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• US hospital reports data blackmail

  An Illinois hospital says someone attempted to blackmail it to stop the release of data about some of its patients.

• The Future of mHealth Goes Well Beyond Fitness Apps

  The mobile health (mMealth) marketplace has lived up to its hype, but where it goes next depends on our changing healthcare needs.

• FTC: Online billing service deceptively collected medical records

  An online service allowing consumers to pay their medical bills failed to adequately inform them that it would also try to collect highly detailed medical information from their pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.

• What Does All That Healthcare Data Really Mean?

  Bringing more data into the public domain may be a critical step toward increasing transparency in the famously opaque healthcare sector, but raw data alone will only go so far, experts warn.

• Health IT Success Hinges on CIO-Business Collaboration

  CIOs in all industries can face challenges aligning their work with the business units of the enterprise, but in the healthcare industry, perhaps more than most, it is critical to win the support of the executives and front-line workers in the operation, a panel of experts said at a recent health IT conference.

• Inside AHIMA's Framework for Healthcare Information Governance

  "Overall, information governance programs are less prevalent and less mature in healthcare organizations than is warranted, given the importance of information."

• CIOs Must Be Healthcare Leaders to Battle Consumer Confusion

  The widespread confusion and worries over costs among healthcare consumers call for CIOs to take a more active role in orchestrating outreach campaigns to help educate individuals and small businesses and make better decisions about their plan options.

• Why Is Healthcare IT Under Fire?

  It's been a rough year for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT -- and it's unclear when things will get better.

• Researchers, medical workers seek tech answers to Ebola outbreak

  WORCESTER, Mass. -- Researchers in robotics will meet with health care and aid workers around the country Friday to get ideas on how technology could help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak, as well as the spread of other dangerous viruses.

• Wearable Health Tech in Early Days, But Long-Term Benefits Emerging

  A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study concludes that, for the bulk of users, wearable health devices are a novelty that wears off. Only 21 percent of 1,000 consumers surveyed own a wearable, and fewer than half of device owners wear them daily.

• Predicting the Role of the Healthcare CIO Role in 2020

  To describe the current state of the healthcare CIO role, Jim Turnbull uses the military-inspired acronym VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

• Healthcare CIOs Can't Be Afraid to Innovate

  Steven Sasson built the first digital camera in 1975. He worked for Kodak. Thirty-seven years later, Kodak went out of business because it failed to embrace technology it had invented.

• Future points to Healthcare IT as a Service

  IT leaders today frequently mention the importance of bringing social, mobile, analytics and Cloud technology - the so-called "SMAC stack" - into a single, integrated architecture.

• Government regulation on cloud security may spur SaaS use in health care

  Governments may need to tighten the regulatory screws on SaaS vendors to make them be more transparent and forthcoming about their security practices.

• Software developer shortage transcends international boundaries

  The dearth of software development talent isn't an issue restricted to U.S. businesses. Finding programmers, especially to fill positions in the growing field of health IT, is a global challenge, said speakers Tuesday during a panel discussion on developing a health IT workforce.