health IT

Given that stolen medical records can bring $50 apiece on the underground market, the frequency and magnitude of data breaches involving electronic health records is increasing. In an effort to help CIOs and CSOs build a better business case for enhancing security, a group of standards and security organizations have issued a new report on the financial impact of such data breaches.

NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering.

Scientists at Cambridge University are developing a computer system that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make rapid connections between facts and develop hypotheses.

IBM is making a play to help manage patient care with its Watson data analytics computing platform, amid potential concerns arising out of automated healthcare.

Timothy Stettheimer, CIO for St. Vincent's Health System in Birmingham, Ala., has more confidence in IT certifications than referrals and in-person interviews when it comes to hiring.

Flush with federal funds and under the gun of federal regulatory deadlines, the healthcare industry is leading the market in IT jobs creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics job placement services.

Christopher Burgess on writing a new prescription for health data trust.

Safaricom healthcare journey sprout when the organization saw the need to touch communities in remote areas of the country with a cost effective and reliable health solution platform. Through digital villages, patients in remote areas of Kenya will have access to a doctor through the TelePresence system with help from a health worker. TelePresence mimics a real life experience with a doctor. This shows how the future of our life is bound to depend on video.

We've been talking about data overload for years in the life sciences industry, which has driven the incremental acquisition of larger and larger storage and processing capabilities within organizations. This acquisition trend is changing with the move to the cloud and continuing virtualization of existing IT infrastructure.

Like many, I have watched IBM's Watson computer compete on the answer and question show Jeopardy, wondering what IBM has created. During the course of the show, my mind regularly wandered off, wondering whether this event has broader implications. Having been briefed on Watson prior to the show's airing, it is clear that Watson is not HAL (see 2001, A Space Odyssey), and yet, within the confines of the Jeopardy challenge, IBM's innovators have created a skilled Jeopardy competitor second to none. One wonders whether Watson would have achieved the same result if it only had 5 racks of computers instead of 10 (since Watson seemed quicker to respond) or whether it would have fared as well without much of its pre-show training.

Patients may soon be able to cut health care costs by running blood tests off their iPhones and Droids and having the results automatically forwarded to their doctors, according to new discoveries by researchers at the University of Rhode Island.