Healthcare IT industry and API’s Don Rosenthal LinkedIn Profile My medical data should move with me as easily as my music or photo library…Part II There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface [...]
Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security of Health Information ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) has released a new guide for providers and their staff to help understand HIPAA privacy and security when it comes to electronic health records (EHRs) and meaningful use. “Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information” is a [...]
Delivering Interoperability in Healthcare Don Rosenthal LinkedIn Profile My medical data should move with me as easily as my music or photo library… I made this statement in a recent TweetChat on healthcare information technology. It spread like wildfire, retweet after retweet, around the world, reaching as far as Sweden, Japan, and Mumbai. Clearly, it [...]
e-Prescribing Program Penalties begin January 1, 2013 In 2008, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) established a five-year incentive program that began in 2009, to promote the adoption and use of electronic transmission of prescriptions (e-Prescribing). The Act also outlined a penalty phase from 2012 to 2014 for those who do not [...]
Nurses and Health IT Initiatives In 1954, 100 years after Florence Nightingale’s mission to Crimea, the first National Nurse Week was observed in October. In 1974, the International council of Nurses (ICN) proclaimed Florence Nightingale’s May 12th birthday as “International Nurse Day”. Then in 1982 the American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors formally acknowledged [...]
This week’s posts on Meaningful Use, HIPAA Security and PHI, HIE and more… Top 3 buzz words in Health IT Includes HIE HIE “the verb” – So like EMR and EHR, the industry just won’t embrace HIO and HIE. It doesn’t seem to matter that the definitions and standards have been set on these four [...]
5 Health IT Lists To End The Week We like lists and apparently the news cycle this week did too. Here’s a list of 5 lists (got that?) on trending Health IT topics: 9 Health IT Tools Patients Should Understand This gallery list of Health IT tools comes from InformationWeek and includes electronic health records, [...]
HIE, Patient Engagement and Project Management HIE “the verb” – So like EMR and EHR, the industry just won’t embrace HIO and HIE. It doesn’t seem to matter that the definitions and standards have been set on these four acronyms. They are all different and not interchangeable, read the standards and definitions here. But unlike [...]
Why Should You Care about Deidentified Information? Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Author: Keys to EMR/EHR Success According to the HIPAA Security and Privacy standard, your practice is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Protected Health Information. Unfortunately, a number of vendors and other parties want access to your information and are placing the confidentiality of [...]
ONC Extends Video Challenge Deadline to May 16 May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month and Stroke Awareness Month. According to HHS observing both in the same month educates you to control your BP and prevent strokes. Strokes are currently the 4th leading cause of death in the US. Hypertension (high BP) is known [...]
The Rapid Proliferation of Healthcare Apps and Health Information Exchange Consultant/Founder at HealthTechture Linkedin Profile This innovation explosion in healthcare-related smartphone applications via standards-based distributed platforms (Android, iOS, WindowsMobile) presents great opportunity, but is fraught with the same risk of information fragmentation and segmentation that has haunted the healthcare industry for years. Apps present an [...]
CMS Issues New Guidance on Multiple Locations and Meaningful Use If an Eligible Professional (EP), Eligible Hospital, or Critical Access Hospital (CAH) see patients in more than one location they will obviously be using multiple certified EHR technology. So just how should numerators and denominators be calculated for meaningful use objectives and measures? CMS has [...]
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