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On Feb. 17, 2009, the HITECH Act was enacted, giving birth to new tiered civil monetary penalties for data breach violations, new powers to state attorney generals (AGs) for class-action pursuit and new guidelines for technology and methodologies that render data “unusable, unreadable or indecipherable.” While we previously covered how HITECH will make available $2.0 billion in grant money for organizations to transition to electronic medical records (EMRs) and deploy appropriate security measures, the time is now upon us for full compliance. Otherwise, organizations risk significant penalties from the department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/ Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The Healthcare & Technology blog has a good, quick post with some useful resources...
Day 2 is now in full swing at VMworld 2011. We had a very busy Day 1 yesterday. While the show attendance was clearly impacted by Irene, it sure feels like there are 15,000+ VMworld attendees here in sunny Vegas.
Catching up on some news from last week and I thought Tim Greene’s article in Network World was an interesting piece on the Russian spy ring story that is currently grabbing headlines. One of the most glaring errors made by one of the spy defendants was leaving an imposing 27-character password written on a piece of paper that law enforcement officers found while searching a suspect's home. They used the password to crack open a treasure trove of more than 100 text files containing covert messages used to further the investigation.
Secure Communications solutions are needed to solve healthcare's inefficient communications problems: secure communications promise improved patient care.
Security, usability, and interoperability need to be baked into health apps for patients to reap their full benefits. Otherwise, they won't enhance care
Learn how hospitals can address the growing patient identification crisis that’s threatening patient safety, EMPI integrity, and financial efficiency
Striking that ‘just right’ balance between information access and security seems like a tougher goal than ever for healthcare IT pros. On one hand, they’re tasked with delivering fast, seamless and increasingly mobile access to patient information for doctors, nurses and other clinicians. Meanwhile, they’re dealing with budget pressures, regulatory changes and the need to accommodate some very different clinical workflows.
Monday always feels like a day of catch-up, doesn’t it? Digging out of the weekend’s emails, revisiting goals, resetting weekly priorities and it seems that 90% of meetings are held on Mondays. Not to mention there are 48 hours of industry news to catch up on. If the digital and social news era have taught us anything, it’s the news cycle never rests.
Welcome to this week’s Imprivata Healthcare News Watch!
Today, we are reading stories about how long it will take for Big Data to deliver value, Box’s first steps into healthcare data sharing and an interview with security expert Bill Fox on ACOs’ security concerns.
What are you reading today?
As healthcare transitions from a fee-for-service to a pay-for-performance model to improve patient engagement and outcomes, the future of care delivery for organizations centers on a network of IP-connected computers, sensors, and devices through which doctors, nurses, and patients can securely share information. In this HIMSS industry solutions and healthcare IT news webinar, David Bratt, Director of Technology Services at Miami’s Children’s Health System, Matt Crawford, Director of Solutions Marketing at Citrix, and David Ting, Imprivata’s co-founder and CTO, talk about how the “Internet of (Healthcare) Things” (IoHT) minimizes the need for direct patient-physician interaction while allowing providers to deliver more personalized treatments, using patient health information from wearables in a secure and reliable way.