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Liora Alschuler, CEO of Lantana Consulting Group, talks about the importance of getting data into the health information technology pipeline.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Helen Oscislawski
Peeling Back BCBS’s $1.5 Million HIPAA Settlement Onion
What is the lasting lesson from the storage facility theft of 57 Blue Cross Blue Shield hard drives? Make sure third-party vendors are contractually obligated to cover losses resulting from their negligence. The…
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Question: What should providers consider as they roll out CPOE? Answer: It's really “big bang” versus gradual implementation. For the "big bang" approach, you need to be a large organization with a strong informatics staff and plenty of resident physicians. A teaching hospital will likely have these advantages. A community hospital may need to take things…
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Dirk Stanley, MD, MPH, is chief medical informatics officer for Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass.
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