Author: trident500
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The Top Five EHR Implementation And Integration Imperatives
Since the push to deploy electronic health records (EHRs) began in earnest with passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, health IT vendors have encountered and overcome many organizational and technical challenges to implement complex repositories of clinical and administrative data. This being the case, health systems seeking to…
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Dear Washington Post: Patients privacy rights are no joke
I read with dismay last week’s article by well known Washington Post business columnist Michelle Singletary, who questioned whether several hospital employees should have been fired by a hospital in New Zealand for inappropriately accessing the hospital’s electronic health record to view the information of a patient with a “titillating” medical emergency, and then sharing the records…
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The Direct Evolution: Why It Will Change How You Communicate
What is Direct? Does it replace a HIE? Is it redundant with HL7 or XDS functionality? If I use email rather than Direct am I out of compliance with HIPAA? Source: The Direct Evolution: Why It Will Change How You Communicate
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Utah health data breach: A lesson in the myriad benefits of prevention
Al Pascual, a senior analyst of security, risk and fraud at Javelin Strategy & Research, analyzed the March 2012 data breach that impacted roughly 780,000 for a new report due out later this month. He recently talked with FierceHealthIT about the incident. read more
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The Toad and the Snake
Over the weekend while working in the orchard, I found a small garter snake trying to eat an enormous toad, pictured above. Did the toad not realize that by wriggling its feet, it could easily escape? Was the toad unaware of the impending threat? Might the toad have given up and thought that the end…
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ONC official: Criticism of MU program interoperability ‘misguided’
Criticism of the current lack of focus on interoperability of electronic health record systmes in the Meaningful Use program is “misguided,” according to Judy Murphy, deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, who spoke last week at a symposium in Philadelphia. read more
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Anesthesiologists ask for MU hardship, criteria exemptions
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has asked the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to maintain the hardship exemption for anesthesiologists beyond Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program, and to exempt anesthesiologists from some of the Stage 2 attestation criteria. read more
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EHR Benefit – Eliminate Staff
It’s time for the next installment in my series of posts looking at the long list of EHR benefits . Eliminate Staff The idea of eliminating staff is a really hard one to talk about. Often the staff in a medical office becomes a family and so it’s really hard to think about losing a…
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Hope Hospice Notifies More Than 800 Patients of Data Breach
Officials at the New Braunfels, Tx.-based Hope Hospice have notified 818 patients that through a routine internal compliance audit on February 25, 2013, it discovered a potential security breach after finding an employee had e-mailed a report of recent referral and admission activity to themselves via an unsecured channel on December 27, 2012 and February…
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Trinity taking leap of faith toward cloud
Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.