Healthcare

Earlier this month, we shared with you how Rhode Island Blood Center was able to harness the efficiencies of Absolute Computrace to easily and cost-effectively track their hardware assets. In our case study, we shared an overview of Rhode Island Blood Center’s need to protect the laptops and tablets used during more than 3,000 mobile blood drives annually. A loss of one of these devices would be devastating. Think it...

The deadline to enrol for coverage in 2014 under the new Affordable Care Act, (“Obamacare”) is March 31, 2014. More than 6 million Americans have signed up for coverage through the new Health Insurance Marketplaces since October 1st. Also on the horizon is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which requires that healthcare providers switch over to electronic medical records (ePHI) by 2015 on penalty of lost...

Rhode Island Blood Center uses Absolute to cost-effectively track hardware assets - thereby making IT people's lives easier. Rhode Island Blood Center is a 6-location independent blood bank serving the hospitals of Rhode Island, with a team of 350 employees of 180 volunteers. Aside from the blood donation centre locations, the Center relies hazily on more than 3,000 mobile blood drives each year, during which laptop computers are used...

According to the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), there were over 100 HIPAA privacy breaches affecting 500 or more individuals in 2013. When the numbers were crunched two months prior to the end of 2013, there had been 730 data breach incidents recorded by the OCR between 2009 and 2013. As of January 8, 2014, that number is now 773. More...

Research firm Frost & Sullivan recently released The Three Big Predictions for the Global Healthcare Market based on a 2013 survey of 1,835 executives in more than 40 countries. The report identifies key areas of growth in the global healthcare market in 2014 and beyond: mHealth, Cloud in Healthcare, and Regulatory Environments. The report looks at what has fuelled the growth in each of these areas. For example, the mHealth...