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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.
I know where I’ll be, at Imprivata HealthCon! The Imprivata HealthCon 2012 User Conference kicks off with an evening event on Tuesday, November 6th followed by two days of Healthcare IT sessions on topics such as EMR Adoption, HIPAA/HITECH compliance and Stage 2 Meaningful Use.
In New Medicare Card is just like other big changes CMS has made, right?, the scale of the change presented by MACRA’s New Medicare Card initiative was compared to other recent changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented. These included the introduction of the Medicare Part D program, and the rollout of the Medicaid expansion and The Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2014.
With the rise in adoption of new technology in the healthcare industry, robust, network-connected medical devices are rapidly becoming critical tools used during the course of patient care. According to a recent study by Research and Markets, the rapid growth of the medical device market will continue steadily (4.5% CAGR) over the next five years, and culminate in 2023 with over $409.5B in market value.
Earlier this month, the GAO (Government Accountability Office) released a report long-anticipated by Imprivata and those following commitments outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act. In that 2016 legislation, the Government promised to review efforts to match patients’ electronic health records across healthcare providers.