Underscoring the danger of insecure network connections, hackers appear to be targeting TeamViewer - and the company is denying it. …

As the healthcare industry has moved from paper to electronic records for the past decade, hospitals have continuously had to meet increased federal regulati…

Q&A with Michele Higgins, PharmD, MBA Michele Higgins, PharmD, MBA, is the pharmacy informatics coordinator for Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Nebraska. Higgins’ experience, spanning over 20 years, includes implementing systems for automated dispensing cabinets, carousels, pharmacy information systems, bedside barcoding, and setting up a pharmacy department in a brand new facility with a new NICU population utilizing 100% CPOE. Her most recent project has been implementing electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) for providers across Nebraska Methodist Health System. Recently, Higgins spoke about her EPCS implementation experience and advice: …

During HIMSS 2016, I had the opportunity to talk to one of the true leaders in healthcare technology, Craig Richardville, Carolinas HealthCare Systems’ Senio…

Read the article to learn about the discussions of the reality of security breaches in healthcare, and outlined key lessons learned from the Hollywood Presbyterian ransomware attack.…

Even hospitals that follow strict rules and protocols run the risk of patient identification errors, the Healthcare Financial Management Association found in…

A look into the trends forecasted by the biggest influencers in the cybersecurity community - here's the top four for 2016.…

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…

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.…

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.…