A Week in Review, Aug 8

Best Practices For Selecting An EHR

[InformationWeek Healthcare] An in-depth analysis and exhaustive checklist from Huntington Memorial Hospital's Rebecca Armato. Rebecca Armato doesn't mince words. "Just as the right medical treatment is critical to a patient's survival, the right approach to EHR selection and adoption is critical to the health/survival of a physician's practice," she said. Read full story.


EHRs are easy prey, but all is not lost

[Network World] Wherever money and information flow, so do the bad guys. And with estimates that the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) market in the U.S. will reach $6 billion by 2015 -- according to the research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets -- it's no surprise criminals are paying more attention. Also no shock is that as more records are digitized, there are many more breaches involving patient data. This is not unlike when vast credit card breaches quickly followed the rise of e-commerce in the early part of the previous decade. Read full story.


5 Considerations on Health Information Exchanges: What Your Hospital or Health System Needs to Know

[Hospital Review] Hospitals and health systems are scrambling to become meaningful users of certified electronic health record technology within their own entities, but what's the next step to share health information after that step? The answer for many organizations will be health information exchanges. Read full story.


How healthcare packaging professionals are using iPads for business

[Healthcare Packaging] Tablet computing has been around for years, but the category didn't take off until Apple launched the iPad in April 2010. A year and a half later, Apple has sold more than 25 million iPads. And that's nothing compared to what's to come. Millions and millions more will be sold over the next 12 months, by Apple and the slew of Android competitors being released. Read full story.