Author: trident500
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Commencement at Columbia University
I recently spoke at Columbia University to the graduates of their healthcare IT certificate program. I used these slides. I started with an overview of my top 10 buzzwords for 2013 describing a strategy for each of them: Secure and Compliant – BIDMC has a multi-million dollar security enhancement program with 14 work streams Hosted…
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Protect yourself from Shadow IT, embrace “good enough for HIPAA” secure cloud services like Box and Skydrive
It’s a common misconception that if executives at hospitals or practices don’t have time to deliver sophisticated IT solutions to their users that users will just wait patiently and hope that solutions will arrive someday. However, there is a larger Shadow IT movement in many clinical settings than senior executives are willing to admit. Given…
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Mount Sinai Announces Personalized Medicine Platform
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City-based 1,171 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility, has announced it's creating a new data management and analysis platform that will be able to communicate with the organization’s electronic health record. The platform, Mount Sinai says, will be able to give doctors real-time therapeutic and diagnostic guidance…
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ONC awards grants for HIE governance efforts
True to its promise, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has provided more support toward health information exchange development, partnering with DirectTrust and the interoperability workgroup of the New York eHealth Collaborative to foster HIE governance and operational development. read more
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$3 million prize awaits in health IT competition
A California independent practice association has announced the close to new entrants in its two-year, $3 million Big Data analytic software competition.
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HIT Policy Committee approves info exchange security recommendations
The health IT industry may have a better idea of how health information exchanges can protect patient data after ONC's Health IT Policy Committee approved several recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team last week. read more
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Breach Notification: Omnibus Style
Under the Omnibus Rule, breach notification received more than just a face-lift. The new rule went into effect on March 26, 2013 so Covered Entities and Business Associates alike should have updated their incident response and notification procedures in preparation. Under the Omnibus Rule, breach notification received more than just a face-lift. The new rule…
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Email vs Text for Healthcare Communication
The idea of improving communication in healthcare is always a hot one. For fear of HIPAA and other factors, healthcare seems to lag behind when adopting the latest communication technologies. The most simple examples are email and text message. Both are simple and widely adopted communication technologies and most in healthcare are afraid to use…
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CMS offers tip sheet on MU, quality measures
As the Oct. 1 start date nears for meeting Stage 2 of the meaningful-use criteria for hospitals in the federal electronic health-record incentive program, the CMS has posted a one-page tip sheet for providers on the reporting of clinical quality…
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Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system.