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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) should increase the use of electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), according to one of the 56 recommendations presented to President Donald Trump on Wednesday by The Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
We’re about to hit the virtual road out to San Francisco for VMworld 2010 next week, and are excited for the many activities and conversations that are lined up for our team at the event. If you’re going to the event, stop by booth #441 for a chat about securing user access in virtual desktop environments, or a demo of the integration of VMware View and Imprivata OneSign. We’d love to share ideas, perspectives and experiences onsite!
I thought I’d call out some things you may want to check out as you navigate through the clouds of people milling around the various sessions, booths and labs within the Moscone Center...
There’s a lot of discussion around meaningful use, its definition and how organizations can obtain the government incentives that recent legislation promises. However, in the dash for these types of healthcare IT investment reimbursements, one must not overlook the role of security risk in satisfying compliance requirements.
Since 1996, HIPAA has become one of the most important and highly publicized pieces of healthcare legislation in the United States. Over this time it has also become one of THE biggest topics of conversation within the healthcare and security industries and with good reason-HIPAA involves two major issues, patients and privacy. What's truly amazing to me is that behind the scenes, one would naturally have to assume that the majority of healthcare organizations are being driven by the worry of the potential penalties that might be levied on them by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) for their failure to fully comply with HIPAA...
The Meaningful Use Analysis presented at the recent HIT Policy Committee Meeting indicates that 2,246 Eligible Professionals and 100 Hospitals have attested successfully. That’s a good start to EHR Adoption; with Stage 2 potentially delayed for these earlier adopters it will be interesting to see how many more attest to Meaningful Use in 2011.
You know that your text messages are stored by your cell phone provider, what you may not know is how much information and for how long. Well we now have that information-- Wired recently reported data from the Department of Justice that shows what is stored and for how long.
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In reviewing the final rule and all the many blogs/articles about it I got to thinking about what it must be like for a hospital having to face planning how they will meet Meaningful Use Stage 2—all the change in workflows required, technology that needs to be implemented. I’ve been following Meaningful Use since the original ARRA/HITECH bill was passed in 2009 and did a similar review of Stage 1 preliminary and final ruling when that was released--this just seems to be a bigger undertaking. So, I thought, how can I help? Well below are 5 tips if you are an eligible hospit
The 2014 version of the HIMSS Annual Conference kicks off today and we are excited about having our largest presence at HIMSS to date!
Metro Health is an integrated healthcare system with a regional 208-bed hospital, along with 25 clinics in Western Michigan. Metro Health was an early adopter of both EMR and CPOE technology. Using Epic, it links electronic medical records between the hospital, neighborhood outpatient centers and participating physicians, to provide better quality and consistency of care across its network.