Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
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By Devin Partida – Electronic health records are increasingly complex. Avenues include centralized patient management systems and remote data collection from at-home medical devices. They amplify data density for healthcare executives, inspiring advances. Vast quantities are essential for diagnostics and treatment research and development with a digital-first focus.
By Don Rucker, MD – Providers sharing data with payers has been anxiety-provoking and is often only as part of rework for appeals of denials of payment or prior authorization. Obviously, providers have been concerned that any data they give to payers would be used to lower their revenues from that payer.
Aligning with goals set forth by the organization’s Directory Improvement Initiative, the updated Directory Policy will increase the functionality, access, and usability of the DirectTrust Directory.
By Cindy Gaines MSN RN – Perioperative care, which spans the time frame before, during, and after surgical procedures, consists of many vital waypoints in a patient’s medical journey. It requires a coordinated joint effort by clinicians.
By Catherine Strawley & Chelsea Richwine – Screening for patients’ health-related social needs can help providers more effectively coordinate patient care and connect patients to the resources they need. Social needs are social conditions—such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of reliable transportation—
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
By Kyle Neuman – Part 5 of 5. This post, the final in our Identity Credentials Risks blog series, focuses on Risk Category 3, which considers the risks associated with authorization or the activities someone has permission to perform.
By Kyle Neuman – Part 4 of 5. In the previous two blog posts of this series on identity credentials, we discussed identity proofing and authentication. This blog post will focus on an attack of the operational controls of an identity system. This is the third and final attack that we’ll consider for Risk Category 2, nefarious impersonation.