Category: Security
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Videos of EHR Usability Suggestions
One of my readers sent me a link to a new site they’re developing called SaveTimeMD. This website was created as a response by an internist and EHR developer that was tired of seeing so many EHR usability problems. He decided that he’d take usability problems from users and make videos explaining how he’d resolve…
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Healthcare Big Data Use, Real Patient Engagement, and Practice Marketing
I use to do these a lot more and I think people enjoyed them. So, maybe I’ll start doing them again. It’s basically a short Twitter round up of some interesting tweets and often some pithy commentary about the tweets. Let me know what you think. 10% using #bigdata, 27% very early, the rest clueless?…
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Hospital CFO Fined $4.4 Million for Meaningful Use Fraud
Joe White, former CFO of the now-closed Shelby Regional Medical Center in Center, Texas, has agreed to pay back $4.4 million obtained through fraudulent attestation to meaningful use; he could face seven years in federal prison A former hospital CFO has been fined $4.4 million for defrauding the federal government through the directing of staff…
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Despite support, HIMSS notes lack of security in ONC interoperability standards advisory
Two groups have come out in support of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s 2015 Interoperability Standards Advisory, while offering comments on fixes that can be made to the draft. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/despite-support-himss-notes-lack-security-onc-interoperability-standards-ad/2015-05-04?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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The Next Major Healthcare Product – Care Management System
While meeting with a lot of people at HIMSS I started to think about what would be the next “must have” IT system that a healthcare organization would look at purchasing. When you look back at the history of IT purchases in healthcare, the Practice Management System (PMS or PM depending on your preference) was…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 4/30/15
One of the hot topics in the physician lounge this week was the provision in the recently-signed SGR bill that ends the use of Social Security numbers on Medicare cards. Medicare is authorized to spend $320 million over four years to make the change. The first $50 million is in the 2016 budget. Other interesting…
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Imprivata Makes Biometric-based Patient Engagement Acquisition
Imprivata, a Lexington, Mass.-based health IT security vendor, has acquired HT Systems, a Tampa, Fla.-based provider of palm-vein based biometric patient identification systems for approximately $19.1 million in cash at closing. Imprivata, a Lexington, Mass.-based health IT security vendor, has acquired HT Systems, a Tampa, Fla.-based provider of palm-vein based biometric patient identification systems for…
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13 Insights for Conquering Healthcare Challenges
I was recently asked to take part in a “From the Experts” series where they asked us to contribute an insight into how you conquer the healthcare challenges of the future. My response was, “The most valuable prep for #valuebasedcare is to create deep patient connections.” I think that’s still really good advice for healthcare…
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Great Meaningful Use and Eligible Providers Chat
I recently received an email from a regular reader, Dr. Mike, who owns a single specialty ortho group. In the email Dr. Mike talks about the challenges that Eligible Providers (EPs) are facing with meaningful use stage 2. He describes the story as falling on “deaf ears” at CMS and ONC. He also offered these…
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Two ambulance safety resources released for EMS professionals and organizations nationwide
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate today announced the release of two ambulance safety resources for emergency medical services (EMS) leaders, professionals and organizations nationwide. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150429/Two-ambulance-safety-resources-released-for-EMS-professionals-and-organizations-nationwide.aspx