Tips

Tips

• Develop a new PACS integration strategy to merge data

  Many health care organizations are exploring PACS integration for storage of their medical images.  Continue Reading

• New wave of mHealth apps bridge doctor-patient gap

  There are thousands of mHealth apps for Apple users. Read more in-depth about a few of them.  Continue Reading

• CIO: Pay physician testers, accelerate CPOE meaningful use compliance

  Physicians don't want to be on-the-job beta testers of CPOE meaningful use compliance. So, pay them to do it off-hours.  Continue Reading

• EHR usability testing key to clinician buy-in, meaningful use

  EHR usability testing can predict physician buy-in and should inform vendor selection, application configuration or software design.  Continue Reading

• Migrating medical records to the cloud heeds secure storage security concerns

  The health care data tsunami, and an increase in breaches, lead IT managers to consider cloud storage security concerns.  Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka, on writing a HIPAA-friendly BYOD policy

  Tablets, smartphones and laptops employees bring in can be secured through a thoughtful combination of BYOD policy and technology controls.  Continue Reading

• Providers must consider security of cloud analytics systems

  Cloud analytics systems provide the scalability and low cost providers need, but providers must be aware of their vendor's security offerings.  Continue Reading

• Tune up privacy compliance for coming federal HIPAA audits

  As OCR wraps up the first phase of its HIPAA audit program, health care providers at AHIMA 2012 begin to see how they will work.  Continue Reading

• HIPAA compliance takes patient, employee and vendor follow up

  Making HIPAA compliance a priority, not a barrier in health care involves policies that educate patients, providers, and vendors, at AHIMA 2012.  Continue Reading

• IT managers should consider several factors for long-term data storage

  The volume of a health care organization's data grows exponentially over time. Measures must be taken to keep long-term data from outgrowing the organization's IT infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Tip: Best practices for implementing EHR

  Without proper management, an EHR implementation may quickly run off the rails. Health care leaders offer tips for keeping the train on the tracks.  Continue Reading

• New mHealth technology brings HIPAA compliance vulnerabilities

  CIOs should brace themselves as mHealth technology such as medical devices, telemedicine, BYOD and MBAN all require new HIPAA compliance strategies.  Continue Reading

• Use these strategies to complete your required HIPAA risk analysis

  Federal HIPAA risk analysis guidance -- which also affects meaningful use compliance -- can be broad and vague. In order to ensure compliance, providers may need some help.  Continue Reading

• HIT managers tackle hospital wireless implementation challenges

  A group of experts offers hospitals wireless networking implementation tips.  Continue Reading

• Nuance CMIO: Free Dragon Dictation iPhone app isn't for patient data

  Like Apple collects Siri data, Nuance collects Dragon Dictation speech data. In Nuance's case it's to "tune, enhance and improve" speech recognition.  Continue Reading