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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards

by Fred Pennic 02/09/2023 Leave a Comment

Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards

What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments.  - Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Imprivata Launches First-to-Market Mobile Facial Recognition Solution

by Fred Pennic 05/26/2021 Leave a Comment

The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare

What You Should Know: - Imprivata®, the digital identity company for healthcare, together with technology partners Aware and IDEMIA, today introduced an innovative mobile facial recognition solution, taking advanced security technology and enhancing and simplifying it for application to unique healthcare requirements. - The solution enables seamless self-enrollment by the prescribers for electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS). This innovative facial recognition solution
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Paper vs. Electronic: 72% of Americans Want Physicians to Use Mobile E-Prescribing Tools

by Fred Pennic 05/03/2021 Leave a Comment

Paper vs. Electronic: 72% of Americans Want Physicians to Use Mobile E-Prescribing Tools

What We Should Know: - A new e-prescription survey of 1,004 U.S. consumers, ages 18 and over conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of DrFirst in December 2020 shows that despite the industry’s claim of widespread adoption of e-prescribing (EPCS), many doctors continue to write paper prescriptions. The survey found that 53% of Americans say some of their prescriptions are still sent to the pharmacy by phone, fax, or paper. - They also often wait days for even urgently needed
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VA Taps Appriss for Drug Monitoring to Curb Substance Abuse

by Jasmine Pennic 11/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Why The Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential To Public Health

What You Should Know: - The Department of Veteran Affairs is working with Appriss Health to tackle the veteran opioid epidemic via drug monitoring. - The tool will give VHA prescribers more complete clinical information, including controlled substance prescription histories, for patients, helping clinicians identify and prevent prescription drug misuse, resulting in better-informed care decision-making and improving patient safety.  Appriss Health, a provider delivering
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COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration

by Wes Wright, CTO at Imprivata 11/02/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration

If you work in healthcare, chances are that the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to quickly scale up or move staff around to manage the onslaught of patients. The demand for clinicians and support staff grew alongside the spread of the virus, making organizations add clinicians or reassign employees with new or modified roles: Ambulatory nurses went down in the Emergency Department or Isolation Ward, revenue cycle folks started doing transport, and so on. In some cases, former staff or retired
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden

by Fred Pennic 02/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_Cognitive Overload Documentation Overload

- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers. - The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations. As part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued
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Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare

by James Litton, CEO of Identity Automation 12/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare

The healthcare sector is charged with preserving some of the most sensitive information of any industry. Hospitals and clinics are required to securely store data, such as social security numbers, patient medical records, insurance policy details, and credit card numbers. Although healthcare administrators are confronted with copious amounts of sensitive information, it would be incorrect to assume that the industry is a beacon of cybersecurity best practices. In fact, 13.2 million patient
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Report: E-Prescription Accuracy Has Increased by 64% Since 2016

by Fred Pennic 08/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Report: E-Prescription Accuracy Has Increased by 64% Since 2016

As an industry, moving to electronic prescribing has changed the way clinicians, pharmacists and patients communicate about drug therapies. New data released today from Surescripts reports that e-prescription accuracy has increased by 64% since 2016. Thanks to this improvement, the handwritten doctor’s note that was often illegible or lost in transit is now a secure, digital transaction.Despite Growth, Challenges RemainsE-prescribing changed the way patients, prescribers and pharmacists
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Imprivata Unveils Identify Governance for Secure, Role-Based Access to Apps

by Jasmine Pennic 08/13/2019 Leave a Comment

Imprivata Unveils Identify Governance for Secure, Role-Based Access to Apps

Imprivata, the healthcare IT security company, today introduced Imprivata Identity Governance as the first step in enabling end-to-end Healthcare Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Imprivata Identity Governance delivers a new level of security and compliance to healthcare organizations by ensuring the right users have the right access to the right on-premises and cloud applications, and the audit trail to prove it.Complements Microsoft Azure Experience
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Imprivata Extends EPCS Support to Google Chrome for MEDITECH EHR Customers

by Jasmine Pennic 05/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Imprivata Extends EPCS Support to Google Chrome for MEDITECH EHR Customers

Health IT company Imprivata, today announced that Imprivata Confirm ID, a comprehensive solution for electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), now supports EPCS within the Google Chrome Web browser. This makes Imprivata Confirm ID more accessible to MEDITECH customers as the best option for ensuring a fast, seamless, and fully compliant EPCS workflow for their prescribers.Growing Importance of EPCS for MEDITECH HospitalsIn response to America’s national opioid abuse epidemic, the
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