Since its inception in 1997, the video streaming and DVD distribution company Netflix has grown into an internationally recognized giant in the entertainment world. In July of this year, the business reported that its subscriber base had grown to 65.55 million, according to Business Insider. There's no denying that the company has captured the attention of its target audience.
Netflix understands what drives the modern consumer and has carefully tuned and shaped its offerings and service
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Can You Maintain HIPAA Consent While Using Email?
Editor's Note: Erik Kangas is the Presdient and CEO of LuxSci, a SaaS company specializing in security, privacy, HIPAA compliance, and all things email. He also consults on email best practices, secure web site architectures, and HIPAA compliance to organizations around the globe.
The way personal health information has been gathered, stored, and protected over the years has seen a great number of changes. Up until 1996, when Congress first passed the Health Insurance Portability and
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How 3D Printing is Driving Innovation to Medical Specialties
Some have claimed that the advance of medical (and computer) technology is progressing at a rate faster than the human mind can assimilate. 3D printing is simply two-dimensional printing built upwards. The most exciting aspect of 3D printing involves is the promise of healthcare solutions so tailored to the individual, only “personalized medicine”—dependent on individual gene sequencing—can compete.
3D Printing in Orthopedics
3D printers emerged on the scene only to
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Patient Record Exchanges Made “Right”: Sharing the Right Data with the Right Provider at the Right Time
At Mercy Health, one of our most important goals is keeping patients safer by allowing critical information to move with them – whether they’re traveling to an institution like the Mayo Clinic for treatment or seeking emergency care while away from home. The importance of exchanging records seamlessly, and the added value of providing better care for patients, cannot be overstated. Indeed, I’m continuously amazed by just how much information exists relative to how providers are exchanging
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4 Optimistic Reasons about the Ongoing Transformation of Healthcare
None of us would have the jobs we currently occupy without some ability to focus on details. Running a company, developing IT systems, managing a hospital, seeing patients and evaluating their concerns—all require the ability to dig deep and identify root causes and effective solutions.
But maybe that focus on the trees blinds us to changes in the forest, to use a well-worn aphorism.
With that broader perspective in mind, I’d like to suggest four reasons for optimism as we continue to move
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De-Identification Standards Offer 1 Solution to the High Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches
Editor's Note: Dr. Khaled El Emam is the CEO of Privacy Analytics, a world-renowned expert in statistical de-identification and re-identification risk. He is one of only a handful of known individual experts in North America qualified to certify the anonymization of Protected Health Information under the HIPAA privacy law.
Between October 2009 and August 2015, 1,286 HIPAA-covered entities and business associates have reported data breaches involving more than 500 records, which have
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Why EHR Data Blocking Is The Enemy of Collaboration
Note: Dr. Mark Crockett is the chief medical officer of Rise Health, a Best Doctors company. The company provides solutions to deliver the right care at the right time to the right patient.
Today’s healthcare headlines state the problem succinctly’: ‘EHR Data Blocking Hobbles HIT’; ‘EHR Data Blocking Still Rampant’ and more. Search ‘EHR data blocking’ on Google and you get 81,000 entries. Data blocking is clearly obstructing progress towards value-based care and is the enemy of
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How CMS Is Redefining Telemedicine with Its Chronic Care Management Service Guidelines
Telemedicine is about reaching out to patients in remote locations, but limited to videoconferencing between patients and health providers. It is similar to a face-to-face service with the exception that the patient and primary care provider are not physically together. Such efficient is limited in term of scope and only addresses the geographical challenge and scarcity of physician availability, a far cry from what CMS wanted for its Chronic Care Management Services (CMS) which would
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Are Physicians Really Dissatisfied with EHRs? Should We Be Concerned?
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Microsoft Office was first introduced by Bill Gates at COMDEX, Las Vegas, in August, 1988.
Here we are almost exactly 27 years later, and if you
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Can A Patient Experience Survey Truly Measure the Doctor-Patient Relationship?
Can we infer from a highly scored experience survey that the patient has a useful relationship with her doctor? Not really.
Sixty years ago, before he became a controversial figure in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Thomas S. Szasz co-authored an article for the Archives of Internal Medicine (now JAMA Internal Medicine) on “The Basic Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship”, which is well worth reading today, particularly for those who believe that patient empowerment/engagement is a novel and
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