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Your EMR privacy policy, first and foremost, should be practical
It's not hard to find recent examples of privacy and security at odds with electronic medical records (EMRs). Just this week , for instance, a federal grand jury indicted a former employee of
Practice Fusion CEO on privacy, the cloud and the cost of his EMR solution
Basing your EMR system in the cloud is a "natural, secure fit" for small medical practices -- so says Ryan Howard, whose company, Practice Fusion, just happens to offer a cloud-based EMR package.
Migration of EMR audit logs could be expensive when switching vendors
One of the harsh realities of EMRs built on proprietary databases is that it's often tough and expensive to migrate from one system to another. EMRs are supposed to keep an audit log of when, by whom
The privacy/security tiger doesn't have any teeth
Amid the recent firestorm of debate and controversial regulation aimed at curing the nation's healthcare system, significant effort and focus have been paid to matters of availability of care and to
Consumers, clinicians alike will drive m-health
Some people believe consumers will drive the mobile health "revolution." Others believe the impetus for change is coming from clinicians themselves. And then there's a third opinion: "Both, and for
Laptop theft is No. 1 source of health data breaches
HHS officials last week confirmed what many people have long suspected: Laptop theft is the most common source of health data breaches affecting at least 500 people. Of the 189 breaches reported to
Data breaches costly, but hospital execs say EHRs can prevent leaks
If you think data breaches don't cost hospitals, think again. The impact of a data breach is about $1 million per hospital per year, and the lifetime value of a lost patient is $108,000, according to
Half of providers said to have EMRs, but many docs fear intrusion
Finally, someone in the mainstream media is starting to get it. "There's an argument that we're eventually going to look back at the stimulus bill's investment in electronic medical records as the
With EHR security, there's nothing to fear but fear itself
FierceEMR recently reported on a North Carolina State University study that says it isn't necessarily the unwillingness of stakeholders or cost issues that's impeding the proliferation of EHRs, it's
Privacy concerns hold back wider EHR adoption
This could be considered progress: Researchers at North Carolina State University say that it's not cost or stubbornness that is holding back wider EHR uptake, but rather concerns about privacy from
