EHR Promise vs Reality
Does the EHR Have Value? William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author On a recent…
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Not Just Notes: Using the Cloud for Medical Imaging
Commonly Ordered Medical Images Shared Across Platforms By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity While we think of patient records as a collection of notes…
ONC 10-Year Strategic Vision for Interoperability
By Ed Jones III, Author and President of HIPAA, LLC. Twitter: @HIPAAsafeguards This year, 2014, marks the end of the Decade of Health Information Technology, initiated…
Study Shows EHR Market Leader Surprisingly Absent in Nashville
Middle Tennessee also reports above average adoption rates by specialty providers and greater overall EHR satisfaction Nashville, TN – Nashville may be one of the…
The Need for Direct Secure Messaging Directories
A Challenge for Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) By Andy Nieto, Health IT Strategist at DataMotion Twitter: @DataMotion Have you ever lost your cell phone and tried…
Why Disaster Recovery is Important for Healthcare Data
Practices Must Implement Contingency Plans By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity Not only are electronic health records an essential part of new government…
The Recent ONC Reorganization
Looking at the Reorganization of HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka Many people have asked me…
WSJ Article Addresses Password Usage
“Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures” with Implications for HIPAA Compliance By Ed Jones III, Author and President of HIPAA, LLC. Twitter: @HIPAAsafeguards The May…
Why Mobile EHR Access is Healthcare’s Next Big Thing
Exercise Caution with EHRs Accessing Mobile Devices By Zach Watson Twitter: @Technology_Adv 78 percent of office-based physicians use electronic healthcare records, which means the construction…