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Prescription drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the United States than gun, knife, and motor vehicle injuries combined, with those involving opioid analgesics increasing 300% since 1999.
Everything is going digital, and that includes the way clinicians prescribe medications. Up until recently, so-called “e-prescribing” has been largely limited to non-controlled substances, but times are changing. Hopeful regulators see the key to reducing prescription-drug addiction at the heart of e-prescribing authentication measures, even moving to encourage vendors and providers to get on board with a 2010 revision of DEA rules that allows for controlled substances to be prescribed electronically.
Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) delivers a number of benefits. However, in order to enable EPCS, healthcare providers must meet DEA requirements that can be disruptive and cumbersome to implement.
Dr. Jayne discusses Hands Free Authentication and the solution offered by Imprivata.
Despite the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of federal or state regulations designed to fortify – if not virtually guarantee – data security, the number of cyber attacks, data breaches, and hacking incidents against healthcare organizations continues to multiply. Some point to the failure of regulations or their enforcement; others to software deficiencies and questionable employee behaviors with mobile device access.
Secure and Convenient Authentication Platform Improves Clinical Workflows and Increases Patient Safety While Helping WCA Hospital Meet DEA Requirements for EPCS
Lexington, Mass. — October 14, 2015 — Imprivata® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT security company, today announced preliminary results for three months ended September 30, 2015.
When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) introduced regulations for electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) in 2010, many providers worried that EPCS’s strict security stipulations would disrupt their prescribing workflows. Since then, New York State’s groundbreaking I-STOP legislation and the public debate about mandating EPCS in other states, has driven innovations in health technology that drive EPCS adoption.
When it comes to messaging, hospital executives want to make sure it's done securely.
A new report by research firm KLAS, identifies some of the key vendors in this rapidly emerging space and explains why they've garnered market share in an area where there are more than 100 competitors.