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Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday the launch of HealthLake, a cloud storage and analysis service available to healthcare and life sciences organizations. According to the company, the service allows organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, query and apply machine learning to analyze data in the cloud, as well as automatically structuring information into […]
Four out of five organizations surveyed for a report released Wednesday have experienced a cybersecurity breach precipitated by a third-party vendor over the past 12 months, according to chief information officers, chief information security officers and other C-suite leaders polled. What’s more, the report, from cyber services firm BlueVoyant, found that of the 1,500-plus security […]
ClearDATA, a vendor of healthcare public-cloud security, compliance, and privacy technologies and services, today debuted a new software-as-a-service system, ClearDATA Locate Mask, that enables healthcare organizations to leverage unstructured datasets containing PHI or PII by masking or redacting the sensitive data. WHY IT MATTERS Powered by machine learning models, Locate Mask works on one of […]
It wasn’t too long ago that most IT and security professionals would balk at the very idea of keeping mission-critical data – especially protected health information – in the public cloud. For all the convenience, cost savings and agility remote hosting might offer, after all, the risks of entrusting such precious data to a third […]
Cyberattacks, especially those stemming from phishing schemes, continue to plague healthcare organizations, but some aspects of company response and employee awareness appear to be improving, according to this year’s Data Security Incident Response Report from leading data privacy and cybersecurity law firm BakerHostetler. WHY THIS MATTERS Healthcare industry entities comprise one-quarter of incidents analyzed in […]
The American Medical Informatics Association has voiced its support for the draft Federal Data Strategy, noting that if properly deployed it could improve information sharing and analytics for healthcare research and more. The government's data strategy proposal seeks to define principles and practices for how government agencies use and manage data. It aims to create […]
Digital data has become the lifeblood of healthcare, touching every facet of the delivery system and informing – sometimes transforming – the way clinical decisions are made and operational strategies are developed and deployed. And, as anyone who is a healthcare decision-maker knows all too well, there's more data than ever before – structured, unstructured, […]
While the FHIR specification continues gaining momentum, early success stories are happening among hospitals around the country. Health Sciences South Carolina, for instance, built a FHIR-based clinical data repository infrastructure to create an inter-institutional culture of collaboration for learning from clinical practice, and empowering action through access to data while advancing evidence. "Our goal was […]