Plataforma Saúde em Diálogo. CONTACT CENTER. GE Healthcare and Intel extend Health Guide to UK. Cardio. Ophtal. Informatização Clínica no SNS. Associação de Mulheres Contra a Violência. Associação Atlântica de Apoio ao Doente Machado-Joseph. Associação Coração Amarelo - Instituto Particular de Solidariedade Social. What is e-prescribing (electronic prescribing) ? - Definition from Whatis.com. E-prescribing, or electronic prescribing is a technology framework that allows physicians and other medical practitioners to write and send prescriptions to a participating pharmacy electronically instead of using handwritten or faxed notes or calling in prescriptions.
FAQ: What are the EHR software certification bodies? Procuring a certified electronic health record system (or certifying your own custom EHR software) is the first step to getting money from the federal government's EHR Incentive Programs .
As of March When you register you’ll also receive targeted emails from my team of award-winning editorial writers. Our goal is to bring you the best healthcare IT information from top industry sources. 2011, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has designated six organizations as an Accredited Test and Certification Body. These organizations, known as ONC-ATCBs, are therefore qualified to test and certify EHR systems. Nine Components of a HIPAA Risk Analysis. The Department of Health and Human Services requires organizations to conduct a risk analysis as the first step toward implementing safeguards specified in the HIPAA Security Rule, and ultimately achieving HIPAA compliance.
But what does a risk analysis entail, and what do you absolutely have to include in your report? The HHS Security Standards Guide outlines nine mandatory components of a risk analysis that healthcare organizations and healthcare-related organizations that store or transmit EPHI (electronic protected health information) must include in their document: Scope of the Analysis – Any potential risks and vulnerabilities to the privacy, availability and integrity of EPHI. This includes all electronic media your organization uses to create, receive, maintain or transmit EPHI – portable media, desktops and networks.
HIPAA Risk Analysis Components Looking for HIPAA resources from organizations that have HIPAA policies, procedures and training materials in place? HIPAA Hosting FAQ. Microsoft, ProtonMedia: Free workshop on virtual clinical trials. Press Release: Discover the Innovation Behind Some of the Industry’s First Virtual Clinical Trials ProtonMedia and Microsoft to host workshop at Microsoft’s Technology Center featuring industry leaders discussing the impact of virtual clinical trials LANSDALE, Pa.
–ProtonMedia and Microsoft will be hosting an interactive workshop focused on innovation in clinical trials. The workshop, “Innovation in Clinical Trials,” will be held on Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EST at the Microsoft Technology Center in Malvern, Pa. National electronic health records network gets closer - Nov. 18. An electronic health records network is becoming a reality, as the national attitude towards health IT is shifting towards acceptance.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The ambitious goal of setting up a nationwide, interconnected, private and secure electronic health records system isn't yet a reality -- but we're getting closer. The 2009 Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus bill, set aside more than $20 billion for incentives to health care providers that deploy and meaningfully use certified electronic health records systems in their offices or hospitals. The first incentives are set to go out in the form of $22,000 Medicaid payments to early adopters within the next six months.
Since we're still in the early phases, it's hard to get clear numbers for adoption rates. Prior to the bill, just 17% of physicians' offices and 12% of hospitals had implemented some kind of electronic health records system. The government's solution is to make processes digital and connected. EMDT - Medical Device Software to IEC 62304. Bluetooth Announces Heart Rate and Thermometer Profiles for Next-Generation Medical Devices. Bluetooth may have become a household name because of its game-changing role in consumer electronics, but its impact on the medical device industry, while less publicized, is perhaps more significant.
Contributing to the advancement of such groundbreaking concepts as telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, the technology is now primed to enhance next-generation wireless medical devices for the mobile health market with its Health Thermometer and Heart Rate profiles. Built on Bluetooth v4.0, the recently approved Health Thermometer and Heart Rate profiles were designed to enable wireless monitoring of body temperature and heart rate, respectively. Developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the technology boasts a plethora of potential medical applications.
Testing Requirements - NIST Health IT Standards and Testing. 12/3/10 UPDATE - NIST has published errata for the Approved Test Procedures, Version 1.1.
The errata documents contain technical corrections based on public feedback. Test procedures that have errata issued are noted in the table below. The Approved Test Procedures, Version 1.1, as well as associated erratum, are effective for use in the ONC Temporary Certification Program on October 24, 2010. Descriptions of the specific changes are found in the Version 1.1 Release Notes.. The Version 1.1 update constitutes the final development update to the Approved Test Procedures. Company Timeline. Medical Device Industry Supplier Directory.
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