Healthcare has the reputation of being highly resistant to change, that paper based systems are the best solution and that clinicians will simply not use any replacement. Why else would a hospital have to prove that they are meaningfully using new technology in order to receive the HITECH funding? Couldn’t we just trust them? So who’d have thunk it that in a survey of 477 IT professionals across multiple industries, it’s healthcare that are leading the way in the deployment of desktop virtualization!…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced new rules surrounding health information privacy and data security that is important for everyone involved in healthcare IT (HIT) to understand.
By now, you’ve likely seen these rules, however the Healthcare IT Consultant blog has a nice synopsis of the news that drills down into the aspects most relevant for those in the Imprivata community. Pulling the key points from that blog and summarizing the primary requirements of the rules, here are some things to consider...…
Greetings from the Eighteenth National HIPAA Summit in Washington, DC! It’s turned out to be an interesting event pulling in an array of people as it is co-located with the National Health IT Summit for Government Leaders, the National Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit and the International mHealth Networking and Web Conference.
Mid-way through the week-long event, there are some notable highlights from the conversations I’m having, and from the chatter on the floor and the breakout rooms. In no particular order...…
In February 2009, the Obama administration announced that $2.0 billion in grant money will be made available to help hospitals and other health care providers transition to electronic health records (EHR). This past Monday, the White House took a big step and launched the first of two grant programs under the HITECH act which lays the groundwork for EHR.…
We've found that the best resource for better understanding how to solve employee access management are our customers. So over the past week or so, as a few of our customers have shared details of their OneSign experiences, I thought you may want to hear what some of them are saying and doing...…
Recently, according to a Federal Computer Week article, the Drug Enforcement Administration proposed rules to allow e-Prescribing of controlled substances, such as painkillers and stimulants. The proposed rules require doctors to use two forms of identification for each transmission of e-Prescriptions for controlled substances in addition to an annual audit of each system by a certified public accountancy. Under current rules, doctors may use e-Prescribing for most prescriptions but must sign a written prescription for Schedule II controlled substances, such as Nembutal, OxyContin and opium. The DEA rule, if it becomes final, would allow doctors to use the same system for generating and transmitting all prescriptions.…
To paraphrase Princess Leia, ‘the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.' The same can be said in trying to manage identities in today's enterprise. A number of weeks back, I got into a discussion with the 451Group's Steve Coplan about this very topic: the chaos of identities.…
How do you implement desktop virtualization in a way that speeds care provider adoption and enhances patient care? Combine strong authentication and si…
It’s tough to remember a time before your bank had an automated teller machine (ATM) or when you couldn’t check your bank account online, because it was over…
When asked about the advantages of the OneSign Connector for Epic, I usually mention the pass-through authentication where the providers never see the Epic log in screen, the Epic Only mode when you want to optimize speed into Epic over other applications, and signing authentication with the flip of a couple of switches in Epic. But when we found out that a half dozen of our customers were moving quickly to the 2012 version of Epic…
Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) is urgently needed: 50% of prescribers don't check prescription drug monitoring program databases.…
Interest in electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) continues to increase as hospitals and health systems across the U.S. look for technology solutions to reduce the risk of altered, stolen or fraudulent prescriptions, improve patient safety and satisfaction, and reduce prescription errors and inaccuracies.…
To be effective in healthcare, it is critical that patient information is accurate, secure, and connected to the right patient. But manual patient identification commonly used as the first step in the care delivery process is often riddled with errors and issues that contribute to increasing medical identity theft, as the Wall Street Journal wrote earlier this month.
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