Becker's Hospital Review

58 CIO / HEALTH IT 81% of Healthcare Organizations Will Increase Cybersecurity Spending This Year By Erin Dietsche T he majority — 81 percent — of healthcare organizations in the United States said they plan to increase cybersecurity spend- ing in 2017, according to the "2017 ales Data reat Report, Healthcare Edition". e report is based on phone and online responses of 1,105 senior executives — many of whom have a major role in IT — in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. e report was issued by ales and 451 Research. Here are five other statistics from the report. 1. Approximately 90 percent of U.S. healthcare respondents feel vul- nerable to data threats. 2. Sixty percent of U.S. healthcare executives said their organization is deploying cloud, big data, Internet of ings or container environ- ments without proper security controls. 3. Around 57 percent of U.S. respondents said compliance was their organization's No. 1 spending impetus. 4. Sixty-five percent of U.S. healthcare executives said they plan to en- crypt data in the public cloud. 5. A number of U.S. healthcare organizations are also focused on net- work security (69 percent of respondents) and endpoint security (61 percent of respondents). n NIST: 'Copy and Paste' Function Can Lead to Errors in EHRs By Jessica Kim Cohen O veruse of the "copy and paste" function in EHRs may compromise the accuracy of patient data, according to a National Institute of Standards and Technology report. NIST — working with ECRI and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center — conducted a usability study of the "copy and paste" function in EHRs. Study participants, who were all physicians and nurses at Arlington, Va.-based Fors Marsh Group, reported con- cerns about the accuracy, attribution and relevance of information that has been copied and pasted from one medical record to another. "A common error in the use of 'copy and paste' function is that users forget to properly review and edit all of the information they have copied and pasted," the report notes. NIST suggests two main recommendations to address these issues: Provide a mechanism to make "copy and paste" material easily identifiable, so that providers are aware this infor- mation has been reused Ensure the source material is noted, so that clinicians are aware of the origin of this information, along with who has copied and edited it n Which Cities Have the Happiest CIOs? By Erin Dietsche A new survey from Robert Half Technology outlined the 10 cities in America with the highest job satisfaction rates among CIOs. Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, surveyed more than 2,500 CIOs in 25 metropolitan areas around the United States. Respondents ranked their overall job satisfac- tion on a 10-point scale, with 10 being the highest. Here are the 10 cities with the happiest CIOs, according to the survey. 1. Miami 2. Boston 3. Des Moines, Iowa 4. Indianapolis 5. Cincinnati 6. Minneapolis 7. Raleigh, N.C. 8. Salt Lake City 9. Dallas 10. San Francisco A separate study from Robert Half, Robert Half Technolo- gy's parent company, found technology professionals rated three factors among the biggest drivers of job satisfaction: pride in their organization, feeling appreciated and interest in their work. The study was conducted among more than 12,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada. n

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