Today’s EHR market offers numerous options and tremendous variety in electronic health records software that it can be cumbersome to decide which vendor to choose. Uncertainty can be due to any number of reasons, so this must be a big part of the discussion among your staff, prior to buying a new EHR. First, the […]
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Without data, managing the health of the communities would be near impossible for local health departments. It also is, of course, an obvious fact that electronic health records are a key source of health data and can provide some greatly needed elements for analysis of population health. By combining EHR data with a visualization […]
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In the June 2017 “Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry” published by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, it was noted that many healthcare agencies are still running patient records databases on legacy systems. And not only are these systems subject to more successful hacking, […]
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With the advancement of healthcare technology and electronic health records (EHR) through the Meaningful Use mandates, connectivity and information sharing has become increasingly available as healthcare turns to preventative care and care coordination. In fact, all immunizations given are required by all medical clinics to be recorded in the state immunization registry. If you are […]
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Protected Health Information (PHI) is hacked, stolen or misused with regularity and more than need be. Sometimes you can’t help HIPAA breaches, but often times there are measures you can and should take to protect and secure PHI data. All health care agencies must abide by the HIPPA and HITECH laws, but it is […]
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