Health IT Pulse
June 2012
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HIPAA audit process suddenly less mysterious as OCR releases template
- Executive Editor 29 Jun 2012 -
Patient data breach crisis outline can aid behavioral orgs
- TechTarget 26 Jun 2012 -
Prescription drug monitoring programs get a boost from health IT
- Senior Multimedia Producer 22 Jun 2012
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) - main enforcer of HIPAA patient data privacy and security laws - lifted the veil on its HIPAA audit process for ...
Although behavioral health clinics often have limited staff and resources, when a patient data breach strikes organization is the key to restore order. One way to do this is to create a breach and ...
The number of deaths in the U.S. related to prescription drug overdose has reached epidemic proportions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This emerging epidemic ...
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AHRQ develops Health IT Hazard Manager HIT safety reporting tool
- Executive Editor 20 Jun 2012 -
Points to keep in mind for meaningful use stage 1 as stage 2 looms
- TechTarget 19 Jun 2012 -
Helping caregivers, consumers understand patient portals
- TechTarget 14 Jun 2012 -
Halamka: What HIE implementation is going to take
- Executive Editor 13 Jun 2012 -
Survey lists top HIE vendors for 2012
12 Jun 2012 -
Using a team-based approach in health care to reduce lab errors
- Senior Multimedia Producer 11 Jun 2012 -
Of taxicabs, Square, drchrono and the future of iPad EHRs
- Executive Editor 07 Jun 2012
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced the completion of its Health IT Hazard Manager tool and extensive beta testing, which gives health care providers a method of ...
To the chagrin of listeners during a June 2012 National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) webinar on how to achieve meaningful use stage 1, Robert Anthony, health insurance specialist in the Office of ...
With patient engagement expected to play a key role in the meaningful use stage 2 final rule, patient portals could provide robust opportunities for the provider-patient dynamic, said speakers at ...
NORWOOD, MA - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, M.D. wears more than just that one hat: He's also co-chair of the ONC's HIT Standards Committee and the chair of the New England ...
By Greg McInerney, Editorial Assistant The Florida-based research company Black Book released its 2012 State of the Enterprise Healthcare Information Exchange Industry report, ranking the top ...
Despite what "The Non-Fat Yogurt" episode of Seinfeld would have us believe, the majority of lab errors in the health care industry do not actually occur in the lab. Errors can happen any time ...
Earlier this week in Washington D.C. after a long day at Datapalooza, colleague Jenny Laurello and I needed to grab separate cabs to return to our respective hotels. We both needed ones that ...
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More health IT initiatives spur change management problems
- TechTarget 05 Jun 2012 -
Wyoming Medicaid providers get free EHR system from dept. of health
- Senior Multimedia Producer 04 Jun 2012
Arnold Bennett, a prominent English novelist and journalist, once said: "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." Bennett could have been ...
The state of Wyoming has a low adoption rate for EHR systems: According to an ONC data brief from February 2012, the state's non-federal acute care hospitals reported an EHR adoption rate of 21%, ...