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7 Essential Steps for Safely Moving Patient Data to the Cloud

by Our Thought Leaders 01/11/2016 Leave a Comment

7 Essential Steps for Safely Moving Patient Data to the Cloud

Editor's Note: Salo Fajer is the Chief Technology Officer at Digital Guardian. He is responsible for driving the company’s strategic vision and core innovation efforts while also overseeing product management, product marketing, and product content development. It is well known that cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) technology brings many benefits to healthcare firms, including improved mobility, immediate access to information and streamlined record keeping. Unfortunately, these
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Achieving HIPAA Compliance as a Business Associate

by Our Thought Leaders 01/06/2016 Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note:  This post is co-written by David Wong, Managing Director of Bulger Partners, an advisory firm that specializes in healthcare IT and Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect for Cloud Technology Partners.  In 2009, the HITECH Act mandated that not only covered entities but also business associates would be subject to periodic audits as a means to ensure that both are complying with HIPAA Rules. The first phase of these audits, taking place between 2011 and 2012 and involving 115
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Interoperability Will Define Health IT Vendors In 2016

by Dr Saif Abed 01/05/2016 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Achieve the Interoperability We Need

For the last five years I have witnessed at length the bold predictions of how many startups and app focused companies will revolutionize healthcare as they did the consumer industry. I was always a skeptic and viewed the 'evangelizing' of healthcare apps as being wishful thinking rather than being based on any evidence. Don't get me wrong, apps are a critical component of clinical IT systems for patients and clinicians but they're just that - one component. A gateway to much more important
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In Retrospective, Meaningful Use was Meaningless

by Margalit Gur-Arie 01/04/2016 Leave a Comment

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We don’t win anymore in health care. After repeatedly drilling in our heads that America’s sick care system is a disaster, that those who care for the sick are incompetent and stupid, and that the sick themselves are losers, Meaningful Use was advertised as the means by which technology will make health care great again. The program has been in place for 5 years and the great promise of Meaningful Use is just around the same corner it was back in 2011. The only measurable changes from the
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“Data as a Drug” Will Define The Next Decade of Medicine

by Our Thought Leaders 12/21/2015 1 Comment

Moving Beyond The Pill: The Future of Health Apps

Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.  Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips.  The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness.  Increasingly, humans are becoming machines.  We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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EHRs are Oppressive Straitjackets for the Practice of Medicine

by Margalit Gur-Arie 12/15/2015 7 Comments

EHR Optimization EHRs Meaningful Use Stage 3_Ambulatory EHR_Specialty-Driven EHRs

Editor's Note: Margalit Gur-Arie is the founder, BizMed. She writes regularly about the intersection of healthcare & technology on her site: On Health Care Technology. Follow her on Twitter at @margalitgurarie It was a dark and stormy night. My computer didn’t catch fire while typing the previous sentence. No alarms were triggered warning me about the quality of such opening. I wasn’t prompted to select subjects and predicates from dropdown lists. I typed the entire sentence, letter by
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7 Factors Influencing How Consumers Will Dictate the Doctor Experience in 2016

by Our Thought Leaders 12/14/2015 Leave a Comment

7 Factors Influencing How Consumers Will Dictate the Doctor Experience in 2016

Editor's Note: Jim Prendergast is a digital health entrepreneur, and the CEO and Co-Founder of HealthiestYou, a  telehealth and wellness delivery innovator. Jim recently led the company through a $30 million round of growth funding from Frontier Capital.  The healthcare industry is experiencing a new driver at the wheel. In 2016 this will become more apparent than ever. It’s you. And, it’s me. It is in fact, all of us who want less-hassle healthcare access, cost containment and a complete
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Why Shared Care Plans Is the Future of Care Coordination

by Robert Rowley MD 12/10/2015 Leave a Comment

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A recent study of healthcare organizations showed that most are not prepared to deliver standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. Shared care plans will be the centerpiece of coordinated care delivery, incentivized by the move from fee-for-service to value-based care. In 2015, Medicare unveiled its plan to transition to quality-based payments via the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will sunset and subsume earlier quality-encouraging programs, and move
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Can We Balance Civil Liberties with Mental Health Treatment?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 12/08/2015 3 Comments

Behavioral Health Can We Balance Civil Liberties with Mental Health Treatment?

Editor's Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. In January of this year, political analyst Norman Ornstein lost his 34-year-old son, Matthew, to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. While Matthew’s death was a tragic blow to family and friends, it was not the kind of out-of-the-blue shock that comes with absolutely no forewarning. Matthew, as Ornstein says in a New York Times op-ed
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EPCS and Prior Authorizations: Prescriptions for Better Patient Care

by Dr. Stephen Beck 12/08/2015 Leave a Comment

ePatient Movement_Clinical Decisions at the Point of Care

Editor's Note: Stephen Beck, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, currently serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Mercy Health . In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revised regulations to give prescribers the option to write electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) such as opioids and ADHD medications, while permitting pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these e-scripts. EPCS increases patient and community safety, too. Doctors document everything discreetly
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