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Join me on Friday afternoon for the Military EHR Conference in Arlington, VA

The Military Electronic Health Records Conference is being held at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn in Arlington, VA on Thursday and Friday this week. Military EHRs are a complicated topic and I have been invited to deliver a talk called Using Connected Medical Devices to Improve Military EHRs & Integrating Social Media into Military EHRs. I will be presenting on Friday afternoon at 1:45p but should be around at the conference before and after as well if you’d like to meetup.

Shahid N. Shah

Guest Article: Do’s and Dont’s of RFID in Hospitals

I’ve written and presented recently on a number of “Do’s and Dont’s” around medical device integration, mobile health, EHRs, and various related topics. Some of you have asked if I could do something similar on the subject of RFID. Since I’m not an expert on the topic, I reached out to Yedidia Blonder, a Product Manager at Vizbee RFID Solutions. Vizbee offers RFID applications for multiple industries, including a patient and hospital asset tracking application for healthcare institutions.

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Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM means new opportunities for Medical Device and non-traditional Health IT Vendors

Last week at the HIMSS Conference ONC announced Meaningful Use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule-Making. Many of you have asked me for a quick opinion of what it means to health IT and medical device vendors so I wanted to take a few minutes to share my initial thoughts. Meaningful Use Stage 1 was mostly about setting the bare minimum electronic health record functional requirements and pegging a “floor” for data capture; it had many required elements a few optional elements for care providers to utilize (but vendors had to make even the optional functionality available for use).

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Do’s and Don’ts of Telemedicine

This is the next post in my series of Do’s and Don’ts Healthcare IT. As we all know, some of our most important citizens live in rural settings, small cities, the countryside, or remote areas. These areas have smaller populations and less direct access to vital healthcare resources. In the past 15 years or so we’ve made some great strides in remotely accessible healthcare; these offerings, called telemedical tools, provide important clinical care at a distance.

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Do’s and Don’ts of mobile/mHealth strategy for hospitals and HCPs

I recently wrote, in Do’s and Don’ts of hospital health IT, that you shouldn’t make long-term decisions on mobile app platforms like iOS and Android because the mobile world is still quite young and the war between Apple, Microsoft, and Google is nowhere near being resolved. A couple of readers, in the comments section (thanks Anne and DDS), asked me to elaborate mobile and mHealth strategy for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and hospitals.

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Do’s and Don’ts of hospital health IT

Last year I started a series of “Do’s and Dont’s” in hospital tech by focusing on wireless technologies. Folks asked a lot of questions about do’s and dont’s in other tech areas so here’s a list of more tips and tricks: Do start implementing cloud-based services. Don’t think, though, that just because you are implementing cloud services that you will have less infrastructure or related work to do. Cloud services, especially in the SaaS realm, are “application-centric” solutions and as such the infrastructure requirements remain pretty substantial – especially the sophistication of the network infrastructure.

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Guest Article: Policy management software for hospitals and clinics helps with change management

Complex healthcare IT projects like EHR implementations, ICD-10 migration, and related IT initiatives require sophisticated change management practices and policies. Given the people-centric nature of policy development, those of us in IT usually assume that change and policy management can’t be automated, usually to our detriment. To help understand how that’s not quite correct, I reached out to the developers of PolicyStat, which provides policy and procedure software for hospitals, labs, outpatient clinics and integrated health networks.

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Guest Article: Actionable advice on how to make tangible progress in ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration

The CMS-required ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration requirement is creeping upon us and I’ve been getting lots of questions from readers about what steps technology vendors and healthcare providers should be taking in getting ready for the undertaking. To help get some actionable advice I reached out to Steve Dion, a senior marketing manager for GE Healthcare, and Kim Lorusso a product marketing manager for GE Healthcare. They have been successful in helping many customers make progress on their ICD-10 migration by using GE’s Centricity Business solution for ICD-10; it is something worth checking out and you can follow them on Twitter at @GEHealthcareIT.

Shahid N. Shah

How to manage HIPAA security in a way that actually enhances security and not just fills in documentation

I get lots of questions about HIPAA security these days; especially as EHR firms, hospitals, payers, and startups alike are being asked about their HIPAA policies. My general recommendation is that you should forget about HIPAA at first (it’s a toothless, generally unenforceable, regulation that will never improve security because it is a bureaucratic compliance tool). Instead, you should concentrate on good security practices, good security policies, follow recommended NIST guidance, and then come back and tie in the HIPAA regulations to make sure you don’t miss anything from the privacy side.

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