Frost made their annual Customer Value Enhancements awards. A couple interesting companies made the cut. MedWave is a maker of non invasive direct arterial blood pressure monitoring.
[Hat tip Health IT World News]
Web site surveys can be amusing, and one on Mobile Health Data's site
today caught my attention. Here's the set up (it's not really a
question, is it?):
Enabling
medical devices, such as infusion pumps, electrocardiograph machines
and glucometers, to wirelessly send data to a patient's medical record
or to a physician:
Why wireless? Well, unless you're in the OR or […]
Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers answers the question, “What do medbloggers do?” with this weeks installment of Grand Rounds. Check it out!
AMR Research just released a horizontal market survey (i.e., looking at all industries) on RFID adoption. Information Week has a summary here
suggesting RFID was not “ready for prime time.” Isn't that the
definition of any market prior to mainstream adoption? Hospitals
looking to use RFID for asset or patient tracking really don't face the
kind of standards issues […]
Check this out if you're implementing a medications safety program. The Massachusetts Coalition on for the Prevention of Medical Errors
has developed a whole program from recommendations, implementation best
practices, measuring results, and a toolkit. Pretty cool.
[Hat tip Premier Safety Share]
Off topic, but this is just such an incredible and indepth glimpse into the investigation that I could not resist. This link
(PDF file) is to a DOJ presentation summarizing their case. This is a
tale of institutionalized fraud, orders to destroy records, a
whistleblower (who collects 30% of damages), and secretly recorded conversations,
ending with the realization, “we're […]
David Roberts, from HIMSS Government Relations, emailed me today to say
that their HIT Legislation Cross-walk would be updated this week.
Following are the links that he included to specific legislation.
HR 747: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h747ih.txt.pdf
HR 2234: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h2234ih.txt.pdf
S. 16: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s16is.txt.pdf
S. 544: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s544is.txt.pdf
S. 1223: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s1223is.txt.pdf
S. 1227: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s1227is.txt.pdf
S. 1356: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s1356is.txt.pdf
S. 1418: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s1418is.txt.pdf
First industry asked the government to get involved to help drive EMR
adoption. Now, in a classic example of “be careful what you ask for,” CMS
has announced that they will provide free Vista and VistaOffice
software to physicians participating in Medicare — which is virtually
all physicians. (The CMS page on Vista is here.)
This is a dramatic announcement, […]
Nice short article in Healthcare Informatics on WLAN security. Written by Bob Hedglen at UPMC, he details the risks and provides a nice summary of the requirements:
We decided our WLAN installation required a documented security policy,
use of data encryption, authentication of every device and user,
verification of ongoing policy enforcement and security incident
reporting. The system had […]
Earlier today there was the CMS' teleconference on HIPAA enforcement
(you know, your name in the papers, fines, lots of quality time with lawyers). It was a great session with
lots of good reference info and guidance. (You can download the
presentation here.) All that talk about enforcement got me to thinking…
HIPAA privacy and security regulations
apply to […]
