Category: “Healthcare IT”

Looking at the financial data from another perspective, capital expenditure for medical equipment replacement overall – including non-IT technology and other equipment – dropped from 30.4 percent in 2009 to 27 percent in 2013 and new medical equipment costs went from 44.5 percent to 13.8 percent, according to Jim Adams, executive director, research and insights, at the Advisory Board Company. During the same period, IT purchases went from 21.8 percent to 24.2 percent.

Kaiser has had its fourth HIPAA breach. "To date, more than 30.6 million individuals have had their PHI compromised in a large HIPAA privacy or security breach -- breaches involving more than 500 people -- according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.   HIPAA-covered entities and, now, business associates, have handed over some $18.6 million to settle alleged federal HIPAA violations, with $3.7 million of that just from last year. And this isn't counting the state and private legal settlements."