EHR Meets UDI COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Unique Device Identification (UDI) is a…
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William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health…
William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Various EHRs require a user to “validate” some elements of information (data) before they…
Don’t Join the HIPAA Data Breach ‘Wall of Shame’ Mike Semel Semel Consulting In compliance with the HIPAA Data Breach Notification Rule, more than 570 HIPAA data breaches…
Trends in EHR Vendor Strength Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD On April 2nd, 2013, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made available…
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor When I entered the field of informatics in the 1980s, a great deal of the research…
EHR System Technical Functionality vs. Usability COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu The adoption of EHR systems has led…
HIPAA Omnibus Effective Today The final HIPAA Omnibus rule enhances a patient’s privacy protections, provides individuals new rights to their personal health information, and strengthens…
EHR Meets MDDS COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu With the exception of imaging and lab results, the EHR…