The Future of Fax in Healthcare Is Paperless
The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be...
View ArticleLooking at the Future of Data Storage in Healthcare
This week I’m in Austin for the annual Pure Storage user and partner conference called Pure Accelerate. If you want to follow the event on Twitter, you can do so at the hashtag #PureAccelerate or just...
View ArticleEnhancing Healthcare Cybersecurity Through Legacy System Retirement and Data...
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer...
View ArticleAllscripts Partners With Northwell Health To Build New Voice-Enabled,...
Allscripts has struck a deal to collaboratively design, test and release an AI-based, voice-enabled EHR with New York state’s largest health system. The vendor will be collecting input from...
View ArticlePhysician Satisfaction with Electronic Health Records – the Data Might...
The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen from Atos and Mitchell Josephson from KLAS. In case you missed part 1 of the EHR Physician Satisfaction Series, be sure you read it to understand the...
View ArticleThe Legal Pitfalls of Using a PDF Chart Summary or Cold Storage as a...
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often...
View ArticleIT DevOps Solutions to Improve the Physician and Patient Experience
We all know that Physician Burnout is a big problem in healthcare. Not only is it impacting physicians, but that has a trickle down effect on patient experience as well. That’s why we see so much focus...
View ArticleData Center Before and After Shots from Mt San Rafael Hospital
I was really impressed recently by a couple pictures my friend, Michael Archuleta, CIO at Mt San Rafael Hospital shared with me. Michael shared these pictures along with the news that his hospital had...
View ArticleHealth System Supply Chain Execs May Be Unaware Of Clinical Integration Gaps
New research suggests that health system leaders may not be aware that clinical integration may not be proceeding as they expected. While their plans are likely to call for participation of clinicians...
View ArticleAccelerating Healthcare Innovation with DevOps – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Nichole Gunderson (@nicholeg514) and Ed Keen...
View ArticleKnow When to Hold ’em: The Legal Considerations for Healthcare Information...
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record...
View ArticleFinger Pointing is Easy in Healthcare IT
I’ve regularly talked about how in healthcare there’s always a reason available not to do something. Basically, if there’s something you don’t want to do, you can come up with a reason not to do it. If...
View ArticleDiscover The Secret Trifecta of Performance Data to Deliver Better Patient Care
The following is a guest article by Stacy Leidwinger, CMO of Goliath Technologies. Imagine this. A doctor is sitting at a keyboard in an exam room with a patient, pale and clammy, watching over her...
View ArticleRetention of Audit Trails and Other Metadata are Critical to Limit Risk When...
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Successful healthcare data archiving with minimal risk requires preservation of the legal...
View ArticleVolume of Healthcare Threats, Especially Trojan Malware, Are Expanding
A new report by a security vendor says that it has seen a big increase in the volume of threats against healthcare organizations during the first three quarters of this year. The report, by...
View ArticleCore Principles for Application Decommissioning and Data Archiving
While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare...
View Article7 Lessons Learned from the Career of Gus Malezis, CEO of Imprivata
Gus Malezis, President and CEO of Imprivata, has been at the head of the company since 2016 where he’s focused on creating a sustainable company that’s driven to improve healthcare. While many may be...
View ArticleMore Power & Performance: Professional Workstations Give Healthcare Users the...
The following is a guest article by Dan Stevens, a member of Lenovo’s Health Care strategy team. Those of us of a certain age remember what computers used to be like. We each had a big, pale white...
View ArticleCreative Ways to Leverage an RTLS Infrastructure to Enhance Staff Workflows...
The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. Have you ever gone to an appointment at a clinic and sat in the waiting room for exhaustive periods of...
View ArticleHealthcare AI May Already Be Reducing Physician Burnout
New research suggests that AI may already be offering – or at least seems well-positioned to offer—help with reducing physician burnout levels in addition to freeing up some of their time. The survey,...
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