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Systemic Failures Drive HIT Spending, Survey Finds
Conducted by Harris Poll, an interesting survey finding points to "employees" in general as the biggest insider threat to data security.
Another industry survey on the state of health care’s ability to protect its data has reached an overall conclusion that is similar to the other surveys that have been released over the last several months—healthcare information technology (IT) is behind other industries, and “the results clearly point to systemic failures...when it comes to protecting sensitive data.”
The new survey was conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Vormetric, which describes itself as “the industry leader in data security solutions that protect data-at-rest across physical, big data and cloud environments.” US healthcare IT decision makers from 102 organizations with at least $200 million in revenue responded, so clearly the survey’s focus was on the larger health care organizations.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the two biggest risks identified by the respondents were the cloud and Big Data (massive amounts of data that are too large to be processed on standard computers using traditional database programs and software). And when Big Data is stored on the cloud, the vulnerability increases exponentially.
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Laundromats as a New Frontier in Community Health, Medicaid Outreach
May 29th 2025Lindsey Leininger, PhD, and Allister Chang, MPA, highlight the potential of laundromats as accessible, community-based settings to support Medicaid outreach, foster trust, and connect families with essential health and social services.
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Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Melinda B. Buntin, PhD
June 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The June issue features a conversation with Melinda B. Buntin, PhD, a health economist and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School.
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Inside the Center's MDD Value Model and Its Use of Dynamic Pricing
May 13th 2025Larragem Raines, MS, of the Center for Innovation & Value Research, discusses the organization's major depressive disorder (MDD) open-source value model, dynamic pricing, and the future role of artificial intelligence in care.
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