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As part of their Signature Learning Series, The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently featured a presentation from Mahaska Health Partnership, “Secure PHI and Ensure Clinician Productivity Using Lean.”Through the use of Lean practices, the team at Mahaska Health Partnership, a 25-bed critical access hospital, applied Lean time savings study practices to determine the true impact that securing PHI would have on clinician productivity—in terms of real minutes translated into cost.
Addressing the patient matching problem a top priority, impacts are high-risk and need attentionLexington, MA – May 9, 2018 – Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today released data from a survey of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) at leading healthcare organizations, revealing that CIOs rate patient matching among their highest priorities but remain surprisingly unaware of the magnitude of the patient matching problem – both within their own institutions and between partner organizations.
Webinar to Focus on Driving EMR Adoption and Increasing IT Security in Hospitals
Mistakes can happen. But, in healthcare, how often do medical errors related to patient misidentification occur and at what cost? According to recent research by ECRI and other organizations, an alarmingly high percentage of medical errors stem from wrong patient identification and 9% of those errors result in a wide range of negative patient outcomes from temporary patient harm to actual loss of life. For patients, it’s a gamble they neither intend – nor want – to make.
Originally posted: May, 2017
On Wednesday, November 10th at 1:00 PM EST, I am fortunate to host Kristi Roose, IT director at Mahaska Health Partnership on a webinar where Kristi will share her insights on how to successfully deploy an EMR and help satisfy the requirements of meaningful use and the privacy and security standards embedded in the HITECH Act.
Imprivata announces the results of its Fifth Annual IT Trends Survey, including findings that single sign-on, virtual desktops, and remote access are the top three enablers for engaging physicians to adopt CPOE. Speaking of Imprivata, here’s their latest cartoon (insert your own orthopedist joke here).
We believe a new report featuring recommendations by Gartner analyst Barry Runyon calls on healthcare provider CIOs to evaluate identity biometrics to help their organizations reduce patient identification errors. Runyon points to biometrics as a key tool in combatting patient misidentification and minimizing problems that can lead to preventable medical errors, increased costs, and operational inefficiencies.