Meaningful Use has pushed healthcare organizations to jump on the bandwagon and implement robust electronic medical records. This is an excellent push towards completely digitizing a patient’s medical record and allowing information to easily accessible, shared, and oh, yes, meaningful. However, there will always be information that needs to be part a medical record but it can’t fit into discrete data. Whether this is a patient’s insurance card, or past records that the patient only has on … [Read more...] about Network Scanning Makes Electronic Medical Records Work
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This is Why You Need to Join a Nurses Support Group Online
As nurses, we give so much of ourselves to our patients. This is just one reason you need to join a nurses support group online. There are so many more reasons too. Online Nurses Support Group Technology has seriously grown leaps and bounds, hasn't it? Long gone are the times when you had to call someone to remind them to pick up milk or to set up your appointments. Now you can just update a list, send a message, or even a tweet. In many ways, technology has made life so much easier.This … [Read more...] about This is Why You Need to Join a Nurses Support Group Online
18 Patient Identifiers HIPAA Defines as Off Limits
Hospitals and healthcare providers every start shaking in their boots when they think of social media and healthcare. They freak out about the possibility of a HIPAA violation. But the fear that is struck in many of their hearts is really unneeded. There are 18 patient identifiers that are off limits when it comes to blogging and things of the like. Omit These 18 Identifiers When Blogging About Patient Care 1. Names; 2. All geographical subdivisions smaller than a State, including street … [Read more...] about 18 Patient Identifiers HIPAA Defines as Off Limits
Why HIPAA Laws Exist: Careless Disposal of PHI, RX pads, and Medications
While browsing the Goodwill tweeter @Potato_Chip found a box of Journal of American Medical Associations. A sweet find for an MD/PhD student right? Unfortunately, it turned out to be bittersweet for the healthcare industry and patient advocates everywhere. In that very same box were discarded drugs, prescription pads, and ultra sound records. Many of these records, including ultrasounds, had patient identifiers or protected health information (PHI) intact.Finding any of … [Read more...] about Why HIPAA Laws Exist: Careless Disposal of PHI, RX pads, and Medications