […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Cynerio Healthcare Cyberinsurance Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Ransomware Healthcare Security Healthcare Security Incentives HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Source Type: blogs

George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 2
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. This month he was given a lifetime achievement award by HIMSS and we are running his acceptance speech in two parts. We ran part one last week, and here’s part two– Matthew Holt We also initially have an important and continuously improving sense of the epigenetic processes that exist in all of us to develop our own responses to the world we are in at a biological level, and we should be able to use that information to improve ou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Early Childhood Education George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award payment models Source Type: blogs

#Healthin2Point00, Episode 228 | Mahana, Vera, Cadence, Commure & Ovia
#HealthIn2Point00 is still catching up on back deals from my HIMSS “vacation” when Jess lost track of me. Mahana Therapeutics gets $61m for its IBS related CBT DTx. Not everyone is happy! Vera Whole Health Clinic gets $50mm even if they don’t love Jess! Cadence gets $41m for RPM. Commure buys PatientKeeper from HCA, and LabCorp buys femtech co Ovia Health–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Commure Jess DaMassa LabCorp Mahana Therapeutics Matthew Holt Ovia Health PatientKeeper Vera Whole Health Source Type: blogs

Blockchain Data Centers and Glaucomflecken Does COVID and Infectious Disease – Fun Friday
It’s been a long week for me and possibly some of you.  The recovery after HIMSS is always a challenge, but coming back to my kids having to deal with COVID causing all sorts of questions and problems is next level craziness.  However, we do what we can and carry on.  Plus, that’s why we […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Dr. Glaucomflecken Fun Friday Healthcare Blockchain Source Type: blogs

#Healthin2Point00, Episode 227 | Maven, Carrot Fertility, Cricket Health & Sharecare
It’s the return of #HealthIn2Point00 after an overly long summer break (well, I went to HIMSS and Jess didn’t last week!). We have deals with Maven raising a big round, Cricket Health (from a few weeks back) filling its coffers and another fertility play, Carrot Fertility, getting $75m. Finally Sharecare gets its checkbook out — again–and buys a home care company. We have more to catch up on tomorrow–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 #Healthin2pt00 Carrot Fertility cricket health Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt mavenclinic ShareCare Source Type: blogs

What ’ s Required for an Enterprise Vision for Precision Medicine?
At the recent HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Joel Diamond, Chief Medical Officer at 2bPrecise and Dr. Maulik Purohit, Chief Innovation Lead and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at UH Cleveland.  In the discussion Dr. Diamond complimented Dr. Purohit and his team for having one of the […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 2bPrecise DNA Tests Dr. Joel Diamond Dr. Maulik Purohit EHR Genomics Genomic Medicine HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 U Source Type: blogs

George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 1
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. This month he was given a lifetime achievement award by HIMSS and we are running his acceptance speech in two parts. Here’s part one — Matthew Holt Thank you for giving me this first ever HIMSS Changemaker In Health Care Lifetime Achievement Award. You are honoring an extremely impressive set of other current changemakers at this particular national meeting for 2021 and I am very honored and pleased to be the first person to b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Source Type: blogs

Health IT Conferences – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/27 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “Health IT Conferences.” As we recover from the HIMSS conference that happened in person in Las Vegas and virtually last […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT #HITsm Topics Health IT Conferences Healthcare Conferences Healthcare IT Conferences HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Source Type: blogs

Difference Between Machine Learning and AI – Fun Friday
It’s Friday after a long week at the 2021 HIMSS Annual conference in Las Vegas.  I always love the feeling the Friday of HIMSS.  I’m absolutely exhausted, but I’m also completely energized and excited for the future.  Sharing time with incredible people that are working hard to use technology to improve healthcare is so inspiring. […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Healthcare IT Healthcare AI Healthcare Machine Learning HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Source Type: blogs

What ’s a Cable Company Doing at HIMSS21?
Cox Business, the B2B technology division of cable provider Cox Communications, is aiming to make more inroads in healthcare. They are doubling down on front-of-the-house technologies that impact clinical care vs back-end infrastructure. They are smartly growing their healthcare capabilities which were on full display at #HIMSS21 Non-traditional Vendors Every year at the HIMSS conference, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Cox Business Cox Communications George Valentine Healthcare Cloud Healthcare RTLS HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Trapollo Source Type: blogs

Insights and Perspectives at #HIMSS21 from Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS
Today I had the chance to hear from Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS at a press event during the HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas.  It was great to be able to hear his thoughts and perspectives on the industry and some perspectives on how the HIMSS21 conference has gone so far. Here’s […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hal Wolf HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Population Health Primary Care Retail Care Source Type: blogs

HIMSS21 Day 3 Live Updates from Colin Hung
On Day 2 of HIMSS21, John Lynn and I tried something new. We posted updates throughout the day of our meetings, discussions and observations: Day 2 Updates from John Lynn Day 2 Updates from Colin It was our way of sharing the HIMSS experience with those who were not able to join us in-person. Today […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare Operations HIMSS21 Interoperability Source Type: blogs

HIMSS21 Day 2 Live Updates from John Lynn
This year we thought we’d try something new at HIMSS 2021.  We’ll continue doing our regular coverage of topics we find interesting and useful for the Healthcare IT Today community.  Plus, we’ll be doing a number of video interviews which will go out on our Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast.  However, we thought it would […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT HIMSS HIMSS 2021 HIMSS21 Source Type: blogs

Convenience versus Relationships in Healthcare
As we kick off the HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas, this tweet highlighted a fundamental principle that many in healthcare don’t understand or at least don’t pay enough attention to.  Jan Oldenburg shared it in this tweet: When I interview patients it becomes clear that they really WANT both convenience and relationships with their […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Healthcare Convenience HIMSS HIMSS21 Jan Oldenburg Source Type: blogs

Epic Announces New EpicShare Site
As we head into the HIMSS21 Annual Conference next week, the news is already starting to come out.  Healthcare IT News shared that Epic would be rolling out a new site EpicShare at HIMSS21.   Well, the EpicShare site is now live and available for people to peruse. EpicShare is being billed as “a place for […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 3, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Epic Epic Commandments Epic EHR Epic Principles Epic UserWeb EpicShare Hey Judy HIMSS HIMSS Accelerate HIMSS21 Judy Faulkner Source Type: blogs