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BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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7 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Engagement, Health Information Exchange, Incentives, Privacy, Security
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Server virtualization might have seen its heyday a few years ago in the general business world, but economics, space requirements in data centers and ease of disaster recovery are all combining to make a virtualized environment an attractive play in health care now.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Cloud, Security, Virtualization
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) recently launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, and is at work achieving its stated goals.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Security
Erica Carnevale, HealthWorks Collective
“Using the cloud requires turning over responsibility for data security and privacy to a third party—and that can be a concern for healthcare providers.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Imaging, Security
Joseph C. Kvedar, Sam Bierstock, Wall Street Journal
“Email has been so commonplace for so long that some people consider it nearly obsolete. But in the health-care profession, its use for communications between doctors and their patients is still controversial.
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): e-Mail, Liability, Patient-clinician communication, Privacy, Security, Trust
Michael F. Collins, Deborah C. Peel, Wall Street Journal
“As the U.S. invests billions of dollars to convert from paper-based medical records to electronic ones, has the time come to offer everyone a unique health-care identification number?
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Patient, Privacy, Security, Universal patient identifiers
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“While data security breaches at big healthcare organizations capture most of the media attention, small medical practices are actually more vulnerable to data losses and theft, according to a Kroll Fraud Solutions report cited in American Medical News.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Encryption, Physicians, Security
Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“To date, few hospital IT administrators have whole hog into supporting Apple devices, though many facilities are testing them out. Most testers have found that neither the smartphone nor the tablet work well as clinical data entry devices, and some have actually ended i-whatever pilots when doctors refused to use them.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Hospitals, Industry, Security, smartphone, tablet PC
Nina Moini, NBC2
“Medical charts at local hospitals are going paperless. The new system will streamline patient information and will save money, but will the records be secure?
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18 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Privacy, Security
Mobile Health Live
“The UK’s NHS has published guidance that warns staff not to store sensitive patient data on tablet devices. The advice is from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the body which looks after the organisation’s IT infrastructure. According to The Guardian, the CfH has published a good practice guide that says tablet technology is less secure than traditional alternatives.
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17 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Encryption, Security, tablet PC
Nicole Lewis, EBN
“Many hospitals experiencing electronic patient data growth can gain enormous benefits from cloud technology, which creates data storage efficiencies and can provide an alternative to costly storage infrastructure systems.
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Hospitals, Privacy, Security
aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“La tecnología de consumo ha avanzado mucho en los últimos años, mientras tanto los dispositivos sanitarios que usan los pacientes para el seguimiento de sus enfermedades parecen salidos de un recuerdo de hace 20 años.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Diabetes, mHealth, Security, Telemonitoring
Laura B. Smith, HIT Community
“Of the many features that cloud-based EHR systems tout (like removing paperwork and helping you achieve meaningful use), one of the most important is security. Most on-site EHRs do not prompt physicians to encrypt their data, for example, while it is common practice in the cloud.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Encryption, Privacy, Security
Baker DC, Bufka LF. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(6)
As technology advances, psychologists increasingly have the opportunity to engage with patients or other users of psychological services via less traditional methods. However, little guidance exists to prepare psychologists to navigate the legal, regulatory, reimbursement, and ethical issues that can arise when providing psychological services via technology.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Ethics, Legal, Mental Health, Privacy, Security, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Rick Kam, Government Health IT
“Forget the hospital dramas on TV. Our top 10 list of this year’s trends in healthcare privacy and security has excitement to rival any show.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Data, mHealth, Personal Health Information, Privacy, Security
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of physicians using smartphones has reached a near-saturation point. Meanwhile, the number of data breaches is going up.
Coincidence? Leading experts think not.
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19 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Security, smartphone
Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
“One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop along with it.
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19 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Security
La bitácora de Fran Sánchez Laguna
“En este caso habla de una pérdida mayor aún que un USB: habla de la pérdida de ordenadores completos con información importante sin cifrar. No penséis que es algo descabellado. En centros de cierto tamaño, si uno va con una bata diciendo que es de Informática, lo normal es que se le deje hacer de todo; hasta llevarse el ordenador si te dice que tiene que hacerle algo en el taller… ¿verdad?
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19 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tag(s): Security, USB
Chelsea Conaboy, Boston Globe
“Despite the challenge of getting new systems off the ground, it’s clear that electronic health records are a powerful tool. They could save the American health care system billions of dollars by reducing unnecessary tests.
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15 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Protection, Encryption, Privacy, Security
Xinghui Guo, Asia Pacific Futuregov
“The Hong Kong government yesterday (12 December 2011) launched a two-month long public consultation to solicit views on the legal, privacy and security framework for electronic health record (eHR) sharing.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Hong Kong | EHR: EHR, EHR Hong Kong | Tag(s): Legal, Privacy, Record Sharing, Security
