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Last week, I brought my 9-year-old son to the pediatrician for his annual physical.…

Yesterday, in an article on the release of new CDC guidelines for prescribing painkillers, which recommend that doctors first try ibuprofen and aspirin to treat pain, then prescribe only a three-day course of the highly addictive opioids, New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise wrote, “the recommendations are meant for primary care doctors, who prescribe about half of all opioids but often have little training in how to use them.”…

In honor of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we at Imprivata wanted to share a few tips on how positive pa…

This year at HIMSS16, we hosted a cybersecurity panel discussion in the Imprivata theater on "Protecting health information: thinking beyond cybersecurity." …

This week, at the HIMSS16 Conference & Exhibition (February 29-March 4, 2016 in Las Vegas), Todd Smith, CMI…

Learn how hospitals can address the growing patient identification crisis that’s threatening patient safety, EMPI integrity, and financial efficiency …

Discover how two-factor authentication can improve clinical workflows and safeguard hospitals against phishing attacks and other cybersecurity threats…

As healthcare providers continue to invest in electronic medical records, protecting patient identity and maintaining the integrity of patient records are their top priority. In a recent webinar hosted by The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), David Feldman, SVP and CMO at Hospitals Insurance Company (HIC), Jim Schwamb, former VP, Patient Financial Services at BayCare Health System in Clearwater, FL, and David Wiener, GM of Imprivata PatientSecure Products Group, highlighted the challenges posed by commonly practiced patient identification processes, and discussed best practices for positive patient identification to improve revenue cycle efficiency and patient safety.…

Three years ago, Imprivata set out to address one of the top concerns on every CIO’s to-do list: enabling quick, reliable, and secure communications for healthcare providers across the care continuum. We launched Imprivata Cortext in October 2012 as the healthcare industry’s first free HIPAA compliant text messaging solution, and today we’ve received perhaps the greatest validation to date that we’ve built a secure messaging solution that enables healthcare organizations to replace pagers and improve care coordination, inside and outside the hospital. …

Pearson Vue, a third-party certification manager, discovered malware on their Credential Manager System. Major clients, like Cisco, Oracle, and IBM react. …

Accurate patient matching is foundational to quality care but a recent survey from The American Health Information Management Society (AHIMA) shows that duplicate medical records still pose a major challenge for healthcare providers. Among the key findings from the survey of 815 health information management (HIM) professionals using 12 different EHR systems are:…

As the healthcare industry moves toward a preventative care model, technology is playing an increasingly critical role at all levels – from CIO, to clinician, to patient. To make new models of emerging, value-based care a reality, healthcare providers are working to improve the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care through electronic medical records (EMRs). …

From breaches to phishing scams, cyber-attacks targeting patient and payer data are getting more sophisticated by the day. …

Opiate abuse claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Massachusetts residents last year, yet Massachusetts, a historically progressive adopter of health information technology (HIT), has yet to adopt Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS), a critical part of the process for solving the prescription drug abuse crisis.…

In his New York Times op-ed, “How Doctors Helped Drive the Addiction Crisis, (Nov. 7, 2015),” Richard Friedman called for a sea-change within the medical profession to combat the growing addiction crisis in our country, calling for improved training and education for physicians.…

Do you know how many steps you’ve taken today? If so, you’re joining millions of Americans who are embracing mobile technology to improve their health. Healthcare providers aren’t among those millions, however, even though they desperately want to be.…

Proper patient identity management is increasingly ranked as one of the top priorities for mitigating healthcare risk, as inaccurate patient identification compromises the integrity of patient information, creating massive patient safety and financial risks for healthcare providers.…

Outdated communication technologies such as paging, fax, email, and phone calls delay the delivery of patient care, impact provider productivity, and reduce patient satisfaction. To solve these problems, Saint Mary’s Hospital in CT took a strategic approach to enable better communication, ease clinical workflows, and improve patient care. …

When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) introduced regulations for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) in 2010, many providers worried that EPCS’s strict security stipulations would disrupt their prescribing workflows. Since then, New York State’s groundbreaking I-STOP legislation and the public debate about mandating EPCS in other states, has driven innovations in health technology that drive EPCS adoption.…

Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) delivers a number of benefits. However, in order to enable EPCS, healthcare providers must meet DEA requirements that can be disruptive and cumbersome to implement.…