Is your electronic health record ONC certified? Turns out, even if your EHR vendor and product is "certified" as meeting certain usability requirements, they might in actuality not be meeting those said requirements, according to new analysis.
via David Varisano Many ONC-certified EHRs actually fail to meet certification standards
Patient engagement just got a boost with GetWellNetwork's acquisition of San Diego-based Skylight Healthcare Systems.
The financial terms of the deal, which closed on September 1, were not disclosed.
Research firm KLAS has ranked the two companies No. 1 and No. 2 for patient engagement for the past five years.
Broadly defined, software as a medical device is any application used by providers to make clinical decisions. An increasing number of applications are now officially designated as FDA-regulated devices. Is it worth it to pursue this classification for your own software?
via David Varisano Software as a medical device: How HIPAA security paves way for FDA classification
Looking toward National Health IT Week in early October, Healthcare IT News parent HIMSS called on Congress to act in three ways.
Richard Clarke, cybersecurity expert and former national security advisor to three U.S. presidents – will keynote the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum Dec. 1-3 in Boston.
The three-day event is designed to equip CISOs, CIOs and other senior healthcare IT leaders with business-critical solutions and best practices to safeguard their data.
via David Varisano Security stars to headline Privacy & Security Forum
Just last week Salesforce.com made a big move into healthcare and this week third-party vendors are bringing products to market that work with Salesforce's platforms.
Two companies unveiled new cloud-based products this week. DataMotion on Wednesday launched an email encryption offering while FairWarning unwrapped data protection and governance capabilities.
via David Varisano Third-party vendors unveil security tools for Salesforce
Kaiser Permanente engages 45 percent of its more than 9 million members through online portals, which provide secure physician-patient email and access to KP HealthConnect, a comprehensive electronic health record to empower patients to manage care.
via David Varisano Patient portals more useful than many realize
If only the care team had talked among themselves, the crises surrounding a patient eventually diagnosed with Ebola at a Texas Health Resources hospital last year, might have been averted, a panel of experts called in to review the case has concluded.
The expert panel brought in by top leaders at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas to assess the Ebola virus events that began Sept. 25, 2014, after Thomas Eric Duncan arrived at the emergency department at the hospital.
Does anyone remember the Clapper? Y'know: "Clap on! (clap, clap) Clap Off! (clap, clap)." With the sound-activated Clapper, you simply needed to clap your hands to turn on and off a light – thus eliminating the exhausting task of getting up from the couch and walking across the room to flip the light switch.
Dr. David Varisano 