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At this year’s annual HIMSS conference, held last month in Orlando, Florida, we joined more than 45,000 professionals from across the globe to showcase innovation and collaboration in the health IT industry.
Drivers such as HIPAA compliance, general PHI privacy, and concerns around unauthorized use have led to increased regulations for medical device security. While healthcare organizations look to implement critical security measures for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) components, such as medical devices, it’s important to do so in a way that does not impede clinical productivity.
As the nation’s opioid epidemic grows, technology continues to play an increasing role in combatting the crisis. Joining the ranks of Maine and New York, Virginia has now mandated electronic prescribing for opioid medication in an effort to save lives and reduce the fraud and abuse associated with prescription painkillers.
Technology in healthcare is in a state of flux. It is evolving, changing, and growing, encouraging providers and clinicians to adapt along with it. A number of emerging challenges can often make this transition more complicated than it needs to be, and can leave healthcare organizations struggling to balance security and convenience.
In a recent webinar, we discussed the major challenges that providers and clinicians face in 2019. Here’s a quick recap:
The digitization of healthcare has allowed healthcare organizations to utilize robust technology such as medical devices to help improve both patient care and provider experiences across the entire care continuum. Today, medical devices can track and monitor patient stats, provide diagnostic information, help ensure lifesaving care delivery, and even make recommendations on treatment and clinical decision support, all while communicating directly with healthcare IT systems to ensure more complete and accurate patient medical records.
National Health Information Technology Week (#NHITweek) is taking place this week, September 26-30, 2016. For more than a decade, I had the pleasure and honor of serving as an IT senior leader for hospital systems in the Dallas area as a Chief Information Officer and a Chief Technology Officer. During my tenure it became quickly apparent the massive role that Health IT plays in positive patient outcomes and how crucial it is for the technology to really work for the clinicians.
Hospitals in New York are currently working together to eliminate medical errors and improve clinical outcomes with new cutting-edge technology in place.
As part of our continued efforts to improve patient safety, Imprivata is excited to announce that we’ve joined ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety. The partnership leverages the expertise of health IT developers, patient safety organizations, healthcare providers, policymakers, and a number of other patient representation groups to proactively address patient safety issues.
In this “30 Questions” video, Imprivata Senior Vice President of Product Management, Barbara Dumery, is in the spotlight. In this video, Barbara candidly answers 30 random questions about her personal and professional life including her passions for watercolor painting, music, and working in healthcare.
VMworld was markedly different from a healthcare IT point of view this year. I wrote a guest blog for HealthITExchange summarizing a few of my thoughts which you can find here. Were you at VMworld this year? What was your impression?