Featured Report: HIMSS focuses on usability in guide to selecting mobile apps

Fierce Mobile Healthcare
July,13, 2012
By: Susan D. Hall
A new document from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) aims to help small and midsize practices in selecting mobile apps, focusing on usability. Formal, in-depth product comparisons might not be practical for smaller practices, but a review of usability recommendations and best practices can ease this process. The document recommends that providers start by defining their goals for an app. Questions like "Are you looking to handle prescription refill requests more efficiently?" and "How much training will be required?" can help in that process. Likely scenarios or tasks to measure the time to complete a task, satisfaction with the tool and other factors, can be set up using a questionnaire. Read More

This Week's Healthcare News
MobiHealthNews
Mobile health pervades recent top healthcare rankings
July,18,2012
By:Neil Versel
Mobile health is showing up at the top of a lot of lists lately. Ahead of next week’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil — better known as Rio+20 — Mashable columnist Zoe Fox has outlined five reasons why “mobile is the future of sustainable development.” No. 1 is disease response. Fox highlighted one of many mHealth projects underway in sub-Saharan Africa, a Hewlett-Packard effort with Positive Innovation for the Next Generation and the Clinton Health Access Initiatives to track disease outbreaks in Kenya and Botswana. Thanks to text messaging, health workers now can report outbreaks of malaria to public-health authorities in about 3 minutes. The old, analog method could take weeks to get such information from isolated areas.
Read More

Healthcare Info Security
NIST Updates Mobility Guidance
By:Eric Chabrow
July,11,2012
Deploying software that centralizes device management at the organization level is one of the better approaches to help secure mobile devices, new draft guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology recommends. Centralized programs manage the configuration and security of mobile devices and provide secure access to an organization's computer network, according to the just-issued draft of NIST Special Publication 800-124 Revision 1, Guidelines for Managing and Securing Mobile Devices in the Enterprise, which provides recommendations for selecting, implementing and using centralized management technologies for securing mobile devices.
Read Report

Health Data Management
New Guidance for Using Direct Project Messaging Protocols
July, 19, 2012
By: Joseph Goedert
Guidance from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is intended to heighten confidence that Direct is being properly implemented, encourage consistent practice standards, and enable development of trusted communities across health information service providers at the regional and state levels, according to the ONC. The guidance covers defining common policies, standards and implementation approaches in areas such as issuing digital certifications and proving identity of end users, among other issues. Users of the guidance need to keep two considerations in mind, according to ONC:
Read Report

Wirehead Technology: Healthcare IT Managed Services

Healthcare Professiinals If you think that you can create a secure and compliant healthcare network with off-the-shelf IT products or free online web-based applications and still pass a HIPAA audit? Please read the articles below:

Modern Physician.com
Ariz. doc practice to pay $100,000 in HIPAA settlement
By: Joseph Conn
April, 17, 2012
Using a Web-based, electronic patient scheduling system without appropriate privacy protections has led to an Arizona medical practice reaching a $100,000 settlement with the federal government over potential privacy and security violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HHS announced. Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, of Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz., agreed to pay HHS and take corrective actions to protect patient information after an investigation by HHS' Office for Civil Rights, which has privacy and security rule enforcement duties under HIPAA.

Healthcare Info Security
Arrest in S.C. Medicaid Info Breach
April,19,2012
By: Howard Anderson
A former South Carolina state employee has been arrested for allegedly transferring personal information about more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to his personal e-mail account. The information inappropriately transferred in the breach incident, according to the South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, includes names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and Medicaid ID numbers. For almost 23,000 of the affected patients, Medicare numbers, which contain Social Security numbers, also were transferred. No private medical records or financial information was involved, authorities say. Nevertheless, the state is offering all those affected a year's worth of free identity protection services.

How We Can Help
As you can see in the articles above, security breaches can happen to any size healthcare facility, large or small. The fines in both cases are large from $100,000.00 for small practices to up to $250.00 per person breached in larger facilities.

Yet all of this can be avoided if a complete healthcare IT security plan is put in place to protect your patients and your practice. So don't make a million-dollar mistake by trying to create a DIY system.

Let us help Our Healthcare IT Managed Services are designed for single doctors' offices and small clinics .We have a complete ONC Certified SAS 70 Type II EMR Services, HIPAA complaint phones systems, computer systems from servers to tablets, security systems from firewalls to anti-virus, secure cloud-based EMR, EMR training for you and your staff, and before and after IT consulting services that will manage your system that will allow you to take care of your patients knowing that their information will be safe and secure.

Now about the prices Our services can be purchased outright or you can lease our services as a pay-as-you-go plan that will fit your budget. Best of all, many of our services qualify for the EHR Incentive Program from Medicare and Medicaid that will reimburse you up to $63,000.00 over five years.

So why should you take the chance of doing your IT wrong and getting hit with a fine that could cripple your practice when there is help available to you as close as your phone or computer? Call us today and let one of our IT consultants go over your practice to see how we can help you. Remember, doing IT alone WILL cost you BIG in the end. Call us Today.

Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Are you looking for the latest information on what's going on in the mobile industry? Then We Got You Covered Subscribe to our Wirehead Technology Newsletter
Our Newsletter is published three times a week:

Monday: Mobile and Social Media Marketing

Wednesday: Wireless Industry News

Friday: Healthcare,M-Health,Security News

To Subscribe Click Here
Current Subscribers Please share this newsletter with your Clients and Friends