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As the healthcare industry continues to move away from paper and towards a digitized environment, the risk of cyberattacks increases.…

How does a nearly 2,000-bed healthcare system that sees an average of 15,000 people a day deal with the inefficiencies that come with prescribing controlled …

Massachusetts lawmakers recently passed legislation that requires providers and pharmacies to switch to electronic prescribing of opioid medication by 2020, …

Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 10–16 - is an annual event that brings…

“Inspire, equip, and develop leadership talent” Imprivata’s fifth Leadership Development Program (LDP) kicked off earlier this year.…

To round out VMworld 2011 I wrote another guest blog for SearchHealthIT summarizing why I think healthcare has made a significant move into desktop virtualization in the last 12 months. Now that’s done, what about the next big thing? What about the cloud? The feeling this year was health care is still three years away from public cloud adoption. Are you seeing the same thing in your hospital? Do the VMworld trends match your IT priorities over the next 12 months? I’d love to hear your comments……

Imprivata experienced a record-breaking year in 2010, punctuated by several prestigious awards and first place ratings from leading industry organizations. These honors underscore our dedication to providing customers and partners with exceptional technology and services, and help to further define Imprivata as the leader in single sign-on (SSO) and access management. We are extremely proud of these accolades, and wanted to share with you a few of the high points from 2010...…

A nonprofit organization recently reported, over the last five years more than 45 million U.S. electronic health records (EHRs) were either lost or stolen by insiders and/or outsiders. How do we reconcile the absolute need of timely information access critical to patient welfare, while simultaneously protecting a patient’s right to privacy as granted by HIPAA and HITECH?…

This week, Computerworld announced the honorees for its annual Premier IT Leaders awards program, and we’d like to congratulate Imprivata customer Bill McQuaid of Parkview Adventist Medical Center for making the 2010 list! Bill was recognized for his innovative approach to electronic medical records (EMR) and the significant contribution he has made to Parkview’s healthcare IT infrastructure.…

Congratulations to Imprivata customer Parkview Adventist Medical Center for recently earning the HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation! HIMSS Analytics highlights the Stage 6 award as recognition for hospitals that have made significant investments in healthcare IT and as well as implementing paperless medical records. This is a remarkable achievement for Parkview, considering that they’re one of only 42 hospitals out of 5,166 in the US to attain this level.…

The discussion on desktop virtualization, or hosted virtual desktop, is heating up. Some view it as futuristic. Others say it is throwback to the world of mainframe computing. With economic concerns forcing businesses to take a hard look at expenses across the enterprise, however, there are many reasons this is such a hot topic.…

Managing the Increasing Vulnerability of a Decentralized Workforce More and more companies today are enabling employees and partners to work remotely, accessing networks, data and applications from just about anywhere to be productive. Being productive is good. Behaving less responsibly is not. I was reading that Cisco Systems commissioned a survey to examine the security behavior of remote workers, and I found some of the findings startling -- here's a few that stood out for me:…

A great day at the Imprivata stand today.…

BRANDING IS A TRIBUTE, NOT A VERB.…

The Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD is the site for this year's Siemens Innovations Conference.…

The European version of the Citrix Synergy event is currently being held in Barcelona S…

Dell’s Technology Partner Program is growing strong with over 100 certified partners and thousands of registered partners…

Earlier this week, Imprivata announced a program to enab…

Registration for Imprivata HealthCon 2014 (May 4-6 in Boston) is now open, and the event will feature more than 30 in-depth educational sessions covering a wide range of business, product and technology issues. …

Make a well-informed decision about which two-factor authentication modalities to introduce to your EPCS process: keep prescriber satisfaction in mind …