Imprivata Healthcare Innovation Award Finalists Series Spotlight on: Sanford Health
Mae-ellen Gavin
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We are pleased to recognize our inaugural 2012 Healthcare Innovation Award finalists, including Catholic Health Partners, Johns Hopkins, Memorial Healthcare,…
HIMSS14 Takeaways: Hospitals Eyeing Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances
Anurag Juneja
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At HIMSS14, we had a number of in-depth conversations with IT leaders at hospitals and health systems from across the U.S. about their challenges, strategies and priorities for 2014 and beyond. One particular issue that is top-of-mind for many of the folks we talked to is electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS).…
Want to save $1.75 million a year? Replace your hospital’s pagers.
Inefficient communication costs the average U.S. hospital $1.75 million a year, according to the Ponemon Institute. But how can hospitals enhance communication efficiency while ensuring the safety of protected health information (PHI)?…
Patient identification problems are pervasive in healthcare: 3 key findings from AHIMA’s patient matching survey
Justyna Evlogiadis
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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 has moved from paper to electronic records for the past decade, hospitals have continuously had to meet increased federal re…
‘Reference Architecture’ guide helps customers implement Imprivata OneSign Single Sign-On with Epic systems
Joel Alcon
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We know how time-consuming it can be to identify various types of clinical workflows within a healthcare organization and then deploy technology securely wit…
Data breaches in healthcare are certainly not new. Most data breaches today occur when electronic patient information (known as "protected health information" or PHI in the HIPAA regulation) is stored unencrypted on a device that is lost or stolen. All of the data breach laws in effect today state that as long as the data or device are encrypted, there is no data breach and therefore no liability or legal remedy. So if it's that easy, why do the number of breaches in healthcare continue to grow at alarming rates?
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The Siemens show has been fantastic. What a great group of people, from Siemens and their customers, as well as all the other great Siemens partners that are participating. What are we hearing? Signing on to desktops and applications is extremely painful! Remembering all the different passwords, trying to type them in while a patient is waiting for you, the time it takes for the applications to load… We need to simplify access to EMR and hospital IT systems for our clinicians! For those that know Imprivata, and for those that have been introduced to us this week, the response has been consistent; We can simplify access saving clinicians 15 minutes per day and help drive EMR adoption.…
Catching up on some reading after a few weeks on the road, most notably at VMworld 2010, I read Joseph Goedert’s Health Data Management article on the Privacy and Security Tiger Team’s recommendations for privacy issues that were sent to The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The core recommendations focus on how to empower patient consent and how to ensure appropriate use and exchange of personal health information (PHI) by care givers and business associates – all in the name of good data stewardship – as ONC encourages adoption of healthcare IT.…
This year’s HIMSS was quite an active conference, with healthcare IT a national focal point with new legislation and stimulus funding being funneled into reform and modernization initiatives.
To kickoff the conference, Imprivata chief medical officer, Dr. Barry Chaiken, who is the current chair of HIMSS highlighted the need for healthcare IT solutions to drive positive industry change. Here are some pull-outs from an InformationWeek blog covering the event that capture the sentiment well...…
