Hospital safety checklist is prioritized nowadays, but the question remains, is it enough? Are all measures taken to restrict intruders? Needless to say, hospitals require safety and security measures strongly. Despite having so many patients and so much medical data, security concerns are lower at any hospital, which makes it an easy target for possible […]
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Often considered one of if not the most important challenges to overcome in healthcare, the topic of establishing an increase in accurate patient identification and data matching has seen a significant rise in urgency over the past year as more health IT initiatives are launched. Despite the recent collaboration by the ONC and other entities on recommendations […]
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Being Proactive vs. Reactive It’s often said that the true distinction between being proactive versus reactive is the difference between responding and reacting. Response is rooted in choice. Reaction is ruled by habit. Proactive thinking looks to the future and is generally considered the anticipation of an event that is known to happen whereas reactive thinking […]
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Common sense would dictate that information contained in your medical record is confidential and health care providers should be obligated to keep it safe and secure, right? Not so fast. A recent Bloomberg News article reports that States from Washington to New York are putting patient privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person’s […]
Read moreInteresting article about a recent deployment of biometric patient identification technology at Baptist Health Hospital in Florida in today’s news: https://fcnews.tv/SMdnU5 The article quotes the Director of Information Systems as saying the motivation for using biometric patient identification is: “to stop identity theft and ID Card sharing.” This we found to be perplexing based on the […]
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