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Community Hospital Anderson, a part of Indiana’s Community Health Network, believes that positive patient identification is the foundation of accurate, quality care and patient safety.
The healthcare industry is undoubtedly facing serious security challenges. As evidence, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that more than 110 million patient health records were compromised in 2015. In addition, more than 80 percent of healthcare organizations fell victim to a cyberattack that compromised patient health records between 2014-2015. Given these circumstances, the need for effective two-factor authentication among healthcare organizations has never been more urgent.
Patients are also consumers. And they want the same convenience and speed of service from healthcare that they get today when banking or managing their personal business.
Coming out of HIMSS 2010, it was clear that patient data security was a chief concern, but so was the need for improved clinician workflows. For all the requirements driven by new laws and the stimulus bill, what was overlooked was the impact of security in the real-world hospital environment from a user perspective. Forcing someone to change habits and daily routines is difficult, if not impossible, to do. Therefore, it is integral to the successful adoption of these security endeavors that they be paired with improving workflow. If change makes people’s lives easier, it’s easier for them to embrace. It doesn’t need to be an either/or argument.
As the healthcare industry continues to move away from paper and towards a digitized environment, the risk of cyberattacks increases. Global ransomware attacks, such as WannaCry, have provided evidence that security continues to become a pressing issue in the industry.
I read a good article on FierceEMR recently surrounding a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey on electronic medical records (EMRs) that indicated that the secondary use of this information may be an organization’s greatest asset over the next five years. An overwhelming 76 percent of respondents agreed, and pointed to the abilities for mined data to decrease healthcare costs, predict public health trends and improve patient care. EMRs, with vendors such as Allscripts, NextGen and QuadraMed blazing the trail, have been a huge focal point of healthcare payers and providers, pharmaceutical companies and the general public with healthcare reform a primary platform of the Administration.
At HIMSS18, Imprivata’s Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Sean Kelly, sat down with CommonWell TV to discuss the way in which Imprivata helps healthcare organizations balance efficiency and convenience, and how our partnership with CommonWell Health Alliance is working to improve interoperability in the present healthcare setting.
At this year’s annual HIMSS conference, held last month in Orlando, Florida, we joined more than 45,000 professionals from across the globe to showcase innovation and collaboration in the health IT industry.
In healthcare, it sometimes seems there’s only one constant: change. This ever-shifting landscape makes it extremely difficult for healthcare organizations to meet the goals of managing identity and access to care – particularly amidst increasing pressure to simultaneously improve patient care and reduce costs.