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33 CIO / HEALTH IT 10 Statistics on Chief Information Technology Officer Salary & Bonus By Anuja Vaidya I n the United States, the median annual sal- ary for a chief information technology offi- cer salary is $256,040, as of Dec. 28, 2016, according to Salary.com. Here are 10 statistics on chief information technology officer salary, as of January 2017. National average salary only 1. Bottom 10 percent: $171,610 2. 25th percentile: $211,846 3. 50th percentile: $256,040 4. 75th percentile: $310,970 5. Top 10 percent: $360,980 National average annual salary plus bonus 6. Bottom 10 percent: $185,122 7. 25th percentile: $251,990 8. 50th percentile: $325,435 9. 75th percentile: $421,432 10. Top 10 percent: $508,833 n Epic Named Overall Best in KLAS for 7th Consecutive Year By Erin Dietsche F or the seventh year in a row, Epic has been named the No. 1 Overall Software Suite in the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. The Verona, Wis.-based IT vendor also ranked as the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor and earned Best in KLAS awards in eight more cate- gories. Optimum Healthcare IT earned the top spot for Overall IT Services Firm and won one Best in KLAS award. Premier earned two Best in KLAS awards and won Overall Best in KLAS for Healthcare Man- agement Consulting Firm, which is a new category in this year's report. KLAS also added two new awards for payer solu- tions this year. Casenet TruCare was named Best in KLAS for Care Management Solutions. Verscend Quality Reporting was named Best in KLAS for Pay- er Quality Analytics and Reporting. In addition, Cerner won two Best in KLAS Awards. Meditech's 6.x platform earned the Best in KLAS for Community HIS award. It was also rated KLAS Community Leader for Patient Accounting & Pa- tient Management (Community Hospital). The annual report is based on customer feedback. "The Best in KLAS report celebrates and recog- nizes vendors who have made significant strides to improve healthcare while addressing changes like payment reform and the shift to population health," said KLAS President Adam Gale. n Report: 30% of Breaches Reported to HHS Can Be Attributed to Third Party Vendors By Erin Dietsche A new report from DataBreaches.net and Protenus found at least 30 percent of all breaches reported to HHS' public breach tool can be traced back to business associates and third party vendors. To create the report, titled "Third-Party Breaches in 2016 Pose Alarming Risk to Patient Data," DataBreaches.net amassed a list of healthcare breaches involving vendors or business associates. All the breaches occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Aug. 31, 2016 and were either reported to HHS or appeared in the media. Data- Breaches.net's compilation included more than 60 incidents. Here are three things to know about the report. 1. Approximately 30 percent of incidents on HHS' public breach tool involved a business associate or vendor. Using HHS' tool, DataBreaches.net initially found only 14 out of the 193 incidents — 7 percent — between January and August were coded as "business associate" for "covered entity type." But after recording the entries to incorporate information available from other sources, 57 out of the 193 incidents — 30 percent — in- volved a business associate or vendor. 2. Approximately 35 percent of breached records were caused by third party breaches. Based on an analysis of HHS' tool, breach- es due to third party vendors were associated with 27 percent more affected patients per incident than breaches originating at provid- ers or health plans. 3. Third party vendor breaches came from both insider threats and external threats. DataBreaches.net and Protenus noted the number of third party incidents involving insider threats was almost identical to the number of third party inci- dents involving external threats. n