Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. Holding health care back is the lack of digitization in general, and then the under-investment in user-centered design to engage and then retain patients beyond an initial download or visit to a patient portal. It still does.

Electronic Medical Records 174

Electronic Medical Records Health Insurance Medicaid Medicaid 174

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery , identify POCUS as a convenient tool that reduces the number of imaging tests required to achieve a diagnosis and is able to circumvent barriers that have prevented certain populations from being able to access medical imaging in the past.

Ransomware 110

Ransomware Electronic Medical Records Hospitals HIPAA 110

AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, nursing notes disagreed: a nurse documented that the patient withdrew his lower extremities (LE) to stimuli on day 7, but not on day 8. On hospital day 9, a nurse documented “unable to move BLE [bilateral LE], sensation intact, team aware.” Read the article in full.

Department of Veterans Affairs 59

Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals Compliance Nurses 59

HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

Ransomware 120

Ransomware HIPAA Hospitals Compliance 120

AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Prevalence of Sharing Access Credentials in Electronic Medical Records To summarize an abstract published by PMC (Public Med Central) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, it was found that to prevent data leakage, many countries have created regulations regarding medical data accessibility.

HIPAA 52

HIPAA Compliance Electronic Medical Records Governance 52

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) , or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.

COVID-19 52

COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Hospitals Governance 52