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CLEAR IN HIS AIM to reframe substance abuse as a public health crisis that can’t be solved by law enforcement alone, Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday detailed a suite of options to reverse the trend of opioid addiction that last year claimed the lives of over 1,000 residents across the state.
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Thanks to leadership at NYU Langone Medical Center, trees will be able to sleep a little easier. Clipboards on the other hand? Not so much.
The Manhattan-based academic medical center is on a mission to become completely paperless, says CIO Nader Mherabi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sean Kelly and Imprivata customer Lisa Rabideau from the University of Vermont Health Network Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, discuss the benefits of EPCS and Confirm ID in a HealthcareDIVE article titled, "With I-STOP, New York mandates a promising solution for opioid prescription misuse, fraud.”
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By Hannah Kuchler
John Kuhn needed to bare his midriff to hospital administrators to finally get out of a $20,000 bill for surgery that he did not have.
“I had to go in front of the billing department and the chief financial officer and pull my shirt up and show them I did not have a gaping scar on my stomach,” he says.