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Category Archives: IT security
Five Reasons Why Physician IT Champions are Needed
It has been 5 years since the passage of the HITECH Act portion of the Affordable Care Act. The purpose of HITECH was “…to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.” While the result of this legislation … Continue reading
Five Ways Digital Health Technology Can Impact Risk Management
There has been a significant amount of well-deserved publicity regarding HIPAA violations arising from security breaches of electronic health records (EHRs). Even a well-intentioned company which developed a certification process (which included privacy and security) for mobile medical apps encountered … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, FDA, Healthcare IT, IT security, malpractice law, mHealth, mobile health, patient engagement, remote patient monitoring, risk management, smartphone apps, telehealth
Tagged ACOs, digital health, healthcare IT, hospitals, Medicare, mobile health, risk management, smartphone apps, technology
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Takeaways from The #DigitalHealth Conference 2013
I recently attended and moderated at my first Digital Health Conference in New York, hosted by the New York e Health Collaborative. I was impressed with the quality of the speakers but more impressed with how this year, in my … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, IT security, medical devices, medical education, mHealth, mobile health, patient advocacy, remote patient monitoring, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, caregiver, digital health, EHR, EMR, FDA, government IT, hcsm, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, medical apps, mHealth, S4PM
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Five Essentials to Having Your Hospital Go Mobile
While most hospitals’ IT priorities presently reside in achieving Meaningful Use and getting up to speed with ICD-10 (even though both have been moving deadline targets), there is another issue which is important to not only CIOs but to healthcare … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, FDA, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, healthcare vendors, informatics, IT security, mHealth, mobile health, mobile health clinic, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, government IT, healthcare economics, healthcare IT, healthcare vendor, hospitals, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, wireless health
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BYOD: The Elephant in the Digital Health Technology Room
The Wikipedia definition of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is: “the recent trend of employees bringing personally owned mobile devices to their place of work, and using those devices to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers, and … Continue reading
Posted in digital health, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, informatics, IT security, medical apps, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
Tagged EHR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
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Medical Apps Use Gaining Support by Providers
There have been some significant developments and noteworthy observations which are creating an atmosphere conducive to the institution of medical apps into widespread use. On the nursing front, a recent nursing survey which included almost 4000 nurses and nursing students … Continue reading
Posted in FDA, Healthcare IT, informatics, IT security, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
Tagged EHR, EMR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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mHealth and HealthcareIT: Who’s Your Healthcare Data’s Daddy?
Healtcare IT and wireless health technologies will be producing in the coming years an almost immeasurable amount of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs), smart phones, body sensors, and other ‘connected’ devices. The ownership of this type of data … Continue reading
mHealth and HIPAA
Wireless health technologies are proliferating into various transmission modalities and spectrum of wellness and healthcare. Safety and privacy of data is of paramount importance to providers and patients. HIPAA laws apply to some types of mHealth products and the implications … Continue reading
