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EMR Medication Administration Safety: Bar Coding Benefits
In my experience with implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, I have been greatly impressed by the highly effective and promising bar coding technologies as specifically applied to...
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Hospitals: Do You Really Know Where Your Healthcare Data Is?
In a healthcare organization, it’s “data, data everywhere”. But do you really know where it resides? If you planted your credit cards in the backyard, you would protect them. When you carry your cards...
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Welcome to HitPoint!
We’re excited to introduce HitPoint, our new issues-focused blog on healthcare IT. Created by Phoenix subject matter experts, HitPoint will offer thought-provoking commentary, ideas, and how-to’s on...
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The Cloud and Hospital IT: Moving Past the Hype to True Benefits
Cloud computing is is revolutionary — the next big thing in enterprise technology. But if you’re anything like me you are tired of hearing all the messaging about it. Thanks to widespread marketing by...
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Hospital IT Help Desk: Dig In and Assess Your Support.
This post is the second in a series focused on one of the biggest IT nuts-and-bolts problems in hospitals. If you want to start at post #1, go here. As a comparison to a dysfunctional Help Desk, my...
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ICD-10 is Simple, But Not.
To many of us, the final CMS rule to replace ICD-9 coding with ICD-10 seems incomprehensible…certainly complex. But, the big picture is simple and makes sense: Healthcare requires transactions. Claims,...
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3 Pitfalls of Moving Your Hospital Into Cloud Computing
After years of healthcare information technology experience, hospital IT managers should be good at handling even the most complex projects, right? But the excitement over cloud computing — the...
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Hospital IT Help Desk: Sift Through the Negatives.
This post is the third in a series focused on one of the biggest IT nuts-and-bolts problems in hospitals. To start with the first post, go here. In my first two posts in this series, we investigated...
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Hospital IT Help Desk: It’s All About Workflow!
This post is the fourth in a series focused on one of the biggest IT nuts-and-bolts problems in healthcare organizations. If you want to start at post #1, go here. In my last post, we investigated root...
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OMNIBUS HIPAA: A New Era for Privacy and Security (Part 1)
(This post is the first in a series of six that will examine the federal “Omnibus” HIPAA Rule, released January 18, and effective March 26. All covered entities and business associates must be in...
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Hospital IT Help Desk: Why Isn’t Your Support Supporting Enough?
This post is the first in a series focused on one of the biggest IT nuts-and-bolts problems in hospitals. Does your clinical staff do its best to go around the Help Desk? Are you hearing jokes about...
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OMNIBUS HIPAA: A New Era for Privacy and Security (Part 2)
(This post is the second in a series of six that will examine the federal “Omnibus” HIPAA Rule, released January 18, and effective March 26. All covered entities and business associates must be in...
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Omnibus HIPAA: A New Era for Privacy and Security (Part 3)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has firmly put Business Associates between its crosshairs in the new HIPAA Rule. This is big money I’m talking about. And, major required changes in...
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For You – The New Omnibus HIPAA Rule Summarized in Seven Pages
When the HHS released the new Omnibus HIPAA Rule in January, many were overwhelmed by the 563 dense pages of detail. It definitely requires reader-friendly translation. Given the importance of the...
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What Omnibus HIPAA Means for Business Associates
Lately, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the new Omnibus HIPAA Rule. With the Rule going into effect last week, it’s important that all affected parties begin to prepare to be compliant by the...
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The Questionable Status of Hospitals’ ICD-10 Implementation Progress
The ICD-10 implementation deadline of October 1, 2014 is looming ever closer, and we are seeing that small to mid-size hospitals (25-400 beds) are either: blowing the dust off any work done on ICD -10...
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Omnibus HIPAA: A New Era for Privacy and Security (Part 4)
It seems that every new iteration of HIPAA expands patients’ rights and privacy protection — and the Omnibus HIPAA Rule is no exception. In the new Rule, HHS gives patients and their rights central...
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What is the Impact of Omnibus HIPAA on Notice of Privacy Practices
With the release of the Omnibus HIPAA Rule in January, a number of changes were made in areas affecting business associates, breach notification standards and Notice of Privacy Practices. Recently,...
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Why the Transition to ICD-10 is in Trouble
Last week, I read HIMSS’ glowing Leadership Survey report that federal initiatives to push for transition to ICD-10 “are paying off, ” and I was surprised. And concerned. (See my April 10 post.) HIMSS...
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How Does Omnibus HIPAA Affect Breach Notifications?
The new federal Omnibus HIPAA Rule presents extensive revisions in HIPAA privacy and security requirements. The final rule on Breach Notifications, changes significant elements of the 2009 interim...
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