TASCET, Inc., released its “Unique Patient Identifier,” or UPI, solution to the healthcare industry– resolving a long, contentious search by providers, patient privacy advocates and public agencies.
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Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.
By Terry Edwards – Proper oversight and security are needed before any healthcare organization can successfully implement BYOD policies. If you’re launching a BYOD program or looking to revise current policies, here are three tips for consideration.
In collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) unveiled a roadmap for the development of standards to support information governance (IG) in healthcare including national and international efforts to ensure interoperability among health information systems.
In a hearing convened by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), witnesses outlined opportunities to improve health information exchange, citing the absence of a nationally-recognized identifier as an ongoing challenge to matching patients to their healthcare data.
FDA-regulated digital health solutions are expected to save the U.S. healthcare system more than $100 billion over the next four years, according to new research from Accenture.
DataMotion, an HISP, announced it has joined the National Association for Trusted Exchange. NATE is a not-for-profit association enabling consumers to securely access and share their health information with their family care providers, doctors and others that they trust, leading to improvements in engagement, safety and outcomes.
By Karen DeSalvo – I am optimistic about the bright future we have to leverage health information technology to enable better health for everyone in this country. One year ago, we called upon the health IT community to move beyond adoption and focus on interoperability, on unlocking the data, so it can be put to the many important uses demanded by consumers, doctors, hospitals, payers, and others who are part of the learning health system.
Driving clinical and operational improvements and enhancing electronic medical record (EMR) functionality will be the focus of health information technology (HIT) investments in 2015, according to the results of a new healthcare leadership survey released by Royal Philips.