Who: www.HealthcareITNews.Com What: All organizations have a business imperative to control risk. For healthcare companies that corporate responsibility extends to the protection of ePHI within their organization. The HIPAA Omnibus rule outlines this responsibility with a refined definition of responsible parties, notably your outsourced storage vendors and subcontractors.This final rule is a call to action, […]
Who: FierceEMR.Com What: Many providers implementing electronic health record systems and other e-tools may find themselves discriminating against the disabled in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a new American Medical News article. Public facilities and private businesses of 15 employees or more must provide “reasonable accommodation” to disabled employees under the […]
Who: UPI.Com What: Doctors are changing paper records to electronic health records, but data systems are not sophisticated enough for new types of data, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said as data becomes cheaper and more available to healthcare providers the ability to store large-scale raw […]
Who: News-Medical.Net What: GZS, Inc., a leader in developing disease-specific and condition-specific Electronic Medical Records/Electronic Health Records (EMR/EHR) and patient registry software solutions, has announced the worldwide release of the WebTracker-Hemophilia™ EHR patient registry solution used under the new brand name HemaGlobal™. HemaGlobal is a full-purpose EMR/EHR patient registry system that serves as a stable, […]
Who: SearchHealthIT.TechTarget.com What: At Penn Medicine, the emerging trend of bring your own device (BYOD) was not so much about the “if” as it was about the “when.” With almost 20,000 employees, the organization knew it would not be able to provision enough Penn Medicine-funded cell phones for all essential staff. Additionally, many of the […]
