Imprivata’s Senior Vice President of Customer Experience brings extensive health IT experience to the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation

As a member of the CHIME Opioid Task Force, Imprivata proudly welcomed the recent publication of its much-anticipated Playbook designed to help senior healthcare IT executives, providers, and others better utilize information technology in the ongoing fight against the opioid epidemic.

There are so many good ideas in healthcare, but tragically so little time, resources, people, and money. Because of our limitations, not every project immediately gets invested in and there are also lots of projects that had their investments slowly run dry until they disappeared entirely. The true tragedy of all of this is that even though we don’t have the resources to effectively do what we need to, these projects cannot move forward without investments and often get left behind, all the while new projects keep on coming.

New study quantifies the clinical and financial value of single-sign on

Lexington, Mass.– July 17, 2019—Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today announced that CHRISTUS Health saved clinicians 49,057 hours per year — the equivalent of 4,088 12-hour shifts — by implementing Imprivata OneSign®, the leading healthcare enterprise single sign-on (SSO) and virtual desktop access platform, across 19 hospitals.

Chuck Christian, the longtime CIO at Good Samaritan Hospital, believes that health information exchanges have been getting a bad rap. Christian has been involved in HIE work for more than a decade — long before Meaningful Use was even on the radar, and he wants CIOs to realize that getting connected with data exchange can yield benefits that go beyond just qualifying for funds. In this interview, Christian talks about the state of HIE in Indiana, how his organization is leveraging HIEs to improve patient care, and the optimal role for CIOs when it comes to HIE initiatives.