Joseph Goedert

CHIME, a professional association for chief information officers, and AEHiS, which represents chief information security officers, seek tighter control of devices for security purposes.

Three healthcare plans in Tennessee have joined an effort to improve the accuracy of provider data submitted to insurers.

The National Institutes of Health and Fitbit are encouraging users of the activity technology to supply data to find linkages between health and personal activity data

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York is sharing claims data via HEALTHeLINK, the region’s health information exchange, to help providers improve care.

Aetna has signed on to the Synaptic Health Alliance, a group started by Humana and four other insurers earlier this year and which is also adding hospitals.

Health insurer Cigna is launching a mobile app to connect members to its Healthy Pregnancies and Healthy Babies prenatal program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reporting unauthorized access to consumer data in systems that support federal insurance exchanges.

The OCR has hit the health insurer with the fine as part of a settlement from its massive January 2015 breach.

Hackers accessed information systems at Toyota Industries North America, compromising personal and protected health information.

The wearables company has created the platform for health insurers, employers and healthcare delivery systems.

Independence Blue Cross is alerting nearly 17,000 members after an employee put protected health information on to a public-facing website.

Healthcare companies take steps to safeguard against backdoor risks.

The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

Log-in attempts continued on 2 sites for two days in early June and likely came from foreign sources.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Payers frequently tell providers that they don’t support certain HIPAA transactions, contends Robert Tennant.

The pilot program will be used in a cross-industry initiative designed to improve and validate the information in provider directories.

The companies' complementary analytics backbones can provide a fuller view of customers.

The offering uses mimicked version of an information system to fool hackers, says Chris Albery of the HITRUST organization.