Tag: ehr
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CNA: Sutter’s New EMR System Has Disrupted Patient Care
Introduction of a new electronic medical records (EMR) system at Sutter corporation East Bay hospitals has produced multiple problems with safe care delivery that has put patients at risk, charged the California Nurses Association (CNA). Introduction of a new electronic medical records (EMR) system at Sutter corporation East Bay hospitals has produced multiple problems with…
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10 Things that Every HIT Company Needs to Know to Prepare for the September 23 HIPAA Final Rule Compliance Date
On January 25, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services published new regulations that dramatically extend the reach of federal healthcare privacy and security law to a vast array of companies that do business with the healthcare industry, including many HIT companies. The long-awaited final omnibus regulations (the “Final…
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ONC disaster-prep partnership a no-brainer
Last summer, a report prepared for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT called for the use of health information exchanges to share clinical data during natural disasters. The report, created by the Southeast Regional Health IT and Health Information Exchange Collaboration (SERCH)–a consortium of six Southeastern states including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,…
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Doc performance tracking: Key to quality or Big Brother?
Though doctors fear that “some bean-counter will decide what performance is,” hospitals around the country increasingly are monitoring physician performance against established care goals,… read more Source: Doc performance tracking: Key to quality or Big Brother?
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Six hospital workers fired over possible snoop of Kim Kardashian’s medical records
Five workers and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Calif.) have been fired over privacy breaches involving patient medical records–and there is speculation that the patient was Kardashian, who gave birth to her daughter with rapper Kanye West in a birthing suite at the hospital on June 15, the Los Angeles Times reports.…
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Hospital workers fired after allegedly snooping into Kim Kardashian’s medical records
Five workers and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Calif.) have been fired over privacy breaches involving patient medical records–and there is speculation that the patient was Kardashian, who gave birth to her daughter with rapper Kanye West in a birthing suite at the hospital on June 15, the Los Angeles Times reports.…
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Telemedicine helps hospitals double revenue
Hospitals that used telemedicine technology and referred patients to children's facilities saw their revenue increase significantly, according to research published this month in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health. read more Source: Telemedicine helps hospitals double revenue
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Flexible transcriptionists not jobless in EHR era
There remains a “critical need” for transcriptionists, despite the adoption of electronic health records, so long as they can transition their expertise into health information management, according to a new survey released by the American Health Information Management Association and the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity. read more Source: Flexible transcriptionists not jobless in EHR…
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Health IT hiring remains a challenge
Healthcare IT remains a hot job market, according to a recently released survey by HIMSS Analytics. read more …read more Source: Health IT hiring remains a challenge
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Six fired for keeping up with Kardashian
Kim Kardashian's private medical records are finding themselves at the center of a HIPAA breach at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — where Kardashian recently gave birth — after the hospital fired six workers for snooping on more than a dozen patients' health records. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/kardashian-hipaa-breach-catastrophe