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Hundreds of McKesson customers converged in Grapevine, Texas this past week to learn what their peers are doing and to get the latest product updates from McKesson. Infrastructure upgrades was a common theme this year for many of the attendees I spoke to, with virtualization in particular continuing to rise in priority. Many hospitals had partially or completely virtualized their data center, and some had even virtualized all their desktops.
Head over to the Imprivata booth #1070 to take a look at the tech preview of the joint development between Teradici and Imprivata. And just in case it’s too busy to get close, you can also see it at the VMware, Teradici, Dell and VCE stands. Yes, it’s that cool. While you’re there, ask Michelle for some sonic rocks – I hear they’re kind of fun...
Join us for an informative session on the “Do’s and Don’ts” of employee access management next Wednesday, June 24. Forrester Research’s Bill Nagel will lead the discussion on what organizations should do to improve security with strong authentication.
In addition, the session will discuss the pros and cons of various strong authenticationmethods, explain why a single point of authentication to the network is key to employee access and provide examples of a wide range of implementations via real-world case studies.
Just a quick post to congratulate OhioHealth's CTO Jim Lowder on being named to InfoWorld's CTO 25, a short list of visionaries recognized for their industry leadership and technological contributions. Welcome to the club.
Enacted into law in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes five sections detailing data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding protected health information (PHI). Failure to comply with HIPAA can result in civil and criminal penalties. If a healthcare organization is unaware that its practices led to a HIPAA violation, the minimum civil penalty is $100 per violation, with an annual maximum of $25,000 for repeat violations. The maximum civil penalty is $50,000 per violation with an annual maximum of $1.5 million.
Patient Lily Johnson lies in her hospital bed, waiting for Dr. Barlow to write her discharge orders. She is tired. Hospitals are exhausting places where it’s nearly impossible to get a good night’s sleep. Activity swirls around her but none of it seems meaningful to her. She thought she was going home today. Dr. Barlow had come in on his morning rounds and told her she could go home. But although she calls out to the nurses who pass by her door, she can’t get any definitive time. So she waits.
Before you read, catch up on Part 0: An IAAM system overview and Part 1: Who does what.
As a 700-bed healthcare system that provides care to patients in six states encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States, University of Utah Health’s patient population continues to grow annually – and so do the chances for medical records to be duplicated. To support their 1.1 million annual outpatient visits and 50,000 emergency room visits, University of Utah Health turned to Imprivata PatientSecure to fight patient misidentification and mitigate the costs associated with it.
If you’re a health system Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you have one over-arching element you deal with all the time: operational risk. It’s constant, and it’s across your entire solution stack.
Many of us at the Imprivata Lexington office are enjoying ballpark food today as we gear up to watch the Red Sox play Baltimore in the home opening game. Whether you’re a sports fan or an avid runner prepping for next week’s Boston Marathon, check out our Healthcare News Watch this week!
Today, we are following stories of how big data could save U.S. citizens as much as $450 billion, Health IT predictions for 2018 and innovative ways of using digital pens in the UK.
What are you reading this week?