MeditechTalk, a global online Meditech Community http://www.MeditechTalk.com Issues... collaboration... solutions... success! en-us admin@MeditechTalk.com 2008-11-20T07:44:46+00:00 hourly 1 2008-11-20T07:44:46+00:00 The Importance Of Protecting Your Health Records From Medical Identity Theft http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=66
"The crime occurs when someone uses a person's name and sometimes other parts of their identity -- such as insurance information -- without the person's knowledge or consent to obtain medical services or goods," said Laurinda B. Harman, PhD, RHIA, associate professor and chair of the health information management department at Temple University's College of Health Professions.

"A person's identity information can also be used to make false claims for medical services or goods. This is not a common event, but patients need to be aware of it," Harman said...]]> 66@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 Posted by admin Privacy concerns cast pall over Microsoft's medical site debut http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=65 SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site last week for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.

From the consumer's point of view, Microsoft's HealthVault site is part library, part filing cabinet and part fax machine for an individual or family's medical records and notes.

The free site, healthvault.com, is tied to a health information search engine the software company launched at the end of last month. It gives users a repository for health-related data such as medical histories, immunizations and records from the doctor's office and hospital visits as well as measurements from devices such as heart rate monitors...]]> 65@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 Posted by admin 22.5 Million Dollars For US Nationwide Health Information Network http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=64
The move is part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) plan announced by the HHS last year. According to the HHS website Health IT, the overall government strategy for Health IT is to:]]> 64@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-10-10T09:28:10+00:00 Posted by admin HIPAA violation to view own records http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=63 Because of HIPAA violations involving Ivinson Memorial Hospital employees viewing inappropriate medical records, one hospital employee has been terminated, one has been placed on a three-day suspension, one has been placed on a 24-hour suspension and four have received written reprimands since Aug. 28.
HIPAA regulations state that health care industry workers with access to their own records are not legally able to view them unless there is a clinical need to do so or unless the records are accessed through the proper channels. With the installation of new MEDITECH tracking software at IMH, employees are finding this out the hard way...

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Following the acquisition, all JJWild associates will join Perot Systems...]]> 62@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-08-21T17:23:47+00:00 Posted by admin Senators introduce stringent health records privacy bill http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=61 A new bill introduced in the Senate today by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) would place stringent restrictions on disclosures of personal health information and clear up at least some of the confusion surrounding federal privacy rules.

If passed, the new bill would not supplant the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 but would require the Health and Human Services Department to revise HIPAA rules, according to a six-page summary the senators issued.

“In America today, if you have a health record, you have a health privacy problem,” Leahy said in a statement. He heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is expected to consider the bill.
]]> 61@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-07-19T12:20:00+00:00 Posted by admin It's called E-Health http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=59 Technology has changed the way we shop, bank, work, learn and even communicate with each other. It is also changing how health-care services are delivered.

Health care, at its core, is an innovative enterprise whether it’s new developments in the lab or improving patient care services, notes Jeff Doleweerd, the e-Health lead with the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integrated Network. One area it had fallen behind is technology, but that’s quickly changing.

E-health is a concept that marries medicine and technology and it’s changing the way healthcare is being delivered.

One of the most practical ideas is the electronic patient record. “It’s no small feat,” said Doleweerd, “but the benefits are sizable.” ...

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Hospitals and clinics in the Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas areas have invested heavily in new technology and new construction in the past year. Some of those investments include:

* Scanners: All of the hospitals except St. Mary's Hospital in Rogers have purchased 64-slice computed tomography systems at a cost of $1 million or more per CT scanner. Officials for St. Mary's said a 64-slice scanner is being considered for their new hospital on Interstate 540.

* Records. The hospitals are converting to electronic medical records systems at a cost of several million dollars over the next couple of years.

* Robotics. In December, Northwest Health System unveiled a Da Vinci Surgical System. The about $1.5 million system utilizes robotic-assisted surgeries for prostate and other urologic surgeries...
]]> 58@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-04-19T09:10:48+00:00 Posted by admin 1 year old today, April 6, 2007! http://www.MeditechTalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 It's our BIRTHDAY!

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A good mammogram reader may do just as well at spotting cancers without expensive new computer systems often used for a second opinion, a new study suggests.

Computerized mammography, now used for about a third of the nation's mammograms, too often finds harmless spots that lead to false scares, researchers found. That conflicts with earlier studies showing benefit from the systems.

"It looks like computer-aided detection might not be working like people thought it would," said lead researcher Dr. Joshua Fenton, a family doctor at the University of California-Davis, in Sacramento...]]> 56@http://www.MeditechTalk.com News 2007-04-04T15:19:17+00:00 Posted by admin