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During HIMSS 2016, I had the opportunity to talk to one of the true leaders in healthcare technology, Craig Richardville, Carolinas HealthCare Systems’ Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer who was recently named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS. Craig discuses a range of topics including interoperability and security challenges in healthcare, the government’s patient identification efforts, and Carolinas Healthcare Systems’ use of the palm vein biometric patient identity platform, Imprivata PatientSecure.
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As hospitals move to digitize records, they face a new threat, hackers. Recent attacks have forced some medical centers to pay ransom to regain access to their systems. While ransomware isn’t new, these attacks highlight hospital vulnerabilities. As Bertha Coombs reports from Boston, changes, however, are being made to prevent the next breach.
Q&A with Michele Higgins, PharmD, MBA
Michele Higgins, PharmD, MBA, is the pharmacy informatics coordinator for Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Nebraska. Higgins’ experience, spanning over 20 years, includes implementing systems for automated dispensing cabinets, carousels, pharmacy information systems, bedside barcoding, and setting up a pharmacy department in a brand new facility with a new NICU population utilizing 100% CPOE. Her most recent project has been implementing electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) for providers across Nebraska Methodist Health System. Recently, Higgins spoke about her EPCS implementation experience and advice:
2012 is nearing its end, but 2013 will present new challenges for healthcare IT security officers and IT managers. HealthITSecurity.com had a chance to speak with Keith Ashpole, Security Specialist at Via Christi Health in Kansas and Joel Loflin, IT Director – Clinical Applications at Via Christi, to hear about some new healthcare IT security initiatives at Via Christi and what’s important to them heading into 2013.
Hospitals have long relied on the trusty pager to alert doctors to an emergency. But the technology now looks embarrassingly primitive in the age of the multimedia smartphone.
So some healthcare start-ups are looking at ways to improve how doctors and nurses communicate, care for patients and manage treatments.
Five rural hospitals in Eastern Ontario have implemented a Single Sign-On system from Imprivata, enabling clinicians to easily access electronic charts and files from a wide variety of systems.
Focus on Risk: More effective risk governance—beyond simply adding more compliance people to the staff, which would increase costs but not likely improve controls—is the best way for financial services companies to meet their governance challenges, according to a report from Ernst & Young. Pressure also comes from investors, who expect firms to adjust their business models and costs in light of these new market pressures and regulatory scrutiny.