Government Health IT | Privacy and Security

As more and more healthcare organizations broadly adopt EHRs and face unprecedented data growth, IT staff find it increasingly difficult to optimize data protection and disaster recovery processes. This webinar will discuss how hospitals overcome data protection challenges and get faster, more reliable backups and disaster recovery using disk backup with deduplication. St. Johns Riverside Hospital will share how the hospital cut backup times by 50%, increased retention from one week to three months, and restores data in seconds.

Solving Healthcare Compliance and eDiscovery with Intelligent, Adaptive and Converged Information Management

April 23, 2012 |

In this session, we will look at modern and adaptable strategies to the retention lifecycle of information that frees healthcare providers from the complexities of retaining and accessing data for the long term, while radically lowering business risk.

Secure Physician Mobile Access to Patient Data with Virtualization

April 11, 2012 |

Citrix is redefining IT for a new era in Healthcare. For the first time, you can watch a cardiologist who uses Citrix technology and see how Citrix empowers healthcare through virtual computing. See how easy it is to access clinical desktops from anywhere, securely order medications from any computer or device, access real-time info about patients in seconds, go mobile instantly with desktops that follow users, review real time ER caseloads & allocate resources remotely, enable HD face to face telemedicine, use Citrix HDX plug n play to support voice recognition devices to update patient records and secure patient health information (PHI) on devices.

Better Patient Care: Virtually There

April 11, 2012 |

This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment. Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on.

The State of EHR Adoption: On The Road to Improving Patient Safety

April 11, 2012 |

Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, EMR and EHR systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology. Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they're benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.

Fighting Healthcare Fraud with Public Records and Network Analytics

April 4, 2012 |

Alan Joch

Over 2,500 state and federal law enforcement officials have long relied on the Thomson Reuters CLEAR public-record databases and network analytics to fight fraud. These same resources can also be a powerful tool for healthcare fraud investigators. The discussion on this webinar will explore ways in which public records can be combined with other data-mining methods to improve the effectiveness of both provider and beneficiary investigations.

Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud

October 12, 2011 |

This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies

Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it

October 12, 2011 |

In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.

Delivering the Future of Healthcare: Maintain Compliance, Improve Efficiency and Continuity of Care...Virtually Anywhere

September 29, 2011 |

The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future. Learn how you can deliver the future of healthcare...virtually anywhere.

Proactive Security and Privacy Monitoring for Modern Healthcare Networks

September 8, 2011 |

The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.

The Power of User Virtualization: Meeting Meaningful Use, Optimizing IT and Clinical Productivity

August 23, 2011 |

Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.

Futureproofing Healthcare with Converged Medical Infrastructure

August 23, 2011 |

The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

May 3, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT ... PHI in the cloud, skyrocketing EHR incentive payments, Johns Hopkins on how the ACA promises to improve population health, a Pioneer ACO helping patients manage diseases at home, and more.

Twitter recap: Todd Park talks Big Data Week

April 25, 2012 |

Kelly Mehler

Todd Park (@todd_park), United States chief technology officer for the Obama Administration, engaged in a live Twitter chat as part of Big Data Week, a string of community-led events relating to big data. Here is a Twitter recap of the Q&A.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

April 12, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT: What the ICD-10 delay really means, CMS touts MSSP ACOs many of which are physician-led, a pair of HIEs adopt Direct, and the PHI questions to ask all your business associates.

HIPAA 5010: What's triggering denials and rejections

January 26, 2012 |

We've been using HIPAA 5010 standards to transmit electronic medical claims for a few weeks. How's that working?

HIPAA 5010: Healthcare providers still need to work on the transition after deadline

January 12, 2012 |

I bet you thought HIPAA 5010 was so 2011. The deadline was Jan. 1 after all.

It's 2012, and do you know where your HIPAA 5010 transactions are?

January 5, 2012 |

Since it is only Jan. 5, you don't have a lot experience to tell you how HIPAA 5010 compliance is working.

HIPAA 5010: MGMA calls for 6-month contingency plan

December 20, 2011 |

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) again says the healthcare industry still is not ready to comply with HIPAA 5010 and wants The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend the deadline six months.

Standards institute offers HIPAA assistance

December 2, 2011 |

Jeff Rowe

Among the myriad questions providers encounter as they move to EHRs is how best to protect the privacy and security of their patients' health information.

Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT

November 10, 2011 |

OCR audits, PHI for HIEs, HIX IT, the value of electronic medical data in the theater of war, and more.

Mitigating ICD-10 Risks: Providers need to increase their dosages of documentation

October 13, 2011 |

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) presented a lot of information about mitigating ICD-10 risks in three webinars Wednesday.

AHIMA11: Twitter recap

October 7, 2011 |

Kelly Mehler

The 83rd Annual AHIMA Convention & Exhibit took place this week in Salt Lake City, Utah. The official AHIMA Resources twitter account promoted the hashtag #AHIMA11 in the weeks building up to the conference, in hopes that attendees would share personal experiences, tweet live events and enjoy the networking affairs. Here is a twitter recap of those who chose to do so.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

August 25, 2011 |