by Tim Rowan Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, conducts independent research and education that advances information security, data protection, privacy and responsible information management practices within businesses and governments throughout the world. At last week’s HIMSS meeting, Ponemon announced results of The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations in 2016 (February 2016). […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, HCTR Among the lineup of experts from hospital systems and payers, Philip Painter, MD, the Chief Medical Officer for Humana AT Home will be a featured speaker at the World Health Care Congress in Washington DC, April 10-13. Organizers have arranged for both in-person and online registrations and promised that online participants […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, HCTR In today’s competitive environment, when profit margins are razor thin, providers are well aware of the old sales training adage that it is easier to keep a customer than to win a new one. The expense, however, of keeping in touch with every discharged patient is prohibitive, when […]
