Tag: personal
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EHR and HIT News for May Day
Did you know that the earliest May Day celebrations date back to the pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries. Well I didn’t, but if Wikipedia says it then it must be true, right? If you’re interested the full article is…
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Anonymous research patients easily re-identified, Harvard researchers find
Researchers from the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University have shown how easy it is to identify and link anonymous participants in a public DNA study with their personal data. Professor Latanya… read more
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Healthcare Information At Risk: The Consumerization Of Mobile Devices
The consumerization of mobile devices, also known as bring your own device (BYOD), is a major trend affecting healthcare.
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Practice Fusion Launches Doctor Appointment/Review Portal for Patients
Practice Fusion, the San Francisco-based provider of free EHR software, is launching a site that will allow patients to book an appointment, read a review of a doctor, and view their personal health record.
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Bring-your-own-device practices by healthcare workers fraught with security risks
Nearly 89 percent of U.S. healthcare workers use their personal smartphones for work purposes, finds a Cisco partner network study . However, when it comes to security, the study found that 41 percent… read more
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OHSU Contacts 4,000 Surgery Patients After Data Breach
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is in the midst of contacting approximately 4,000 patients after a laptop containing some of their personal information was stolen. The laptop was taken during a burglary at an OHSU surgeon's vacation rental home while in Hawaii in late February. Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is in the…
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Meaningful Use Education Module: Transitions of Care
This meaningful use education module covers “transitions of care” from both a meaningful use and EHR technology certification perspective. It walks you through the requirements for the meaningful use “transitions of care” objective and measures as well as their relationship to EHR technology certification.
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The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Using Data Linkage and Cohort Designs to Create Data Synergy at MCHP
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has been called a "data-rich environment" (Roos et al. 2004). Indeed, the depth and breadth of the data justify this description – there are currently nearly 100 databases held in the Population Health Data Repository ("the Repository") at MCHP, with some containing data back to 1970. And the…