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Cybersecurity concerns have become much more than a hypothetical for vulnerable hospitals, most of whom are finally realizing just how vulnerable they are. So it’s no surprise that IT security vendors will surely be among the most visited booths on the HIMSS16 exhibit floor.
A Big, Big, Big Problem
Windows XP is also a continuing headache in too many medical devices, Miri says. "I just saw one the other day in the UK, where a Windows XP device that was actually a lab instrument was infected with malware and had inadvertently infected an entire NHS hospital."
This year at HIMSS16, we hosted a cybersecurity panel discussion in the Imprivata theater on "Protecting health information: thinking beyond cybersecurity." Moderated by Anthony Guerra, editor-in-chief of healthsystemsCIO.com, the panel included health IT and security experts:
In honor of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we at Imprivata wanted to share a few tips on how positive patient identification can help keep patients safe. Patient safety goes beyond safe medical treatment - healthcare organizations must ensure that patients’ privacy, data, and identities are protected. Positive patient identification provides that protection.
Yesterday, in an article on the release of new CDC guidelines for prescribing painkillers, which recommend that doctors first try ibuprofen and aspirin to treat pain, then prescribe only a three-day course of the highly addictive opioids, New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise wrote, “the recommendations are meant for primary care doctors, who prescribe about half of all opioids but often have little training in how to use them.”
While providers are making significant investments in EMR systems, many facilities still rely on rudimentary oral registration processes. This increases the risk of patient misidentification, threatening patient safety and the hospital’s bottom line. In this executive brief by Becker’s Hospital Review, the authors examine the cause of patient misidentification and how palm vein biometrics can be used to prevent it.
Last week, I brought my 9-year-old son to the pediatrician for his annual physical. I could tell you what the experience was like but I know that, if you have kids or if you have a primary care physician, you already know how it went. Except, in this case, it was worse. Yes, we barely got a greeting as the nurse practitioner walked in to the exam room, past my son on the exam table, and straight towards the computer in the corner. Yes, we sat there patiently waiting to begin as she tried to log in – twice.
Carolinas HealthCare boosts patient safety with palm-vein biometrics,” a story on how CIO Craig Richardville has reduced Carolinas HealthCare System’s duplicate medical records error rate from 2.9 percent to 0.01 percent using Imprivata PatientSecure, ran today in Healthcare IT News.