Electronic Health Record

Respiratory Therapist Convicted in HIPAA Criminal Case

Prosecutors Alleged Patient Information Used to Seek Drugs By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Healthcare Info Security In a rare criminal case involving a HIPAA violation, a federal jury in Ohio has convicted a former respiratory therapist of wrongly obtaining individually identifiable health information. Prosecutors claimed the therapist was using the information for seeking, obtaining or…

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DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs

By Christopher Moraff for The Daily Beast The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah’s…

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Thousands Of NFL Players’ Medical Records Stolen From Skins Trainer

By Barry Petchesky for DEADSPIN In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would…

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Analyzing Eight Months of ICD-10

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Teachers know there are two kinds of students. Student A studies and does their assigned reading throughout the whole semester, earning extra credit where they can. When the final exam rolls up, they’re…

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Highmark to Pay More for Better Diagnostic Documentation

By Joseph Goedert for Health Data Management Highmark Inc., a Blues plan serving Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia, is giving physicians a financial incentive to increase documentation of diagnostic codes in the electronic health record of patients insured under Medicare Advantage or health insurance exchange programs. Too often, physicians enter a core diagnosis following a…

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Revealed: Google AI Has Access to Huge Haul of NHS Patient Data

By Hal Hodson for New Scientist It’s no secret that Google has broad ambitions in healthcare. But a document obtained by New Scientist reveals that the tech giant’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service goes far beyond what has been publicly announced. The document – a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and…

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Jury Awards Epic Close to $1B in Trade Secrets Infringement Case

By David Raths for HCI | Healthcare Informatics Suite involved Tata Consultancy Services work on Epic implementation at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Ore. A federal jury has awarded Epic Systems nearly $1 billion in damages after finding that an Indian conglomerate had stolen trade secrets from the EHR vendor, according to a story on the…

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Words Matter: Best Practices for Dictating in an EMR Setting

By Selena Chavis for For The Record Vol. 28 No. 4 P. 14 As HIT matures, dictation and transcription models continue to evolve. It’s a situation being closely monitored by health care organizations concerned about the fallout from potential productivity losses and physician outcry over clunky EMR documentation workflows. To combat these fears, many facilities are…

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Time to Capture Data in a Way Not Burdensome to MDs

By Mark Hagland for HCI | Healthcare Informatics Rush University Medical Center CMIO Brian Patty, M.D., shares his perspectives on physician documentation reform As the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) has moved towards universalization, one of the unfortunate unintended consequences of the rapid shift to electronic form for patient records has been that of…

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