I took a brief excursion last week to Madison, Wisconsin with a couple of colleagues to update the folks at Epic about hospitals that use systems from both E…
I am obsessed with brand. Not the brand that most people think of when they think brand - the colors, logo, advertising, or promotional characteristics of a company - but the actual brand experience.…
Webinar Q&A: Mercy Health System Speeds Access to EpicCare and Increases Clinician Satisfaction
Michelle Liro
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Mercy Health Systems’ Manager of IT Systems, Ben Exley, recently presented as part of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Signature Learning Series. Mercy was facing a “big bang” roll-out of Epic to 3,800 users, and wanted to ensure that the clinician adoption of the new system would be as smooth and seamless as possible.…
Congratulations to Licking Memorial Hospital on achieving Stage 6 on the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model
Ed Gaudet
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We were delighted this month to see yet another Imprivata customer achieve Stage 6 on the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model. Congratulations to Sallie Arnett and the team at Licking Memorial Hospital on becoming the 316th US hospital to be distinguished with Stage 6 status! I caught up with Sallie to ask her a few questions about the adoption process and how the EMR systems is being received among care providers at Licking Memorial.…
The Unintended Consequences of Meaningful Use – A CIO’s Perspective
Brian Mullins
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Ed Ricks, the VP Information Services & CIO at Beaufort Memorial Hospital (an Imprivata customer), has started blogging for Computerworld on healthcare IT issues.…
Are you ready for Stage 2 Meaningful Use? The proposed ruling states hospitals must attest to 18 objectives, 16 core and 2 of 4 menu objectives and Stage 2 now begins in FFY 2014 (10/1/2013). By consolidating some objectives, introducing new ones and raising the threshold on some the bar is certainly raised. …
What a Difference a Year Makes: Onsite at VMworld 2011
Ed Gaudet
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VMworld was markedly different from a healthcare IT point of view this year. I wrote a guest blog for HealthITExchange summarizing a few of my thoughts which you can find here. Were you at VMworld this year? What was your impression?…
A nonprofit organization recently reported, over the last five years more than 45 million U.S. electronic health records (EHRs) were either lost or stolen by insiders and/or outsiders. How do we reconcile the absolute need of timely information access critical to patient welfare, while simultaneously protecting a patient’s right to privacy as granted by HIPAA and HITECH?…
Imprivata’s Geoff Hogan authored an article for Security Technology Executive last month titled, “Passwords in Peril” that delves into the password management conundrum that organizations face with the growing number of applications that employees use daily. While the article summarizes succinctly the helpdesk costs issue, employee productivity and the data security vulnerabilities that a runaway password management problem causes, it also highlights effective single sign-on (SSO) strategies and tactics to overcome these challenges.
I wanted to take this opportunity to pull out a couple of SSO and Password Management best practices that Geoff covered, while adding a couple more...…
Tunneling into a Data Breach: The Problem with Remote Access and the Terminated Employee
David Ting
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Another insider unauthorized access incident came across my radar just as I put the finishing touches on my most recent blog post highlighting Lesmany Nunez’s case being the latest example of a disgruntled employee breaching a network. As of today, the most current remote access security breach involves Danielle Duann, an IT director of a nonprofit organ and tissue donation center.…
