A career in healthcare is stressful. It is an inherent part of the job. Physicians must use high level problem solving and human interaction at the same time to provide care for patients in every form of health. Each situation is different and provides a new challenge in diagnosis and treatment. Breaks on the job are few and far between. Shifts are long and days off are sparse. This is ...

Where do our medical records live? In the developing age of EHR interoperability, the question will soon be...Where WILL our medical records live? We are entering a critical decision-making time where we must give serious thought to who has ownership, control, and access to patient records.

Pre-EHR, in the era of paper records, it was pretty straightforward that the provider would keep and ...

Healthcare institutions are a constantly changing ecosystem of people on the move, including internal employees, patients, visitors, and contractors, intermixing throughout the day. This makes healthcare institutions particularly vulnerable to the practice of social engineering, or people pretending to be someone they are not. These methods are employed by bad actors who are trying to gain ...

It's that time of year - the summer road trip. Millions of Americans get in their cars, pack the kids, and drive to faraway vacation destinations. But did they bring enough money? What if they run out and need more? This might have been a valid concern in the '60s, but with the interoperability of the banking system, most of us no longer carry physical currency at all.

What happens if the ...

Radiohead is a popular rock band from England. Millions of fans around the world have bought their music since their debut in 1985. The band was recently hacked, and an archive of their music, not intended to be released to the public, was stolen. The archive contained ...