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Brief Dive Brief: Interoperability is improving in healthcare, but providers still have a ways to go to achieve the kinds of operational and workflow efficiencies envisioned with health information technologies, according to an analysis of CHIME’s latest Most Wired survey. Nearly all organizations report at least 95% of their clinicians regularly access clinical information electronically. Respondents report also nearly all of their doctors electronically access their EHR, medical images, clinical guidelines and other references. Yet only about half of physicians can tap into those resources using mobile applications and many lack access to secure messaging, the survey finds. CHIME presented the survey results this week at its Fall CIO Forum in San Diego.  Dive Insight: Major gaps also persist in integrating EHRs with patient monitoring equipment, the report shows. For example, just one-fourth of respondents report sending data from IV pumps directly to EHRs, … [Read more...] about CHIME’s Most Wired survey highlights progress, gaps in health IT adoption

Dive Brief: Nearly one in five health IT executives reported a malware or ransomware attack affected medical devices at their provider organizations in the last 18 months, according to a new report by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Klas Research. Only 39% of survey respondents said they were confident or very confident that their organization’s current cybersecurity strategy protects patient safety and prevents disruptions in care. Most (96%) cited factors related to manufacturers as a root cause of medical device security issues, with out-of-date operating systems or unavailability of patch solutions being major security risks. Dive Insight: FDA believes a cyber attack on medical devices remains a persistent threat, more than a year after the May 2017 WannaCry global ransomware attack froze computers at U.K. hospitals and affected over 200,000 businesses and organizations across more than a hundred countries. The agency last month said … [Read more...] about One in 5 health IT execs say malware has hit devices

Dive Brief: Nearly one in five health IT executives reported a malware or ransomware attack affected medical devices at their provider organizations in the last 18 months, according to a new report by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Klas Research. Only 39% of survey respondents said they were confident or very confident that their organization’s current cybersecurity strategy protects patient safety and prevents disruptions in care. Most (96%) cited factors related to manufacturers as a root cause of medical device security issues, with out-of-date operating systems or unavailability of patch solutions being major security risks. Dive Insight: FDA believes a cyber attack on medical devices remains a persistent threat, more than a year after the May 2017 WannaCry global ransomware attack froze computers at U.K. hospitals and affected over 200,000 businesses and organizations across more than a hundred countries. The agency last month said … [Read more...] about One in 5 health IT execs says malware has hit devices

Dive Brief: Nearly a third of health IT developers preparing to meet 2015 Edition EHR certification requirements are using the Fast Health Interoperability Resources standard, specifically FHIR Release 2, a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology finds. More than half (51%) of health IT developers are using FHIR combined with OAuth 2.0, the industry standard for authorization, ONC said. Apple is an early champion of the FHIR Release 2, with a FHIR-based client app, but other large tech companies are also making the shift to the new standard, according to the report. Dive Insight: FHIR is a key metric for interoperability and meeting overall connectivity goals. CMS has set a 2019 deadline for providers to update their EHRs to 2015 certification. During HIMSS18, CMS Administrator Seema Verma warned that the days of data blocking are over and the industry must move to open APIs to ensure data sharing. The 32% of health IT … [Read more...] about Nearly a third of health IT developers producing FHIR products, ONC says