Cisco address healthcare PCI compliance

Expanding on the success of its Payment Card Industry for Retail Solution, Cisco introduced its first validated architecture to address PCI compliance in healthcare settings, states Market Watch.

Specifically, the PCI Data Security Standard is providing healthcare organisations with a prescriptive model for how to safeguard patient financial transaction data and other personally identifiable information that is captured and processed within a healthcare facility or settings such as retail pharmacies.

The PCI for Healthcare Solution offers design and implementation guidance to protect credit card, sensitive patient demographic, and employee information.

Dairyland Healthcare Solutions has appointed Jack Kane to its board of directors, effective immediately, states Market Watch.

Kane brings to Dairyland deep experience in healthcare technology, having spent 22 years at IDX Systems before the company was acquired by GE Healthcare in 2005 in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.

He served as the financial leader of IDX and helped lead growth from $16M to $600M in annual revenues. He was responsible for IDX's financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions activity, public reporting and analyst relations.

Park City Healthcare in Utah has chosen iMedica's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution, reports Market Watch.

Park City Healthcare is a 10-physician practice in Utah's premier ski resort city. Because of the heavy influx of out-of-state skiers every winter, the practice experiences a surge of urgent-care patients during ski season equal to what a practice of 20 to 25 physicians would see.

"iMedica is the one solution that could help our front office staff rapidly and accurately process new patient registration. It enables our physicians to complete documentation in the examining room for the wide variety of patients we see every day, especially during the height of the winter sports season," said Bill Pidwell, MD of Park City Healthcare.