Federal agencies have made considerable progress rooting out fraud and abuse of the healthcare system, yet much work remains. Roger Foster looks at how CMS can use big data tools to fight fraud and abuse at all levels.
Christine Bechtel of the National Partnership for Women & Families and Deven McGraw of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology each blasted the American Hospital Association over patient access to medical records.
When putting protected health information into the cloud, healthcare organizations need to consider the legal liabilities. That starts with controlling your response to data breaches, and includes an incident response plan.
A look inside the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's guidance document finds eight domains, and explores what each means to health professionals.
Safeguarding protected health information is getting thornier, and new federal initiatives not only crack down on HIPAA covered entities but also extend the reach of their responsibility for protecting such data into trading partners. Here's what you need to know about your business associates security practices.
Healthcare organizations need help to evaluate the value of the protected health information (PHI) they are entrusted with so they make a business case for increasing their investments in security and privacy initiatives to safeguard it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) presented a lot of information about mitigating ICD-10 risks in three webinars Wednesday.
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.