Guests: Mac McMillan – Chair, HIMSS Privacy & Security Task Force

Curious to know more about how to improve data security at your healthcare facility? Confused about the new HIPAA guidelines regulating personal health information (PHI)? Want to know which data security technologies are worth reviewing?

Healthcare IT Data Security – An Overview of Privacy, Compliance, and Technology Options

Guests: Mandi Bishop – Principal, Adaptive Project Solutions

Big data in healthcare has the potential to radically alter individual and population health management but the ability to leverage it is often dictated by finances, resource availability, and a lack of universal standards. What are the main barriers to collecting and mining big data, what potential does it have to change the healthcare industry, and what is the implication of big data on privacy?

Big Data in Healthcare – How it Promises to Reshape the Industry

Guests: Nancy Farrington, Enterprise Master Patient Index Administrator, Main Line Health

Patient identification in healthcare continues to be one of the most important and pressing issues due to it’s significant impact on the ability to provide accurate and effective patient care. What is the #1 challenge in patient identification, the real risks of inaccurate patient identification defined, and patient identification issues across HIEs.

Patient Identification in Healthcare – Where do we stand

Guests: Jim Shiere – National Institute for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)

The digitalization of the world economy has created demand for privacy enhancing identity solutions that support civil liberties and improve security. Running parallel to the need for trusted identities in cyberspace is the need for identities to be interoperable so that individuals can manage multiple credentials and choose which to use for a particular transaction or activity. The demand to establish a more secure identity ecosystem requires solutions to be user friendly and convenient including equitable access to the tools that establish this online identity credential for everyone, not only the affluent.

Establishing a Trusted Identity in Cyberspace

Guests: Beth Just – President and CEO, Just Associates

Widely considered one of the biggest threats to patient safety, the problem of duplicate medical records and overlays continues to have negative consequences on the healthcare industry. What are the implications of duplicates and overlays, how many actually exist in a typical healthcare facility, what impact do they have on the revenue cycle, and what technologies exist to help eliminate them and prevent more from being created?

The Impact of Duplicate Medical Records and Overlays on the Healthcare Industry

Guests: Sharon Canner – Director of Public Policy, CHIME

Improving patient identification and patient data matching are arguably two of the most important issues in healthcare that require immediate attention and swift action. What technologies are emerging to address these issues, what are the pros and cons of establishing a National Patient Identifier (NPI), what have been the shortfalls of health IT adoption, and what are the top health IT initiatives that healthcare CIOs need to address?

Patient Identity and the Role of Modern CIOs

Guests: Dr. Neal Kaufman – DPS Health

The topic of patient engagement is often defined as people actively involved in their health and health care to achieve better outcomes and lower costs and there is a growing body of evidence which demonstrates that patients who are more actively involved in their health care experience better health outcomes and incur lower costs. As a result, what we are seeing is that many public and private health care organizations are employing strategies to better engage patients, such as educating them about their conditions and involving them more fully in making decisions about their care. “Patient activation” is a term that refers to a patient’s knowledge, skills, ability, and willingness to manage his or her own health and care. “Patient engagement” is often defined as a broader concept that combines patient activation with interventions designed to increase activation and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly. Patient engagement is one strategy to achieve the “triple aim” of healthcare which is defined as improved health outcomes, better patient care, and lower costs. Furthermore, Meaningful use stage 2 rules foster patient engagement in a simple way: Physicians and hospitals receiving federal EHR incentive payments must motivate at least 5% of patients to view, download or transmit their digitized health data.

Learn more about how to identify and interpret effective patient engagement, physician reactions to the rise in patient engagement, how mobile devices, apps, and wearables stand to impact patient engagement, and more!

Patient Engagement in Healthcare Part II

The World Health Organization recently stated: “There is now overwhelming evidence that significant numbers of patients are harmed from their healthcare either resulting in permanent injury, increased length of stay (LOS) in hospitals and even death.”* Patient safety in healthcare should always be at the forefront of any hospital initiative but what we have learned over the last decade is that adverse events occur not because bad people intentionally hurt patients but rather that the system of health care today is so complex that the successful treatment and outcome for each patient depends on a range of factors, not just the competence of an individual health-care provider.

Patient Safety in Healthcare With  Jim Bialick, – President of The Patient Safety Network

Guests: Ray Madril – Senior Director of Innovation and Engineering, Healthcast

The negative impact of data breaches and the need to implement stronger data security has spurred a rise in adopting single sign-on (SSO) technology in healthcare. One of the major advantages of single sign-on is a reduction in the number of passwords staff needs to remember. Once staff logs in to an application that’s part of the single sign-on system, they can access any other application supported by single sign-on without signing in again. However, SSO solutions are designed to not only provide a higher level of data security, but to also create workflow efficiencies and alleviate the stress and pressures of adhering to strict security protocols by providing a seamless sign on experience for clinical staff.

Implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) in Healthcare

Guests: Ram Ravi, – Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan’s Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) practice

Frost and Sullivan recently published a report called the “5-year Opportunity Analysis of the Global Iris Recognition Market” so we invited Ram Ravi, an Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan’s Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) practice to discuss the results of his research on our latest podcast.

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