UCHealth Denver tested the real-time social feed, CareLoop, and its effectiveness with regard to its spread of messages and information. CareLoop is essentially Facebook for patients; it is a medium that facilitates messages from medical professionals, questions from patients, test results, explanations, even providing users with information on possible symptoms and what they should be expecting in terms of certain procedures and medicines. Like most social media sites, CareLoop is a live feed, allowing patients to acquire their information and stay current up to the minute. Physicians and nurses have more opportunities to communicate with their patients without the necessity of a face-to-face visit.

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In an effort to assist our Canadian business, Giva has compiled a listing of upcoming 2017 customer service conferences and summits. We hope this will be helpful to you!

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In an effort to assist our Canadian business, Giva has compiled a listing of upcoming cyber security conferences and summits in Canada for 2017. We hope this will be helpful to you!

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The Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) recently released a report on the sustainability of trends in Silicon Valley. The question about whether Silicon Valley corporations, of all shapes and sizes, are or are not models of sustainability, is still up for debate. Though the CSE report does provide vital research and data on this very topic, with an aim to achieve a clear cut answer.

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On December 29, 2016, Department of Defense subcontractor Potomac Healthcare was notified about the jeopardizing of more than 11 gigabytes of private data for healthcare workers employed by the U.S. military's Special Operations Command. The compromised files were discovered by white hat hacker, Chris Vickery, who uncovered a flaw in an unprotected remote synchronization service. Upon his discovery, Vickery notified Potomac Healthcare about the insecurity of its data, which contained information dating back to 1988, and included names, locations, Social Security numbers, salaries and assignment units for psychologists, nurses and other Special Operations Command workers, some of which had top secret clearances.

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In an effort to assist our Canadian business, Giva has compiled a listing of upcoming 2017 healthcare IT conferences and summits. We hope this will be helpful to you!

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Consulting agency, Deloitte, is reporting that the healthcare industry will begin to heavily implement Blockchain technology in 2017. Despite the uneven understanding of Blockchain, its possibilities as a distributed database are garnering popularity and adoption from multiple fields. The technology offers advanced security and data storage, as well as interoperability, which makes it an asset in the healthcare field. Health and life sciences are primed to be the two leading industries in Blockchain deployment going forward this year, with financing, manufacturing, media, and telecom services expected to follow suit.

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In an effort to assist our Canadian business, Giva has compiled a listing of upcoming 2017 conferences and summits. We hope this will be helpful to you!

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established in the U.S. in 1996 to protect an individual's personal health care information. Healthcare institutions are required to meet all standards and comply with the appropriate security measures in order to safeguard patient data. These standards became enforceable by law on 21 April, 2005.

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