Health Technology
Oakland drug bust turns up stolen medical records | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — An Oakland, Calif., drug bust stumbled on personal health records for about 4,500 Sutter Health patients, hospital administrators warned patients this week.
The records were likely stolen during a massive security breach of Sutter Health security systems in 2011, and the California sheriff department said the find caught them off guard.
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Mass. docs bristle over EHR rules | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — As certain provisions of Massachusetts healthcare reform prepare to roll out in 2015, some doctors are taking issue with the slippery language of the electronic health record mandate, which asks physicians to move away from paper-based records at care centers.
GE Healthcare launches $2B software-development program
Medical device giant GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) announced that it will pour $2 billion into a 5-year software development program to improve its healthcare systems and applications.
States questioned for selling patient records, risking privacy | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Health records from hospitals in 26 states that was later sold to researchers and companies contained data that could be linked to individuals, raising concerns about how differing levels of compliance with data redaction standards put patients’ privacy at risk, Bloomberg reported.
Republicans launch anti-Obamacare blitz in the wake of D.C. scandals | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL —The GOP is capitalizing on the recent IRS scandal in its campaign against healthcare reform with a new advertising strategy launched last week. The campaign took off with a 1-day mobile billboard blitz in blue districts claiming the Democratic party wants to "put the IRS in charge of your healthcare."
Personal health record use by adolescents
In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
As more and more practices and hospitals are making patient portals available to their patients, providers of adolescent patients are encountering a major hurdle: how to handle confidential adolescent information.
Optimizing electronic medication administration records
In June, BIDMC goes live with Electronic Medication Records (EMAR) on one ward to be followed
by 3 other wards, ensuring we meet our 10% Meaningful Use Stage 2 target by the reporting period October 1-December 31, 2013.
We built a web-based, mobile friendly EMAR system that includes many visual cues and seamless integration (not interfacing) with all our existing clinical information systems.
A bold new vision for Meditech
I have no financial relationships with any EHR vendor, but feel a great affinity for the vendors in Massachusetts – eClinicalWorks, AthenaHealth and Meditech.
For the past few years, I’ve suggested to Meditech that cloud hosted, standards-based, web-centric and mobile enabled hospital information systems would be very welcome by the marketplace.
U.S. Army leverages big data for mobile injury prevention | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The U.S. military piloted a new program to help prevent injuries in the field, modifying a technology developed by Move2Perform to calculate injury risk among athletes.
The program placed soldiers into a single day of physical training to generate data on potential injury risk that may identify which soldiers are most at risk for musculoskeletal injuries. The tests combine stores of data and can be conducted in non-clinical settings by non-medical personnel.
New iPad-based medical device support software might help companies lower costs
Nurep launched its iPad app designed to connect surgeons and medical device sales representatives over an iOS platform the company says is secure and HIPAA compliant.
Nurep, part of startup accelerator BluePrint Health, debuted the product at the Demo Mobile conference.