Tag: Health IT
-
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?
-
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.…
-
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.…
-
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
-
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…
-
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
-
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
-
Yale Benefits from Integration of Epic, Clinical Trial Management System
An issue that continues to plague academic medical centers is the lack of interoperability between electronic health record systems and specialized clinical trial management software. Without interoperability, teams running trials often have to double-enter data into the two systems. An issue that continues to plague academic medical centers is the lack of interoperability between electronic…
-
Stanford Mobile Health 2012 – Day 1 – Simplicity Changes Behavior
Simplicity Changes Behavior Session Mobile Health at Stanford 2012 – Day 1 (May 16, 2012) The line up: BJ Fogg, Stanford Bernie Knobbe, Yahoo! Reman Child, O… Video Rating: 5 / 5
-
Viewpoints: GOP should focus on fixing health law; Bishops refuse to accept victory
Los Angeles Times: It’s Time To Focus On Fixing The Affordable Care Act, Not Gutting ItConservatives have married their political fortunes to the notion that Obamacare is a catastrophe and must be discarded in its entirety -; even though some of the signature elements of the law, such as a requirement that most people be…