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Last week I attended the AHA Health Forum Leadership Summit in San Francisco. Attended by 1,500 executives from hospitals across the US, the conference included keynotes and breakout sessions on a wide-range of key topics including Meaningful Use, new business models to achieve financial sustainability and key strategies for clinical care coordination.
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It was with great regret that I canceled my trip to Healthport’s first HIM Educational Summit earlier this week. (A rampant stomach bug claimed me as the last victim in our family of four, and so I thought my healthcare conference colleagues would, in fact, appreciate my absence.) I had been scheduled to moderate a discussion on the exchange of personal health information within an accountable care organization (ACO) – a topic that I thought I knew a lot about, until I began researching the subject.
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Teradici, the developer of the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol, will showcase its full range of desktop virtualization solutions, as well as its joint solution with Imprivata, at the VMware User Group in Indianapolis on July 26. Teradici PCoIP solutions provide the unique remote display protocol that is essential to the performance of all VMware View deployments. In addition to demonstrations of the Teradici APEX 2800 server offload card, Teradici will also be showcasing its joint solution with Imprivata.
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Some 100 companies and organizations have been named to Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 2012. The recognition program, now in its fifth year, honors workplaces in healthcare that enable employees to perform at their optimum level to provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products and services.
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Although the DEA Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) ruling came out in 2010 many healthcare organizations are just now, in mid-2012, starting to look at what they need to do to roll it out. Why is that? Well the ruling was just that, a ruling, many factors had to be in place by EMR/e-Prescribing vendors, pharmacy vendors, Surescripts and providers themselves.
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This Citrix whitepaper explains how the integrated deployment of Citrix XenDesktop and Imprivata OneSign streamlines clinical workflow with No Click Access® to roaming desktops. Security and compliance are ‘built into’ the desktop environment rather than imposed on the care provider. The result is a healthcare environment that reclaims time and focus from technology so it’s available for patient care.
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Meraz Nasir, director of technology services at Pompton Plains, N.J.-based Chilton Hospital, discussed how his hospital went about implementing single sign-on technology. In this Q&A, he covers why his organization decided to implement single sign-on, how the implementation went, and shares some of the lessons he learned throughout the process.
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Earlier this month, the Ponemon Institute released a study titled “The Economic & Productivity Impact of IT Security on Healthcare” that aims to quantify the impact that the use of pagers and other outdated communication technologies has on healthcare. The research reveals that communication in healthcare lags behind other industries, in large part because of the perceived security and compliance risks associated with the use of smartphones and other modern technologies.