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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:
News
As hospitals move to digitize records, they face a new threat, hackers. Recent attacks have forced some medical centers to pay ransom to regain access to their systems. While ransomware isn’t new, these attacks highlight hospital vulnerabilities. As Bertha Coombs reports from Boston, changes, however, are being made to prevent the next breach.
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During HIMSS 2016, I had the opportunity to talk to one of the true leaders in healthcare technology, Craig Richardville, Carolinas HealthCare Systems’ Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer who was recently named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS. Craig discuses a range of topics including interoperability and security challenges in healthcare, the government’s patient identification efforts, and Carolinas Healthcare Systems’ use of the palm vein biometric patient identity platform, Imprivata PatientSecure.
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Cambridge Health Alliance is one of many hospitals that has embraced health-care technology to improve patient care. Still, for doctors and nurses in this hospital network outside Boston, worrying about security when they input data into the system's computers requires a balancing act.
"You have the patient interaction, you have the computer, you have security and you're actually trying to think clinically about what to do next," explained Dr. Brian Herrick, chief medical information officer at Cambridge Health. "It has made things more difficult to interact with the patient."
Whitepaper
Despite the best intentions, healthcare organizations can struggle with consistently and reliably collecting precise patient information and matching individuals to their medical records. The consequences of patient misidentification and mismatching can be severe, ranging from medical errors to adverse effects on the bottom line. Patient misidentification also makes it difficult for organizations to track their costs and determine the total cost of care in risk-based arrangements.
Press
87% of healthcare staff are still able to access multiple devices and workstations concurrently putting patient records at risk
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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.
News
It’s been nearly a decade since the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) deployed a patient-matching biometric program that uses palm vein scanning. The company began with Fujitsu PalmSecure in 2007, and that has evolved in the market to Imprivata‘s PatientSecure. CHS even created the original cradle that holds the scanner so the palm is not touching it.