Med City News
August, 23,2012
By: Dan West
Mobile technology has completely transformed our personal and business lives. With instant access to information via smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, we quickly get what we need to make better, more informed decisions faster. For the healthcare industry, mobility has enabled new ways for physicians to access their patients’ information and take action to improve patient care. As demand for instant access continues to grow and healthcare facilities strive to move to a mobile environment, they should consider maturing their mobile strategies by incorporating enterprise technologies, like enterprise content management (ECM). Many facilities are implementing ECM solutions to capture, manage, protect, store, access and share information to streamline processes, and become more efficient.
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iHealthbeat
CMS Selects Health IT Adopters for Primary Care Pilot Program
Aug,23,2012
On Wednesday, CMS announced that it has selected 500 primary care practices to participate in a four-year pilot program that will reward health care providers who better coordinate care for Medicare beneficiaries, Government Health IT reports. CMS selected the practices based on factors such as their: Adoption of electronic health record systems; Use of other health IT systems; and Ability to use data tools to provide patients with real-time, personal health information Read more
Healthcare Info Security
25 Health Breaches Added to Tally
Aug,23,2012
By: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Twenty-five incidents affecting 215,000 individuals were added over the past month to the federal tally of major healthcare information breaches. That bumps up the total to 489 breaches affecting 21 million individuals since September 2009. The largest incident added since late July is a breach at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., involving improper access to 102,000 electronic health records.
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Healthdata Management
Cops: ER Employee Sold 760,000 Patient Records
Aug, 23, 2012
by: Joseph Goedert
The FBI has arrested a former employee of Florida Hospital Celebration, charging him with accessing 760,000 emergency department records over two years and selling them, WFTV in Orlando reports. The bureau alleges that Dale Munroe, who registered patients in the emergency department, primarily accessed records of patients who were in an automobile accident from several hospitals across the state, and sold the records to someone who sold them to chiropractors and attorneys.
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